Waking Energy: 7 Timeless Practices Designed to Reboot Your Body and Unleash Your Potential

by Jennifer Kries

Overview

Internationally renowned mind-body-spirit innovator and fitness and wellness expert Jennifer Kries offers a groundbreaking synthesis of the greatest wisdom traditions of the East—from QiGong to yoga—to help readers reboot energy reserves and unleash their potential.

Modern life is stressful and depleting. We all want more energy, but choosing among the variety of wellness practices can be overwhelming. Now, with Waking Energy, her life-changing wellness program, you don’t have to. Instead, Waking Energy features seven distinct practices that can either stand alone as their own complete rituals, or as parts of a whole, including: QiGong • Kundalini Yoga • Yin Yoga • Vinyasa Yoga • Five Tibetans • Pilates • Inner Smile • Healing Sounds • Meditation.

Combining the best of Western athleticism, Eastern philosophies, and ancient practices from the greatest wisdom traditions, Waking Energy invites you to develop a level of energy mastery that will empower, enliven, enlighten and engender true transformation in your health, spiritual richness, and longevity and:

• develop the body you’ve always dreamed of;
• liberate the hidden power of your mind;
• find the peace of mind you crave;
• unleash focus and concentration;
• master the tools to live your very best and longest life.

Each chapter focuses on one tradition, succinctly explaining the historical background of the practice; its philosophy; the relevant exercises and movement sequences (illustrated with photographs of Jennifer demonstrating the postures)—and includes a quick reference guide for daily practice. Jennifer also offers step-by-step advice for combining the techniques to truly transform your health, fitness, spiritual insight, and longevity.

With simplicity, clarity, and grace, Waking Energy shows you how to experience a joyful connection to yourself and tap into an astonishing reserve of power to create your healthiest, most vibrant self.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062360113
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/11/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Jennifer Kries is an integrated wellness and fitness expert, an author, a speaker, and an internationally renowned mind-body-spirit innovator. Her award-winning The Method Series DVDs have sold over 15 million units worldwide. She lives in San Diego, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part 1

1 The Way of Ways 3

2 The Breath of Life 35

3 Your Waking Energy Journey 55

Part 2

4 Awaken and Play: Qigong 75

5 Unleash and Transform: Kundalini Yoga 129

6 Your Own Fountain of Youth: The Tibetan Rites 173

7 Empower and Flow: Pilates 197

8 Go Deep, Open, and Energize: Yin Yoga 221

9 The Power of Love: Inner Smile and Cosmic Healing Sounds 277

10 Moving into Stillness: Meditation 317

Practice Menu: Seven Ways in Seven Days 341

Acknowledgments 343

Editorial Reviews

06/19/2017
Kries, an integrated wellness and fitness expert known for her popular Pilates videos (The Method Series), was a ballet dancer when she sustained a serious injury that led to her discovery of Pilates. The practice rehabilitated her body and awakened her to the realization that there are many paths to healing. In this illuminating and detailed book, she presents seven practices for energizing and strengthening the body while calming the mind, including qigong, kundalini yoga, the five Tibetan rites, Pilates, yin yoga, inner smile, and cosmic healing sounds (“a little-known, esoteric” inner-alchemy practice she learned from Taoist master Mantak Chia). Her accounts of her personal experiences complement each approach, bringing the sometimes complex instructions to life. For example, while on retreat in Costa Rica, Kries happened upon a dashing yogi who was spinning with palm fronds in his hands. She learned that the man was 66 years old and had been performing the Tibetan rites—for youth, vigor, and longevity—daily for decades. Kries maintains that the combination of the seven waking energy methods provides “a unique synergy of ancient teachings” that will help readers reduce stress and energize their lives. The clarity of her instructions is the hallmark of this rich and interesting text. 165 color photos. (June)

Publishers Weekly