 Hello Earth citizens. My name is Chris. I'm a brain education instructor from Rolling Hills, California. And thank you for joining me for the five element keystone series. This is our fifth element. This is the earth element. We've already covered our metal, our water, our wood, and our fire. So this is gonna wrap it up for that series. So if you missed any, please go back and check them out. So we're gonna bring our feet about shoulder width. We're gonna start to come in the organs that are related to our earth element, our stomach and our spleen. So I'm gonna, on your left side, your left side, you can mirror me here. Good. You can rub that space under the ribcage, your stomach and your spleen. They're kind of cradling in there together. They're kind of cuddling. So you want to kind of bring that focus into this space under that left ribcage. Good. So through our flows today, we're going to purge and cleanse and clean up some of the energy of our stomach and then we're gonna build some energy and then we're gonna cultivate and grow the energy we choose. So the five elements are an Eastern philosophy that allow us to harmonize the energy of body and mind inside our body. So as we get ready to start, we're gonna start with a little tai chi opening to get us started. So as you inhale, let your hands float up. As you exhale, dropping, good, inhale up and exhale down. Start to pull the energy from the earth that have come up as your chest rises, your tailbone drops, then your chest sinks, your tailbone tucks, inhaling up and exhaling down. This gentle movement allows us to kind of relax the mind and the body, bring them together to be able to circulate the energy better, to harmonize a little bit better. Ready and inhaling up, exhaling down. One more time. So we're going to bring our hands here in front of us, making a little energy ball here. So my left hand is on top, my right hand from the bottom. So as I exhale, I'm going to push the hand out. I'm going to have a little tip of the hips. So the hips are very important. I'm going to push energy away. As I come back in, I'm going to switch my hands and then I'm going to push the opposite direction. My hips are going to twist. I'm going to push away, switching the hands. So exhale, pushing, inhale, return, switching the hand, inhaling and switching. So feel your hand gathering the energy of the earth, pushing away, stagnant energy. So the energies of a stomach and spleen that are not harmonious are a bit of worry and stress. So a lot of people, when you worry too much, they tell you, be careful. You're going to get an ulcer. You're going to get a hole in your stomach. So there's a connection between the worry energy and our stomach, our spleen. So you want to imagine that you're pushing out all your worry, all your stress, delivering it to the earth. It's much bigger, much stronger than us. Let it clean the energy for you. We'll do one more to each side. We're trying to make our stomach or spleen feel a little lighter. Going back in, relax your arms. So now we're going to come to our building posture. It's a holding posture. You're going to bring your arms up in front of you. Elbows are a little bit lower than your wrists, where your hands are parallel to the ground, like they're resting on the earth. I kind of imagine it looks like the sphinx a little bit. So you feel that pause on the earth. Good. Elbows are a little low. So feel that energy coming up from the earth into your palms. Feel it coming up into your souls. You're feeling your body. Now the color for the earth energy is yellow. So feel your stomach, your spleen filling with this bright yellow energy coming up. So through our holding postures, we build our energy. We grow the materials, the power to be able to grow the energies we want. We need the materials to work with. So these holding postures will help strengthen through the muscles and the joints. They have a lot of benefits. That's why they're so uncomfortable. That's why you feel a little vibrational, a little pain, maybe a little wobble. That is where the energy is getting stronger, cleaning and opening. So you build these postures to a minute, two minutes, three minutes, and you really start to feel reduction in tension. You might even feel a little bit of less pain in your everyday life. So feel that energy growing in, the beautiful yellow energy filling your stomach. So now we're going to start our flow for our stomach and our spleen that's going to help us grow. The energy you want to grow is trust. You want to grow our trust. So now with your hands, you're going to bring them here in front of your solar plexus, your stomach is right over that solar plexus area. So as we exhale, we're going to push really forward a bit pushing away and then we inhale pulling energy in, collecting and gathering energy into that third chakra space. Exhale. And so feel like you're gathering this energy, you're refreshing, recharging, you're building all the self trust. Exhale, you push away. Inhale, you come in, I'm going to turn just so you can see a little bit. As I go on, just hinging at the hips, straight spine, inhale, pulling the energy into that stomach area. You can picture beautiful yellow light filling. Feel it happening and getting warm, getting full. You're so growing that trust all your anxiety, all your worry, melting away. As you replace it. Exhale, pushing, and you're pulling energy into the space. One more time. Feel the atmosphere with energy and that will gather energy down three times, harmonizing energy through our whole body. Your hands coming over our second chakra, lower dungeon, bring your feet together and just swaying in the breeze like the bamboo, strong, and light effortless. Let the energy move your body. Picture your stomach filled with beautiful golden light. Now, beginning to rub your abdomen and bring your feet out of our shoulder really gathering, focusing the energy and lower abdomen, coming right into your dungeon, keep breath in and out. Thank you for joining me for our birth element. And so we've gone through the five elements. So they're one of the best ways to create harmony in your overall body. So through the five videos, the five series, you can study each of the elements you guys can put them together and harmonize. And then keep an eye out for future ones with the whole sequence together. If you'd like to experience a full one hour for an education based class, please contact the body and brain center near you.