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EXERCISE: Resting Back Into Your Power with Cathleene Cienfuegos | Inner Edge
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🎧 This is a guided embodiment and energy practice from the Inner Edge Podcast.
Cathleene Cienfuegos is a tantra teacher and conscious evolution guide who helps people reconnect with their innate wisdom through somatic intelligence and embodiment. This practice helps you rest back into your own power, move energy through your body from your feet to your crown, and notice what becomes available when you stop performing and simply allow.
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So for this meditation, you're gonna find a really comfortable chair to sit in. And you're just gonna take a seat. And when you take that seat, just rest back. And don't try to hold any part of yourself up. If you have your legs crossed, go ahead and uncross them. If you have your arms crossed, go ahead and uncross your arms and take a nice deep breath. Feel your feet on the floor and just bring your awareness to your feet for a couple of breaths. And begin to notice with your feet on the floor any areas of tension in your belly, in your shoulders, in your chest, in your face, and on every single breath, just try to let a little bit of that tension go. We have a tendency to lean forward or toward anything that we're trying to get or experience. And so just notice if there's any part of your system, your attention, your energy, your awareness that's pushing forward, that's trying to grasp anything or understand anything. And just take a nice deep breath and let it rest back. See if you can get comfortable with not trying to figure anything out or making anything happen. So with awareness at the bottom of your feet, you're going to now bring your knees and your hips into your awareness as well. And your glutes and your groin and your genitals. Take a deep breath. And see if you can relax all the way through your hip flexors and your glutes in your perineum. And just allow yourself to be here completely. If you find yourself wanting to stretch or roll your ankles, that's great. That's your energy waking up. So now connect the dots between your feet, your knees, your hips, your pelvic bowl, and your belly. And soften your belly. Any movement that's coming through, any shivering or any little ways that maybe your hands want to stretch, or exactly. If you're not feeling much of anything, that's okay. Just bringing awareness to everything that's happening below your belt is really amazing. If you need to shift around, keep softening through your belly and breathing, breathing into that low belly. Connect the dots now between the feet, knees, legs, genitals, belly, and upper belly, solar plexus. So just becoming aware of your upper belly that's connected to the lower abdomen, the hip flexors, the genitals, the knees, the feet. Take some deep breaths here. Unwind the belly. This could be a brand new sensation for you. You could start feeling a little trembly. This is fire at the belly. Fire energy. Feel the ignition, feel your sense of self, feel your sense of power in your rested back nature. In your rested back posture. That your sexual energy can be present, that your powerful energy can be present, and you're still just resting back. On the next breath, bring your awareness to your heart. If you lose track of your feet, bring your awareness back to your feet and your knees and your hips and your genital, genitals, and draw a line from your genitals through the low belly, belly button, through the solar plexus and into the heart. Take a nice deep breath. If there isn't, give yourself the opportunity to experience your truth by resonating the truth that's happening in the movement of your breath and your body right now. And you can shake your hands and you can stretch. As if someone's looking at you right now, and you want to be seen. Just let your energy get really big. Connect it through the feet and the knees, the hips, and the belly. And definitely make a sound if you haven't made a sound yet. Vibrate your vocal cords. And so you're cycling your own energy up through your feet from the earth, through the knees, hips, genitals, let it swirl around the hips. Soften the belly, soft belly, so that that energy can flow into the heart. And make a sound. Just give it a sound. And let that sound connect into the middle of your mind. Pineal gland, brow point, sixth chakra. Let it feel good. Let it loosen the tightness in the middle of your mind. Let it loosen and expand your visionary space. Keep with the breath, keep with the sound. Let the energy feel really exhilarating, really good. Let it pump through the system. It's okay if it feels really strong. It's okay if it feels really soft. It feels different on different days. And then just letting it spill out the crown. So from the feet through the legs into the pelvic bowl, sipping that energy up, that lower chakra, lower belly, soft sipping. Maybe you're squeezing a little bit. This works best through surrender. But it's okay if there's like vibrating, if there's twitching, if there's compression or squeezing, make sure you come back to that deep exhale and relax and allow that energy to naturally rise through the system, through the heart, through the chest and the neck, and the face and the head. And just gently emerge, penetrate, or spill or burst through the top of your head, wherever you're at, it's perfect. That energy is going to fall back to the earth where you pick it up again through your feet. So you're cycling your energy between earth and sky. And this is your raw creative energy. This is your natural energetic flow. This is young flow, feet to crown. The energy is meant to move in an upward way. To be expressed out. Through your resonance, through your truth, through your powerful presence, through your brilliance and your ideas and your mind. And then just let it go through the top of your head. Just let it go. And we just come back to you resting in that current. So just resting in the current of your open flowing nature. If you want to connect this cycle to your breath, now a great way to do this is to pull up through your feet on the front of your body on the inhale. So inhale deeply and sip up from the earth. And exhale through the top. And let that exhale just flow down the back side as well. So inhaling all the way up, and when you get to your head, your face, the middle of your mind, begin that exhale to move that energy through the top of the head and let it spill down the back. So this is fire flow, this is young flow. This is vitality flow for a man, a man's body, or anyone who wants to run young energy. Let it wake you up, let it get your blood moving, let it flush your face, let it open your mind to new possibilities. This could feel very sexual. There could be arousal here at the groin. I want to give full permission for that. You could start feeling tingly, you could start feeling aroused. That's great. This is your space and your practice. Notice what happens when you invite that through the soft belly, your arousal energy through the soft belly, into your power center, into the high belly, into your heart, and then into your expression center, into your voice, into the way that you vibrate your truth and your vocal cords. And the way that creative energy sparks ideas in your mind. And the way you just let that move through as natural and elegant cycle. This is how you can use your own sexual energy, the energy that you've been told to repress and edit and tamp down and flow it through your own system and give it back to the earth so that your energy is open and flowing, but it doesn't occur to anybody that you're throwing your energy on them or that you're being too sexual. Nobody knows. This is your energy. So a few more breaths, just letting this cycle. And this is gonna run for as long as you very well please for it to run. And usually when we initiate an energetic wave or cycles like this, it's gonna have some kind of peak where it feels really big, and then it's gonna rest and settle down. When it rests and settle down, settles down, you're just gonna hang in the valley. Just feel like the essence and the nature of the energy that surrounds your body right now. Feel the equilibrium between the inside and the outside, between the lower half and the upper half of your body. And if you have to keep reminding yourself to soften your belly or breathe, you just do that. Wherever you're at is perfect. And you're just gonna ride this wave until it feels complete.