Month 1: Transform Your Body and Money Story to Make Way for the Money You Deserve And

Week One Tools & Practices

1. SUN BREATH SALUTE

Connect with the sacred energy of the Sun with this very simple Sun Breath Salute four times a day. It takes less than a minute each time.

This practice will help you reconnect with and remember the Light that you are. As you take time each day to honor the external Light, you honor the internal Light as well. As you honor the internal Light, you awaken and harness the internal fire. The number four represents the Earth element in many traditions. Four breaths represent bringing the Light into matter, into form, into your physical Being. This supports your health at all levels.

Practice instructions:

1. Stand facing the sun at the points listed below.

Four Points of the Sun: Sunrise: face the Sun in the East. Noon: face the Sun in the South Sunset: face the Sun in the West Before bed (or midnight if you are up): face the North

2. Be sure to take care of your eyes. Avoid looking directly at the sun. Depending on the cloud cover and brilliance of the sun, you might be able to CLOSE your eyes and turn your face towards the sun and let the sun come through your eyelids. Or just face the sun with eyes open without looking directly at the sun. If you can’t see the sun, that’s okay. It is still there! 

4. Take four slow, deep, relaxed diaphragmatic breaths giving full energy and presence to the Sun.

5. Optional: Sun Breath Arms. Allow your belly breath to raise your arms out to the sides and up to the sky as you inhale. Keep your arms relaxed and moving with your breath. Do the same on your exhale, allow your arms to release down to your sides with your breath.

6. Allow affirmations to come through you as you breathe:

Some examples:

I am a Being of Light I breathe in the Light Everything is Light My cells receive the Light I am the Light

"Why do we watch the sunrise? Why do we concentrate on it? In order to learn to mobilize all our thoughts, all our desires, and all our energies, and to direct them toward the realization of the highest ideal. A person who works to unify the many chaotic forces that pull him[her] in every direction and to project them in a single, luminous and salutary direction becomes such a powerful centre that his[her] presence, like the sun, is able to radiate through space. Yes, s/he who manages to control the tendencies of his[her] lower nature can spread these blessings over the whole of humanity, and s/he becomes a sun. S/he lives in such freedom that s/he expands the field of his[her] consciousness to include the entire human race, to which s/he sends the abundance of light and love that pour forth from him[her]. " ~ Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Week One Creativity Exercise

© 2013 Sally Clinton, Ayushri Yoga, Ayurveda & Wellness, http://www.ayushriyoga.com Listen to the Guided Visualization from the end of the Week One Call to be led through this exercise. Or you can get the general idea from the instructions here.

1. Inspiration POOL

Imagine yourself walking through a beautiful soft, mossy path through the woods on a comfortably warm summer day. The path you are on leads you to a gorgeous sun-filled opening with a pristine natural pool that perfectly delights you in every way.

In your pool there are 108 water lilies (or other flower of your choosing) floating on the surface. Each has a single bud. Each bud holds a spark of your inspiration.

Allow yourself to open up to the 108 sparks of inspiration that are contained within the buds. As something comes forth that inspires you, know it is held in those water lily buds and begin to name each one.

Collect these sparks of inspiration by making a list or, draw or paint your pool with 108 lillies inside, and write down the names of that which inspires you on each of the lily pads. Write these by hand. There are no limits and no rules to what you can include. This is not a process of thinking, but of simply allowing yourself to open up to whatever inspires you and then capturing it in a word or two and put it in your inspiration pool.

Immerse yourself and allow this pool to be the container for those inner sparks of inspiration. You can also collect pictures, and gather inspiration as you go through your days through images, words or whatever calls you. If you feel inspired, allow yourself to make a creative representation of your Inspiration Pool that holds your 108 sparks of Inspiration through painting, drawing, sculpture, collage. Whatever inspires you!

2. TAKE A DIP

© 2013 Sally Clinton, Ayushri Yoga, Ayurveda & Wellness, http://www.ayushriyoga.com After each of the buds in the pool have been named, walk back down the path from where you came and go about your day, feeling the satisfaction that comes from being connected to your sources of inspiration.

Return to the pool a short while, and begin to dip your toe in the water, testing the temperature and taking in the beauty of the pool and all of the sparks of inspiration it holds. Feel the excitement build as you read through your lily pads and connect with all that inspires you. Walk around and fully absorb the beauty and the energy that comes from your sources of inspiration. Feel yourself get more and more energized with all that inspires you. Feel yourself getting giddy and blissful. One bud in particular draws you in magnetically as it begins to glow ever more brightly. You notice the name of that bud and feel how it holds the most energy of inspiration for you at this time. As you connect with that inspiration, the bud begins to blossom, receiving energy from you, and giving you energy in return.

3. DIVE IN

As the flower blossoms the spark grows to a beautiful glowing Light. Dive into the pool and allow yourself to fully receive the beauty of that source of inspiration. Get up close to feel and smell and taste how it wants to grow and blossom.

Dive into it fully. Allow yourself to get completely wet! Immerse yourself in this spark of inspiration. Find some creative way to explore and express this source of inspiration fully. Use a medium that speaks to you and inspires you. Paint it. Draw it. Write it. Dance it. Experience it. Make it. Allow yourself to open up to whatever comes through you. Enjoy your immersion in this spark of inspiration that is ready to blossom!