Waking Energy: 7 Timeless Practices Designed to Reboot Your Body and Unleash Your Potential

by Jennifer Kries, Nan McNamara (Reading)

Internationally renowned mind-body-spirit innovator and fitness and wellness expert Jennifer Kries offers a groundbreaking synthesis of the greatest wisdom traditions of the East--from QiGong to yoga--to help readers reboot energy reserves and unleash their potential. Modern life is stressful and depleting. We all want more energy, but choosing among the variety of wellness practices can be overwhelming. Now, with Waking Energy, her life-changing wellness program, you don't have to. Instead, Waking Energy features seven distinct practices that can either stand alone as their own complete rituals, or as parts of a whole, QiGong - Kundalini Yoga - Yin Yoga - Vinyasa Yoga - Five Tibetans - Pilates - Inner Smile - Healing Sounds - Meditation. Combining the best of Western athleticism, Eastern philosophies, and ancient practices from the greatest wisdom traditions, Waking Energy invites you to develop a level of energy mastery that will empower, enliven, enlighten and engender true transformation in your health, spiritual richness, and longevity develop the body you've always dreamed of;liberate the hidden power of your mind;find the peace of mind you crave;unleash focus and concentration;master the tools to live your very best and longest life. Each chapter focuses on one tradition, succinctly explaining the historical background of the practice; its philosophy; the relevant exercises and movement sequences (illustrated with photographs of Jennifer demonstrating the postures)--and includes a quick reference guide for daily practice. Jennifer also offers step-by-step advice for combining the techniques to truly transform your health, fitness, spiritual insight, and longevity. With simplicity, clarity, and grace, Waking Energy shows you how to experience a joyful connection to yourself and tap into an astonishing reserve of power to create your healthiest, most vibrant self.

Genres: Health

1 pages, MP3 CD

Published June 6, 2017

About the author

Jennifer Kries is an integrated wellness and fitness expert, an author, a speaker, and an internationally renowned mind-body-spirit innovator. Her award-winning The Method Series DVDs have sold over 15 million units worldwide. She lives in San Diego, California.

Reviews

[Isabel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this book up because I wanted to see how she presents YIN yoga (my area of training and teaching), and I was actually quite positively taken with her perspective and presentation of it. That said, I don't recommend this book as I really believe it promotes breadth rather than depth which is antithetical to my lived wisdom. I can't speak to how well she presents Qi Gong, or Pilates, or Tibetan Rites as I have no lived experience with them. I find her teachings on meditation to be extremely superficial. I am exhausted by "celebrity" trauma stories. And a final nagging thought... somewhere in the book, perhaps the chapter on the Tibetan Rites (?) she comments on the Taoist adepts who earned the right to learn them from their masters through self-discipline and diligence. In that comment I find a nod to tradition and the traditional forms of transmission of wisdom, that practice yields rewards. Yet I find it disturbing that the author feels she can or should disseminate what was once hard earned wisdom simply through the ability to pay for it, whether that is her own ability to pay for high-end workshops and trainings, or a reader's ability to pay to purchase her book. It contributes to the commodification of the Wisdom practices and as such can not support her in that.

[Deborah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been a fan of Jennifer Kries' mind-body teachings for almost two decades. I was over the moon when I realized that she, like me, had segued from yoga and Pilates to qigong and kundalini yoga. It's not just that her instructions are clear and easy to follow; her insights into the ways and whys of these methods, illuminated by descriptions of her own experiences, are what makes this guide a treasure for anyone interested in exploring these ancient modalities.

[Pro Mukherjee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice summary with step by step instructions on different mind-body practices along with an understanding of why / how these might work.
Allows a perceptive reader to see how these interconnect. Enjoyed the book.

[Linden · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jennifer introduces the reader to the modalities that have changed her life: Qigong, Kundalini, Tibetan Rites, Pilates, Yin Yoga, Cosmic Healing Sounds, and Meditation. Illustrations (or an accompanying DVD) would have been helpful, but since I got this as an electronic ARC from Edelweiss, it’s possible that these may indeed be included in the book when published.