Base of Your Creative Capacity for Life

Kriya for Vitality and Creativity

May 18th, 1993

This sequence is designed to awaken your creative potential and enhance your overall well-being. Through a combination of dynamic postures, breathwork, and mudras, you’ll stimulate your energy flow, strengthen your core, and cultivate youthful vitality.

Illustration of Elaine in Easy pose with hands in active buddhi mudra with arrows

1. Wrist Twists

Posture & Mudra: Sit in Easy Pose (Sukhasana). Bring your hands by the shoulders with the palms facing forward. Lock your pinky fingers down with the thumbs in Active Bhuddi Mudra, with the rest of the fingers straight up.

Movement & Breath: Twist your hands back and forth rapidly while vigorously pumping your navel with Breath of Fire.

Duration: Continue for 3 minutes.

Ending: 

  • Repeat this entire sequence two more times.
  • Take a deep breath. Hold the breath for 20 seconds while twisting the hands back and forth as you pull your navel in. Squeeze every muscle of the body.
  • Exhale powerfully through your mouth, with Cannon Fire.

2. Open the Ribcage

Posture & Mudra: Sit in Easy Pose (Sukhasana). Make fists around your thumbs, placing them on the mounds below your pinkie fingers. Bend your elbows and raise your forearms and fists to shoulder level in front of your chest.

Movement & Breath: Inhale and squeeze your shoulder blades together, pulling your elbows back; then exhale as you return to the starting position. Move at a rapid pace, aiming for 108 repetitions per minute, and breathe heavily.

Duration: Continue for 3 minutes.

Ending: 

  • Repeat this sequence 2 more times.
  • Inhale deeply and completely. Pull the elbows back, and hold your breath for 10 seconds, while pulling your navel in. Squeeze all your muscles tightly. 
  • Exhale powerfully through your mouth in a Cannon Fire.

Illustration of Elaine in Easy pose with hands in fists.
Illustration of Elaine in Easy pose with hands up above head.

3. Torso Bends

Posture & Mudra: Sit in Easy Pose (Sukhasana) with the arms raised straight overhead, palms facing each other.

Movement & Breath: Keeping your arms overhead and parallel, slowly bend to the left side as far as you can, then return to center. Then bend to the right side as far as you can. Maintain a Breath of Fire throughout the movement. In the last minute, move as fast as you can.

Duration: Continue for 3 minutes.

Ending: 

  • Repeat this sequence two more times.
  • Inhale deeply and hold your breath for 20 seconds while bending to the left and right. 
  • Come back to center and exhale forcefully through your mouth with Cannon Fire.