Lifting the sky
1. Sit in a comfortable position.
2. Close eyes and start to focus on breath.
3. Breathe in through the nose and exhale through the mouth. So keep your mouth slightly open and touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth.
4. Relax and visualise your heart and smile internally or visualise yourself smiling from your heart.
5. Bring your two arms from your side to the front of your body. They should be stretched slightly with the two palms facing or parallel to the ground with fingers pointing towards each other.
6. Raise the two hands upwards above your head and look upwards the sky. Your palms should now be turned upwards and facing the sky. Breathe in as you are raising hands. Focus in on your breathing and exercise is for relaxation should movement should place little strain or stress on body.
7. Relax your two arms and drop to your side. As you perform this movement, you should breathe outwards or exhale
8. Repeat exercise for ten or so times, but remember the exercise is a breath orientated exercise. At no point should your body be put under too much strain. Also the movement should be done relatively slowly in conjunction with breathing.
9. When you are finished exercise just stand comfortably and relax and enjoy feelings of hopefully being less stressed. You may find your hands tingling or warm.
10. Gradually bring yourself back and open your eyes slowly.
11. Rub your hands together
12. Either give your body or face a massage as shown originally.
13. When finished shake your body or self out gently and move around.
Aim:
Exercise is aimed at achieving gentle exercise combined with breathing exercise. Overall after performing exercise, one should feel much relaxed. It gives the opportunity to shut or turn off the mind in a way that gives one a break from any negative thoughts or dissolve away any worries for a few minutes whilst practicing this exercise.