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Step 1
Start in a cross-legged sitting position with a straight back. Close your eyes and focus your attention to your breathing.
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Step 2
Keep your arms at your sides, with palms facing up, inhale and slowly float arms up over your head until your hands touch. Exhale through your nose and let arms float down.
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Step 3
Continue this exercise for one minute or until you start to feel your body heating up.
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Step 1
Come to all fours, arms aligned with shoulders, knees aligned with hips.
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Step 2
Lift your head and inhale through your nose and arch your back, like a cat stretching.
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Step 3
To perform cow pose, exhale through your nose and lower your head, round your shoulders up and contract your belly.
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Step 4
Alternate the cat stretch and the cow pose until you feel your muscles begin to warm and loosen.
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Step 1
Sit in a cross-legged position, spine straight, your hands placed on your knees, palms facing up with index finger and thumb touching. Close your eyes.
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Step 2
Try to quiet your mind of any thoughts and focus your attention to the third-eye chakra, the energy center between your eyes.
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Step 3
Chant the word OM as many times as you can. See if you can meditate for 20 minutes or longer.
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Step 1
Rest on your back. Arms, palms facing up and legs, feet relaxed in Dead Man's pose. Release all tension in your mind and body.
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Step 2
Close your eyes and focus on relaxing each part of your body moving down from your face to your shoulders, arms, chest, stomach, hips, buttocks and legs.
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Step 3
Lie in Dead Man's pose for three to five minutes, being mindful of keeping the body relaxed.
