Shavasana

All sessions involving work with chakras and meridians should be followed by a relaxation exercise called “Shavasana”. It allows one to rest from bioenergetic work, which can be very tiring, as well as to get rid of bioenergetic defects that have not been eliminated yet.

“Shavasana” is relaxation of body and mind in the position of lying on the back.

Lie on the back and make sure that you feel comfortable. Nothing should distract you. Then begin to relax the body starting with the toes. You may imagine a surface perpendicular to the axis of the body — like a glass wall — and move it through the body from the toes to the head; behind this surface no tension remains. Feel that you lose any sensation of those parts of the body behind the surface. Alienate them, saying mentally: “This is not mine, this is not mine!…” If you regain sensation of any part of the body, move the plane through this section once again. After the surface has passed the head you may experience the following states:

The first state: consciousness (awareness of the body) vanishes. You fall into something resembling a deep sleep, but this is not a sleep. Consciousness is regained in about 18-20 minutes. You feel thoroughly rested, as if after a long deep sleep. This is quite a blissful state. You do not have to stand up abruptly, just enjoy it.

The second state: consciousness is retained, but absolute peace comes down on you. You may scan the entire body with the “inner sight”. You may enter the inner space of your body from below and see light and dark regions. Gray or black colors mean disorders on one of energy planes, which correspond to the manifest or still latent stages of diseases. Try to gather all dark stuff in heaps as if with a rake and throw it outside the body.

When doing shavasana you may also experience involuntary exits from the material body: you may suddenly become aware of yourself being in your usual form but in an unusual position — for example, soaring above the floor or standing on the head and so on. There is nothing to worry about, though: once you feel like getting back into the body — you will find yourself there right away. But under no circumstances one is encouraged to perform such exits: these are still exits into a coarse space dimension — into the so-called “astral plane”. One should learn how to exit immediately into the highest spatial dimensions, but the methods for doing this are different.

Children under the age of 12 must not be taught shavasana: having realized that they are out of the body they do not always want to return into it.

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All these exercises should be practiced regularly: it is impossible to get the full effect from them after only one session.