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- Satnam and welcome back to our health series.
Today we're gonna work on the eye
and predominantly relaxing the eyes,
if they're very tired and there is pain.
I suffer from this all the time,
I have six monitors at work.
I'm constantly staring at something flashing.
And when I come home, my eyes are just in so much pain.
So I find that this actually really helps relax them
but it has other very numerous benefits,
it works energetically as well, works on the optic nerve,
helps with the body rebalance and also master your breath.
So we're gonna come, if you can,
and only if you can, please don't feel that this is a must.
We're gonna come into lotus pose.
So you can come in full lotus,
you can come in half lotus or you can just sit in easy pose,
it's up to you, whatever you feel like today.
I usually prefer go deeper,
simply because it locks my back
and really exaggerates the benefit of the pose.
Find a good natural balance,
whatever makes you feel good today
we're not gonna stay here for too long.
Bring the hands in Gyan Mudra
and place them on your knees.
Now, you can do this for three minutes
which we're gonna do today.
We can extend it for 11 minutes and if you really enjoy it
and feel that this is something
that you can carry on forward,
you can come up to 30 minutes.
So start with three and see how you go.
But so you know, you can extend it as long as you need to
so that we can really address the muscle.
So spine is straight,
chin is slightly tucked in,
shoulders are relaxed,
and you're gonna curl the tongue in your mouth, upwards.
So like the tongue comes up
and touches the upper palate.
So as you curl the tongue, you're gonna suck on the tongue,
so there's a gentle sucking motion.
So the tongue is like this,
that's your tongue
you curl it and you'll press it above on the upper palate.
And then you close your mouth
and you suck on it,
like a lollipop.
As you hold this,
focus in the mouth.
The gaze of the eyes
when they are closed would be on the third eye
between the eyebrows.
And here, we're gonna do a breath
which is long and deep, so nothing too dramatic.
But as we inhale, we're gonna squeeze the root clock.
So the sex organs, the anus and the lower abs,
the whole pelvic floor squeezes gently
while you are inhaling.
And when you exhale, you release the whole body.
When we are inhaling, we also mentally
chant the mantra, sat
and on the exhale, nam.
So everything comes together very naturally, very easy.
Roll the tongue upwards,
suck on it now.
Create that vacuum in the mouth,
point the eyes at the third eye.
Let's begin long deep breathing
with gentle squeeze of the root lock and release
and inhaling, sat
and exhaling, nam
mentally chanting.
Let's begin.
(gentle music)
Now, gently, gently release the tongue,
soften the mouth.
Just relax here for a second.
And we ready, open the eyes,
our fresh new eyes
with clarity, with better vision
and just really enjoy it.
We're enjoying the feeling of freshness that comes with it.
Beautiful, thank you so much for joining,
hope you've enjoyed, hope you've learned something
that's gonna be useful for your daily life,
and I'll see you in our next class.
Satnam.
(zen music)