ABHYANGA

A yogic practice of cleansing the body, abhyanga is a body massage with sesame oil and a rough cloth or fiber mat.* This use of CobraBalance brings the practice home into your daily life. After your shower or bath, start at you feet, increase your circulation by moving strokes with your cloth towards the heart. Bring awareness to how you are using and balancing your body. You will need to bend and reach. Move into monkey pose as you perform abhyanga. Stay relaxed in you joints. When you pick up one foot to scrub it, can you balance softly?

Use this time to practice Cobra Balance a little bit each day. When you dress, can you balance on one foot? As you practice, you will improve by simply paying more attention to how you go through these basic motions of scrubbing and dressing.

*For a more detailed description of abhyanga, see Deepak Chopra’s book, Perfect Health.