How to Do Yoga Walking

Co-authored by Allison Broennimann, PhD

Last Updated: July 15, 2024

Yoga walking is enlightenment while walking. This is the ultimate kick! It's health training, stress reduction, and inner happiness in one. Yoga walking is your daily pilgrimage into the light. If you really pilgrimage, the pilgrimage will turn you into a goddess of happiness.

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When the walk starts, move quickly (power walking), and by the end of the walk, graduate to moving slowly (slow walking). Be sure to undertake all the 10 key elements each time, as outlined in the following steps, to get the most benefit from yoga walking.
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Stomp your anger into the ground while you walk. Let out all the pent-up anger. Think the mantra "Anger, Anger, Anger".
- What has annoyed you today? Don't let it vex you any longer; free yourself from it!
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Feel your sadness. Resolve the feelings by walking out your sadness. Feel your sadness inside.
- What makes you sad today? Think several times the mantra: "I'm sad because ...".
Do this to remove any tension in your shoulders and your neck. Find the optimal way of moving your shoulders to achieve the best effect.
When walking, turn your spine to the right, and then to the left, several times. Do this gently, and turn your head with your body.
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Allow a healing color to trickle through your body from head to foot. Think the name of the color as a mantra.
- What color do you need now? "Orange, blue, gold, pink...".
Feel the earth beneath your feet. Think the mantra "Earth" and breathe for a minute into your feet.
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Move one hand and send someone a positive sentence. What do you want to say to him or her today? Think of the phrase several times as a mantra.
- Send light to the world and think: "May all beings be happy. May the world be happy."
Do this every day, and you will quickly and effectively relieve tension that has built up in all major areas of your body.
Visualize a beautiful sun in the sky and clothe yourself with a golden ray of sunshine. Fill yourself with light. Think the word "Light" as a mantra, many times over.
For five minutes while walking, move all the stress out of you, until your mind becomes calm. Rest a while. Let all thoughts come and go as they please.
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Walk freely. Go whichever way you feel you want to. Enjoy it. Observe how your mind slowly becomes positive. You are now back from your pilgrimage into the light.
- After each yoga walking session, realize that you have done something wonderful and caring for your physical health and for your mental well-being. Keep your happiness. The light will accompany you through your whole day.

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Then she got the idea to walk every day for half an hour. She decided upon a favorable time for her and looked for a suitable location. She bought comfortable clothes to wear, airy clothes for sunny days, and an umbrella and sturdy shoes for rainy days; light clothes for summer, and something warm for the winter. Then she started her daily walks.

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A small tale about the virtue of yoga walking: There once was a woman who was constantly worried. She worried about everything. She worried about her children, her friends, about having enough money to live on and about her health. She wore herself out with her cares and concerns. She was afraid that she could no longer control her fear, and feared that she might not have enough inner strength in the long run to defeat the constant worrying thoughts.

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In the beginning she found it very difficult to go every day at a certain hour. But after about three months, she had become accustomed to it and walking had become an integral part of her life. She discovered that she had gained much inner strength. Her mind was positive, and her fears were lessened. Her health improved, and over the years, she became an enthusiastic devotee of yoga walking.

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Never give up. Your purpose in life is to be happy, healthy, and enlightened. Walk every life into a higher level of light. Become a Goddess, Buddha, Shiva one day. If you're liberated, then liberate all your fellow people. Stay always on your yoga walk through all dimensions of life. May the world be happy. May all people be happy.

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