Realignment Kriya
December 1, 1992
As the planet transitions into the Aquarian Age, polarity increasingly widens the gap between extremes, and it’s easy to get caught up on one side and find ourselves arguing or sinking into emptiness. It does not matter what side we are on, or even that sides exist, but how we face the challenge: Can we regulate and realign ourselves, bring ourselves back to agreement with and into support of ourselves, as needed? Our capacity to thrive depends on this, being fully who we are, and our actions will be the proof of our alignment. This kriya strengthens the nervous system, to bring us into internal coherence, to build grit to maintain our self-alignment in a disregulated, polarized, chaotic world.
1. 20 Second Breath
Posture & Mudra: Sit in Easy Pose (Sukhasana) with a straight spine. Make your left hand into a fist with the thumb straight up and stretched out to your maximum capacity. Keeping the thumb stiff, place this mudra on the chest over your physical heart. Keep your right hand relaxed on the knee.
Breath: Breathe one complete breath, with a brief hold in, every 20 seconds.
Eyes/Drishti: Closed.
Duration: Continue for 11 minutes.
Ending: Immediately begin Exercise 2.
2. Long Breath
Posture & Mudra: Remain in the same posture as Exercise 1.
Breath: Make the breath as long and slow as possible.
Eyes/Drishti: Closed.
Duration: Continue for 7 minutes.
Ending: Immediately begin Exercise 3.
3. Lung Aligner
Posture & Mudra: Sit in Easy Pose (Sukhasana) with a straight spine. Bring both hands into fists with the thumbs sticking straight up and place them on your upper chest.
Movement & Breath:
- Inhale deeply and suspend your breath.
- With the breath held in, lift both mudras up overhead, stretching up strongly with the thumbs pointing up, and then bring them back to the starting position 8 times. Each stretch and return takes about 2 seconds.
- Exhale with the fists on your chest.
- Repeat this sequence 5 times total.
Duration: Continue for 5 repetitions.
Ending: Inhale deeply, exhale, and relax.
4. Forearm Circles
Posture & Mudra: Sit in Easy Pose (Sukhasana) with a straight spine. Bring both hands into Suchi Mudra with the index fingers sticking straight up. With the elbows bent and the upper arms lifted, bring your forearms pointing forward with the palms facing down.
Movement & Breath:
- Begin to make small outward circles with your forearms and hands. As you make these circles, simultaneously move the arms outward in a straight line, until your arms are open wide.
- Then begin to make inward circles with your forearms and hands in a straight line, as you bring your arms back in toward the center.
- Continue moving like this, outward circles moving out to the sides, and inward circles moving back to center. Move quickly, keeping the movement in a straight line.
Duration: Continue for 5 ½ minutes.
Ending: Immediately begin Exercise 5.
Inhale deeply and suspend your breath for 15 seconds. As you hold, squeeze your entire body tightly, vertebra by vertebra from the base of the spine to the top. Exhale.
Repeat this sequence two more times.
5. Bhangra Dance
Posture & Mudra: Come standing up.
Movement & Breath: Dance freely and honestly to Bhangra music.
Suggested Recording: Waheguru – Krishan Remix by DJ Krishan from the album Bhangra Remix: Kundalini Mantra Fusion Mix.
Duration: Continue for 6 ½ minutes.
Ending: Relax.