So now we're ready to balance and unblock the root chakra. First, let's start with an affirmation. If you're unclear about what an affirmation is, they're positive statements. They can help you to challenge and overcome self sabotaging and negative thoughts and your beliefs. When you repeat them often enough, and believe in them, you can actually start to make positive changes, even if you don't fully believe in them. But you know, it's what you're striving for.

You just fake it till you make it. So the first affirmation for the root chakra is this. I am safe, secure and fully supported. I trust that all as well. really powerful statement because a lot of us don't trust. We don't trust in the process.

We don't trust in the unknown. We don't trust in people's situation. The list goes on. going on. So you don't have to be in a yoga pose to say this affirmation. You can say this affirmation in bed before you get up in the morning throughout the day, whatever it might be.

If you'd like to use this affirmation, like as a meditation pose, you can sit in what's called easy pose. And if you need a little bit of trouble, they don't go down fully. You can always use pillows to prop your knees up for support. So you can sit in this posture if you'd like hands can be placed on your knees, or in a cup right here. Or if you want to do a hand posture, which we call again, withdraw, you can take your thumbs with the tips or your first fingers and place them here. And you can close your eyes if you like.

Or keep them open. I'm safe, secure and fully supported. I trust that all as well. So another tip that you can do for an affirmation was what I tell my clients and what I do as well. Get little sticky pads, write the affirmation on it. And put it next to your bed.

So you see, first thing you wake up in the morning in your bathroom mirror. So you see it again first thing in the morning, maybe on your laptop or computer somewhere in your car. That way, it's a reminder for you all the time. So, step right into it, start trying the root chakra affirmation, and notice what happens. So now let's talk about the grounding technique and why grounding is so important for the root chakra and for your body. Most of us walk around not being grounded, which means we can be frenetic, anxious, not have a lot of clarity.

Nervousness goes along with it as well. That's why it's so important to begin each day and throughout your day noticing how grounded or not grounded that you are. So I'm going to give A few tips that you can do inside your house for grounding and outside your house for grounding. So first of all, you can either get soil or stand for today, I have some sand. So you can use any kind of cardboard box that's right here to put sand in or soil and you can also use just a paper bag or a bucket to put your stand or your soil and so the next thing that I'm going to show you is what you actually do with this sand that's in this box. So now that we have our feet in the box of sand, or you may have soil, try and make sure that the sand and soil is up at least to the ankles, which you're going to do is you're going to close your eyes and slowly bring your awareness down to the soles of your feet.

That might be a little tricky at first, you might only get the awareness down to your knees or down to your ankles, but eventually you'll get down there It's kind of like bringing your eyeballs all the way down to the soles of your feet. So once you do that, for 45 seconds to a minute, close your eyes, bring your awareness down as far as you can get to the soles of your feet. And just notice in that time what happens, you'll feel a pool, like a magnetic pool that wants to bring you in, pull you further down, you'll start to feel some heaviness from the waist down with that gentle loving pool. Then you'll start to feel the nurturing the support the groundedness from Mother Earth, yes, even though I'm inside with my feet in a box of sand, you will feel the pool the ground in this from Mother Earth.

So 45 seconds to 60 seconds you can start but end up doing it from three to five minutes you can really feel grounded. Now you can do this outside which I prefer better because you're right in nature, but if it's cold or it's bad weather, you can do this. Remember you You need to put standard soil in a box in a bucket or just in a bag. When you go outside, stocks off or socks on whatever works for you, bringing your awareness down to the soles of your feet, and feeling that magnetic pool that heaviness from your waist all the way down to your feet 45 seconds to a minute to begin. And then once you really start to feel the pool, stay in it for about three to five minutes. This is a great way for you to get grounded, nurtured and supported by mother.

So now that you have a grounding technique, let's move on to the Kundalini posture and poses just a little bit of background before we actually begin with the postures as they are rooted in Kundalini Yoga. Kundalini is an ancient Sanskrit word. That literally means a coiled snake, an early Eastern religion who Before Buddhism and Hinduism, it was believed that each individual possessed a divine energy at the base of their spine. This energy was thought to be the sacred energy of creation. Kundalini energy is something we are born with. But we must make an effort to uncoil the snake there by putting us in direct contact with the divine, and the divine can be whatever that looks like to you.

Kundalini Yoga is the practice of awakening our higher self, and turning potential energy into kinetic energy. It's an uplifting blend of spiritual and physical practices that also incorporate movement, dynamic breathing techniques, meditation, and the chanting of mantras. As we move through the various poses and our shocker training, what I want you to always remember is that everything can be modified. There is no notion of no pain, no gain. That was the mantra So our posture for the root chakra is something called spinal flexus. And first we're going to start off taking an easy pose.

So easy pose, as you can see is what looks like Indian style. So with easy pose, if your knees hunched up too far and you feel this stream, you can easily get pillows from your home, and you can prop them up to any length that you need. You can either put them this way, have them smushed down or light this way, that helps support the knees and help support the legs as well. So there's a good modification for it. So, spinal flexes, this exercise stimulates and stretches the lower and mid spine and brings the release Kundalini energy along the path of the spine and AIDS with flexibility. So now that you know that you have modifications for your knees, if you also find that for whatever reason Sitting in this post, you need to sit on something, you can easily take a pillow and sit up for extra comfort.

Ah, that feels really good. I think I'll keep it here. So the first thing that we're going to do is you're going to grasp your shins with both hands like this. As you inhale, you're going to flex the spine forward. So it will look like this. I'm going to inhale and flex forward.

What you noticed with this is when I inhale and flex forward, my neck is not going up. My neck is staying just like this. It's staying forward. You don't want it to go up when you flick. So when you inhale it show you again, you're flexing and your chest is coming out. You're not doing this.

Your chin doesn't go up. You keep it straight, you keep it parallel. So again, as you inhale, you're going to flex the spine forward. lead with the chest, you're leading with your heart center, and your Chest without lifting up the chin so it looks like this. Good. Now as you exhale, you're going to flex the spine back, keeping the shoulders relaxed and the head straight, and it looks like this.

I inhale up. And I'm gonna exhale back. Inhale up, exhale back. Notice my chin stays parallel to the floor, inhale up, exhale back. Through this posture, you can either keep your eyes open or closed. For me, I find that closing your eyes really helps to keep you in the moment and in your body so you can feel the many openings and releases that this particular posture gives you.

So you're going to continue rhythmically with the deep breaths for about one to three minutes, or 108 times. If you're a beginner, just start with 60 seconds. Remember, make it easy. So let me show you what this looks like from beginning to end. Did you noticed the way that I ended the pose as I came all the way up, I held the breath for as long as I can. And then I exhale, letting the breath out.

After you're finished, you can place your hands on your knees, close your eyes, and just witness and notice what the body feels like. And that is your Kundalini spinal flex pose for the root chakra.