Flexibility Hack #5: Fracture

Gravity Yoga Nervous System Hack #5 is called ‘Fracture’.

This is how it works: after ‘Scrubbing’, you’ll take 1 → 3 more sips of air into the ‘Target’ before exhaling and going limp.

This is also called a “double inhale,” but we call it ‘Fracture’ in Gravity Yoga, because the naming works better for the analogy of water and energetic barriers.

Water? Energetic barriers?

I talk about it in my Deeper. Slower. Easier. Level 5 training, but this is the gist: energetic barriers are erected in your body due to unprocessed physical, emotional and psychic trauma. And these energetic barriers — dams — are blockages through which energy can no longer flow. And energy that can no longer flow is synonymous with tension.

In this analogy, ‘Fracturing’ is basically slamming water up against a dam, and hoping that cracks begin to appear on its surface.

Or, to summarize:

Energy flow = water = breath.

No energy flow = energetic barrier = dam = neuromuscular tension = poor mobility.

Inhale into energetic barrier = water slamming against a dam = eventually breaks through = tension release = flexibility progress.

Now maybe it takes 10 breaths to break through a dam you’ve put up. Maybe it takes 10,000! The number of breaths required to open you doesn’t matter — it’s the fact that they can be used to open you up. You are not doomed to tension and inflexibility. You can be freed.

Again, there’s much more to be said about this topic. You can find that, and more, on my free flagship yoga training: Deeper. Slower. Easier.

That’s all for this one, though. More than halfway done. See you in the next hack.
– Ethan ॐ

P.S. If you want to see this technique in action, head to practice video and use ‘Fracture’ on a pose called “Ricochet.” In it, you’ll push against the wall to unlock the muscles deep in your chest, traps, and shoulders. It’s amazing.

P.P.S. When a dam eventually breaks — and trust that it will — a huge energetic surge will move through your spine and body. This is what I call a “Kundalini pulse.” If that happens to you, please watch the video on my YouTube channel called ‘What is a Kundalini Awakening, and Why Should You Care?’