 Hello Earth citizens. In this video, I will show you a 10-minute routine to do for a practice in brain education called bowing. Bowing is actually a very ancient practice that is done across many religions, many spiritual practices, as a form of releasing the ego, as a form of surrender, as a form of humility. For example, Buddhist monks practice bowing to overcome their ego, to become connected to their pure essence. So in brain education, we also practice bowing as a form of going inside, as a form of meditation, to connect with my soul, to connect with the essence of my life, beyond my thoughts, beyond my emotions, beyond all the surface things that may be clouding my connection to my deep true self. So I will share with you the technique of bowing. I hope that you can use bowing to meditate. A lot of the times people think meditation is just about sitting still in a dark lit room and chanting om, but that is not true at all. You can use your body to move and in your movement, you can practice meditation by connecting deeply inside. So let me show you the basics of bowing. I'll show you from a side view because it's a little bit easier to understand from the side angle rather than a front angle. So if you can, please have a mat. It's best to do this on a mat. If you don't have a mat, you can lay out a bath towel, something where you can create some sacred space for you to do this bowing practice. Now, if you don't have a yoga mat, if you don't have a bath towel, then at least do it on carpet. You don't want to do this on hard floor because it will hurt your knees. Okay? All right, so now roll your mat out or your bath towel out and stand at the bottom of your mat, legs together, straighten your spine and you want to first close your eyes and feel your body. Feel your breathing. As your eyes are closed, imagine a pillar of energy coming down from the sky, entering your seventh chakra at the top of your head. This energy pillar comes down your spine into your sixth chakra, fifth chakra in your throat, fourth chakra in your chest, third chakra in your solar plexus, second chakra in your lower abdomen beneath your navel and first chakra, your tailbone. Now this energy pillar comes down from your tailbone, to your legs, all the way down to the bottom of your feet. Imagine from the bottom of your feet, roots come down, making you ground it and plant it into the earth. Can you feel this energy line? Stay connected to this energy line and as you stay connected now, gently, just ever so gently so you don't break this focus, gently open your eyes slightly just to see my movement. Stay connected with this energy line in your body. The first movement of bowing is lifting your hands, bringing your palms together up over your head, bring your palms down as if you are bringing down this energy line again, bend forward, come down onto your knees and try to touch your forehead to the floor. If you cannot, just go all the way down as much as you can and now lift your palms up, as if you are receiving Heaven's blessing. Now come back, pull your spine one vertebrae at a time. That is one bow. With each bow, imagine you are letting go, releasing the things that are making you heavy, your stress in your shoulders, the burdens you are carrying, the heavy thoughts in your head, the emotions in your heart, the heartache, trauma, memories, physical sickness in your body, whatever you want to let go of by coming down onto the floor, it's about releasing, letting go and then after you let go, you come back up, being reborn again. So the cycle of bowing is a cycle of letting go, being reborn, letting go and being reborn and by repeating this process you are purifying your energy, making your body, mind and spirit light and fresh. So we will do ten bows together. So since we did one, let's do nine more. I will count. Please try to follow my count. If you cannot, it's okay. Just do it at your own pace and it doesn't have to be perfect. Just try to get the movement of coming down and coming back up while feeling your body, staying connected to this energy line. Okay, so we did one. Let's do nine more. Number two, palms together, come down, feel the energy line, bend forward, come to your knees, forehead to the floor, palms up, receive Heaven's blessing, come back up, straighten your legs, slowly roll your spine up, keep feeling the energy line at the center of your body. That's very important. Number three, palms together, bring them down, bend your upper body, down to your knees, forehead to the floor, palms up, receive Heaven's blessing, bend to your palms, come back up, slowly roll your spine up, one vertebrae at a time, feel the energy line. That's number three. This is number four. Stay connected to the energy line. Number five, palms together, palms down, create the energy line, bend forward, down, head down, palms up, receive Heaven's blessings, come back up, straighten your legs, slowly roll your spine, one vertebrae at a time. Number six, as you repeat this movement, try to feel the flow of the movements. Can you feel your mind becoming quieter? Number seven, you feel the artistry, the poeticness of the movements. This act of humility, this act of sincerity to purify my body, mind, and spirits. Number eight, number nine, last one, number ten. Great job. Slowly open your eyes, feel your body. What do you feel in your body now? Does your mind feel a little bit quieter than before? Does your mind feel a little bit calmer than before? When you get deeply into this bowing routine and feel the rhythm of the movement up and down, up and down, it's a very powerful way for you to let go of what's making you heavy and then purify your energy just like cleaning the inside of your body. It's like cleaning your energy. So please don't think that bowing is you're bowing to any kind of God or bowing to an idol or bowing to something else outside of yourself. You are bowing to the divine that is within you and you are bowing to be humble in front of the divine that is within yourself. So in brain education, we recommend doing at least 21 bells, 21 bells. If you can, as a daily practice, we do 103 bells. After you do 103, you will have a huge difference in your body, mind, and spirit. So if you're up to the challenge, I recommend doing 21 first to start and then building up to 103. You did a great job. To experience a full one-hour brain education-based class, please visit a local body and brain yoga studio near you.