Meditation Belt Double Twisting (102 sec @28.8kbps)

This exercise is designed to help a practitioner to cultivate his or her internal flame. When you can ignite the inner fire in the body, your negativities and the mental stress caused by today’s hustle-and-bustle lifestyle can be burned away. When someone falls sick or suffers from pain, most often it is because of blockages inside the body or because the body systems are off balance. Chi, the energy which is generated from these yoga exercises, can open the blockages and balance the body systems, therefore improving your health. You will always feel the tranquility of a saint or a Buddha. This flame is also called the diamond Vajra flame; it is pure and it will never be diminished.

In this exercise, your legs are your meditation belts. By wrapping your legs tightly around your abdominal area, you can use the inner chi to generate energy and power. If you can retain the chi in the dan-tien and are able to manipulate it, then eventually you will feel the inner fire in your dan-tien as it ignites. But you need to be diligent and persevere to cultivate this flame. It is the same as trying to light a fire by rubbing two sticks of wood together.  Because our bodies are different from one another, some might attain this inner fire sooner than others.
 

Starting position

Lie on the ground with your back, legs, and arms on the ground. 
　

I. Warm-Up

1. Lie on the ground on your back, cross your legs and lift them straight up off the ground. Grasp your right foot with your left hand and your left foot with your right hand. Inhale and hold your breath. Pull your feet down towards your body and try to pull them over your head as far back as possible. Then relax and exhale. Do this three times.
     

II. Double Twisting Meditation Belts

III. The Meditation Belts are Piling on Top

1. Slightly relax the pulling, then smoothly pull your right knee to overlap the other knee, so that the left leg is on top of your body and the right leg is resting directly over top of your left leg. Then, pull downward on your feet and let your knees pile on top of one another, just like a single mountain is being formed with your legs.
   　
2. Inhale and hold your breath. Pull downward on your feet and pull your thighs inward to bring them even closer together, then exhale. 
   　

IV. Extending the Meditation Belts

1. Holding on to your feet, keep your resting leg still while you fully extend the leg that is closest to your body, also keeping your knee flat. Inhale as you pull and extend your leg, hold your breath and let your leg return back to the original position, then exhale.
   　
2. Change legs, extending your resting leg and keeping the other one still. Repeat the movement described in step 1. Alternate legs and repeat the movements two more times.
   　
3. Keep holding your feet, then extend one of your legs and let the other one down on the ground. Repeat the movements two more times.
   　
4. Spread your legs and arms on the ground and relax.
   　
5. Repeat the exercise from step 1 to step 3 with the other leg.