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Hi, my name is Danielle,

and we are going to practice a meditation for balancing.

So if you'd like, please take a comfortable seat. This is best done seated.

So allowing the crown to reach up towards the sky, the top of your head,

and rooting down through your tailbone.

We're gonna practice a breathing technique called naty chona,

which is an alternate breathing practice.

So take your middle finger and your index finger and place them right at

between your brows. That's called your third eye.

Take your pinky or ring finger, whichever is more available to you,

and hover that over your left nostril.

And then take your thumb and hover that over your right nostril.

You can close your eyes for this if you'd like, but it's not required.

Take a deep breath in through your nose.

Deep breath out of your nose.

Take one more breath like that to start. Breathe in

and breathe out.

So we'll plug up the left nostril first using the ring finger or the pinky

finger, leaving the right nostril open.

So take a breath in through the right,

close it with your thumb open up the left side.

Exhale through the left nostril.

Inhale through the left,

close the left nostril. Open up the right exhale.

Inhale through the right,

close it up, releasing the left nostril to exhale.

Keep this going on your own, making sure you breathe in

through the nostril that's open,

close it and exhale through the opposite nostril.

What this does is creates balance

in the energetic body,

so really bringing the right and left sides

into harmony.

This is your first time practicing this.

Take your time.

Really focus on breathing in through the nostril

and breathing out through the opposite nostril.

Breathing in through that same nostril

and exhale through the opposite.

Take one more round on your own. Breathe in

and we will end our exhale out through the left nostril.

And once you've completed that final round,

allow your palms to turn down onto your lap

and maybe take a brief moment to observe if there's any shift

from when we started.

And this is a beautiful practice to engage in on a regular

basis, especially if you have a lot of energy in the right side,

which is your sun side.

Maybe you need to balance that out with a little more lunar energy on the left.

So practice this at home, at your office, wherever you are,

and have a beautiful day.