Polarity Yoga for Health - Simple Stretches for All Ages

energy tissues. Then one feels the result of unobstructed energy currents flowing all over the body, as though it was tuned into the "Music of the Spheres". One feels so light, as if literally walking on air, similar in effect to a good POLARITY THERAPY TREATMENT. It is a real release from tension without drugs, without stimulation or instruments of any kind and without exertion. All that is needed is a fulcrum for a base, and the vision of the Creator's Love as the goal. These later research applications of fulcrum and leverage to the connective tissues add to the principles explained in earlier chapters of Part II and supplement the postures shown in Chapters 20, 21, and 22.

The feet are the basic fulcrum of the lowest level of precipitation, the emotionally chronic blocks in the water element of the body and also the earthy element of crystalization [crystallization], inertia and solid waste blocks. Sore feet indicate the severity of these blocked conditions, preceding other illness. When the energy circuits cannot flow through the feet - the densest resistance furthest from the center of life's unconscious source and support at the solar (Sun) plexus - the circuit is then broken between the above and below strata (or planes) in the body, like a wheel off center.

The chart of the bottom of the feet is reproduced in this chapter to show the reflexes to the different levels or regions above, to which the circuits flow and upon which they react. This is accomplished when these foot-line areas are used as a fulcrum base pressure support, while taking these stretches of connective tissue tension release postures, with simultaneous shoulder-stretching.

The edge of a step on a stairway can serve as a fulcrum point if a good support for the hands to hold is available at the door frame or balustrade. The hand support can be about 16" [sixteen inches] ahead from the foot support, and 16" [sixteen inches] above it. If no such stairway is available, then it is easy to improvise by placing an 8" x 8" [eight inch by eight inch] box, 32" [thirty-two inches] long, or a long piece of wood at least 2½" [two and a half inches] high, in front of a door frame. One can then lean back while holding on to the door frame.