Energy Medicine Yoga amplifies the benefits of any style or level of yoga you practice, regardless of its style or form. Walker incorporates time-tested techniques from energy-medicine guru Donna Eden alongside traditional poses from classic yoga.
She offers classes to her students on how to regain control over their intuition through simple daily practices that help reawaken it.
she explains. If energy becomes blocked, its manifestation will most often manifest as pain. “Pain is your body’s way of communicating,” she asserts.
What is Energy Medicine?
Every aspect of our being, from physical body parts to mental processes and our spiritual selves, are comprised of energy. EMYoga provides you with a way to harness this power for healing, transformation, vitality and contentment.
Walker notes that blocked energy often takes the form of physical discomfort in our bodies, signaling something is amiss and needing attention. EM Yoga offers simple techniques to clear away this energy blockage and rebalance our nine energy systems so they may function more freely to heal themselves and function at their best.
EM Yoga offers an innovative holistic approach to wellness and healing that addresses all aspects of our lives that have an effect on energy, such as nutrition, diet, beliefs and self-image. Combining ancient healing methods of energy medicine with time-tested yoga traditions EM Yoga uses techniques such as meridians system work, self massage techniques, breathing practices meditation journaling EFT tapping etc to bring about body balance and achieve overall well-being.
Lauren Walker, creator of EM Yoga, has an extraordinary talent for helping people break away from longstanding patterns both physically and emotionally. Drawing upon Donna Eden’s teachings of energy medicine, her work blends yoga with simple energy-work techniques for greater balance, strength, and vitality in everyday life.
Integrating these simple tools into their regular yoga practice, students can unlock energy bodies in ways they may never have experienced without spending additional time on the mat. Walker’s approach, outlined in her two books Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Practice and Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription, assists yoga practitioners in accessing their innate healing intelligence in order to experience peace of mind, confidence, joy and a deeper sense of wellbeing.
Chakras
Energy medicine yoga helps to balance chakras, which are centers of energy within your body. According to ancient Hindu spiritual tradition, chakras gather, assimilate and express life force energy – an invigorated chakra system can make you feel more attuned with life’s force, giving rise to feelings of joy and love; when out-of-balanced chakras leave you vulnerable and fearful.
Chakras play an integral part in your physical, emotional and spiritual health. Chakra balancing practices should not be seen as a replacement for medical care but instead act as an extra healing tool when combined with Western treatments. Many have reported feeling more relaxed and healthier after doing chakra balancing techniques.
There are seven main chakras, located along your spinal column from base to crown of your head. Each chakra corresponds to its own color and controls specific areas of the body; many people associate a particular herb, plant or metal with each chakra. Ayurveda (an Indian traditional wellness practice), offers herbal treatments as well as therapies that aim to balance them.
Utilizing yoga and other techniques to balance the chakras can bring greater insight and wisdom from within yourself. Lauren Walker’s book The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription details how you can integrate chakra balancing practices alongside traditional yoga practice.
Lauren Walker has long been a student of Donna Eden, the creator of Energy Medicine, as a certified practitioner and teaching assistant of Eden Energy Medicine. As such, Lauren created Energy Medicine Yoga as a powerful healing practice integrating chakra knowledge and yoga. Walker believes all physical or mental issues stem from chakra imbalance in your energy system; Energy Medicine Yoga practices aim to restore equilibrium to these energy points to bring you greater wellbeing and joy in your life.
Mudras
Mudras are hand gestures designed to balance the body’s energetic and nervous systems. Simple to perform and offering many advantages depending on which gesture is chosen, mudras may improve concentration, reduce stress levels and boost energy levels – as well as balance the five elements (air, fire, water earth and ether) within your system and facilitate healing.
Integrating these hand positions is known as yoga pranayama or energy medicine. These ancient techniques serve as a bridge between subtle and gross bodies and provide deeper focus to any activity or meditation practice. Teachers and practitioners use them to set an intention, seal an agreement or activate certain energy channels within their bodies – it may even help remove blockages that cause imbalance or imbalance within our systems.
Surya Mudra, one of the most prevalent mudras, should be performed while sitting up with straight spine and touching your ring finger to the base of your thumb. You can practice it any time during your day but particularly in the morning to invigorate energy and boost metabolism and digestion as well as increase inner heat within your body while simultaneously balancing both sides of your brain for greater peace and quiet.
Pranayam, another mudra, has long been recognized to promote healthy pituitary gland function and reduce cortisol levels that have been linked to heart disease. Additionally, this mudra has also been shown to relieve anxiety and depression while strengthening immunity systems and encouraging deeper sleep cycles. Furthermore, it may increase circulation for improved physical as well as mental wellbeing.
Mudras can also provide more advanced practitioners with psychic powers known as Siddhis. Mudras that awaken chakras, Kundalini and prana are especially beneficial; you’ll find these practices in yoga, dance, chanting, spiritual traditions worldwide and EMYoga has brought these techniques together with traditional tools of yoga for maximum strength, health and resilience gains.
Self-Massage
Massage can help relieve muscle tension, but may not address the source of it all. For example, if your neck feels tight to turn without pain when trying to turn your head, this could be caused by a tight muscle pressing on nerves causing discomfort – self-massage may help release any knotted muscle or release knotted knots to reduce both muscular and nerve discomfort.
Self-massage techniques can also be utilized as part of energy medicine yoga to activate the meridian points and chakras responsible for detoxifying and reintegrating natural flow and rhythm of your body. Such techniques include tapping, acupressure holds and neurolymphatic reflex self-massage which can either be integrated into yoga practice as a whole or used on their own – for an enjoyable experience, try practicing these techniques while listening to soothing music or practicing breathing exercises so as not to get stressed out during your experience.
EM Yoga integrates Eden Energy Medicine and yoga, targeting each of the nine body’s energy systems for health, joy and contentment. Walker notes that these systems often become unbalanced or blocked and that pain signals when help is needed from us.
Blockages to energy flow often manifest themselves in mental, emotional or physical challenges – for example, fear into courage (water), anger into assertive action (wood), anxiety into joy (fire), overcompassionation for others into self-love (earth) or grief into surrender/letting go (metal). EM Yoga helps these challenging emotions become more balanced through its Five Element system by channeling these energy blocks into positive qualities that help bring balance back.
EM Yoga can be practiced either independently or integrated into an existing yoga routine to increase its healing powers. It’s easy to learn, accessible to people of any age or fitness level and utilizes Energy Medicine techniques like tapping, acupressure holds and neurolymphatic self-massage that revive the main functions of the body while also calming nervousness and improving overall wellness. Working with nine body energy systems increases strength, health and resilience while teaching how our own bodies have an innate wisdom capable of healing itself with guidance from an expert practitioner.
