Let’s talk about “inversions” and how they can help you lose weight.

An “inversion” is when you turn around (invert) your body’s normal blood flow into the opposite direction.

Here’s a couple of examples for you:
- Cross your arms over your head and rest them on the top of your head
- Lay down on your back and rest your legs higher than your torso (midsection)
- Put your legs on a deck or chair when sitting

Inversions are very good for you, when used a couple of times a day to reverse your blood flow and move the toxins and waste that gets stuck inside you. Just like stirring a murky pool of water to help the gunk settle more quickly, an inversion helps to reverse blood flow in smaller veins and this helps for better blood flow overall.

This helps your metabolism and your body will be better prepared to heal itself by improving circulation.

Here’s a simple yoga position you can work on over the next several days:
Legs Up The Wall

–> Start sitting down on the floor with your right hip and shoulder pressed as close to the wall as you can get (don’t force it) just sit next to the wall and gently lean your ride side against it.

–> Now slowly lay down onto your back and bring your legs straight up the wall.

You want your hips and butt to be as close up against the wall as possible so this is why it helps to sit as closely to the wall as you can before lying down.

Level 1:

–> With your back flat on the floor, your hips pressed as close to the wall as possible, and your legs are straight up the wall… now straighten your legs as STRAIGHT as possible (be gentle with the hamstrings here – and ~breathe~ into the backs of your legs as you straighten).

–> Flex your feet so it looks like you’re standing flat on the ceiling.

–> Place your hands either on your belly so you can FEEL the rhythm of your breath…

Or, you can place your left hand on your heart center and right hand on your belly to
connect to the DANCE between your breath and heartbeat – beautiful.

This is the posture.

~ Deep Breaths ~

Stay here for as long as you like for a minimum of 5 minutes. You can lay in this posture for 10, 15, 20 minutes or more.

It’s blissful, restorative, and healing.

I like to listen to a guided meditation, or soft spiritual, healing music just laying there
~breathing~ with my legs up the wall.

Level 2:

–> Place a heavy cushion or pillow on the soles of your feet so that the gentle pressure pushes down onto your feet and legs.

Visualize a soft, flowing waterfall falling over the soles of your feet, down your legs,
and into your heart center.

This inversion is so good for the veins of your lower extremities. Every part of them,
all the way down to the tips of your toes, the veins are relaxing because for the first time, they are not pushing against gravity.

See, the arteries pull blood away from the heart, and the veins pull the blood back to
your heart. And because your legs are BELOW your heart center all the time, they have to work AGAINST gravity to push the blood back up to the heart.

There are valves that help with this blood flow, but when these valves break, pools of blood get stuck (this is what happens with varicose veins).

Giving your legs and veins a BREAK is a very healing experience.

Level 3:

–> Place a cushion or rolled up blanket underneath your hips so that you’ve LIFTED your pelvic floor and now all the organs of digestion, and reproduction are INVERTED as well.

This is even MORE healing for the internal systems of the body.

This slight lift and change in the body’s circulation once again alters the blood flow and cleans out pools of toxins that are stagnate and stuck.

Lie here and ~Breathe~ deeply and consciously for as long as you need to replenish and heal.

Just doing this simple INVERSION will change the internal systems of your body, and replenish your internal organs.

This is what will speed up your metabolic systems (aka ‘your metabolism’). When your
body’s systems are stuck and breaking down, they cannot do their jobs properly, and the body continues to store fat.

The way to stop this is to heal the body.

Replenish the body.

Give your body a relaxing break.

So that it can swim in the healing ~ breath ~ and conscious LOVE and LIGHT that is surrounding you now and always.

Once you start practicing inversions, you’ll be “hooked” to the BLISS and you’ll never want to go back.

Let me know when you start to feel it, see it, and EXPERIENCE it in your own subtle way.