1. Pose of a diligent Horse.

Stand straight, separate your feet as much as you can, incline your upper part of the body forward, lean on your hands. Hold your back straight; fingers are directed to each other. Breathing is calm and homogenous. Imagine an excellent horse that grazes on meadow in purple rays of the descending Sun. Experience such qualities as endurance and diligence, which are awakening in you.  

2. Pose of a fascinating Goat.

Without changing the position of feet, move your upper part of the body to the front, bend from spine. Throw your head to the back. Breathing is calm; pauses on inhalations. Feet are parallel to the floor. Imagine this picture: on the mountain slopes and perpendicular peaks jumps an excellent goat with elegant legs, small horns and moist sharp vision eyes. Feel such qualities as elegance, artfulness, refinement, grace.

3. Pose of a resourceful Monkey.

Lay to your back. Sweetly stretch your whole body, lifting your hands over the head; inhale and with expiration get up. Sit with elongated legs and raised arms. Twist with your spine to one and then to the other side, trying to hold it perpendicularly to the ground. Thoroughly feel each movement.

Imagine an enormous chimpanzee, jumping from branch to branch. It has strong adroit extremities, expressive mimicry and rigid black fur. With your inner hearing try to hear the cry of a monkey. Feel in yourself such qualities as humor, sociability, capability to solve any situation. Enter this with your whole being. Merge into these experiences.

Incline over your feet, grasp your feet by hands and stretch your spine. Then straighten and sit.

4. Pose of a quarrelsome Rooster.

Sit on the floor, unite your soles; push your knees as much as possible apart. Grasp your feet with your hands and with your head touch the feet. Hold your breath on expirations. With your inner vision imagine a motley rooster with proudly raised head that is importantly walking on fresh green grass.

Feel in yourself such qualities as determination, courage and dreaminess.  

5. Pose of a devoted Dog.

Set your hands as far as possible behind your back, bend your legs and place your soles against the floor. Raise your body so, that it would be parallel to the ground; hold your balance by feet and hands.

With your inner vision imagine a noble dog with clever eyes and downy soft fur. Hear its barking. Experience in yourself such quality as faithfulness, devotion, self-sacrifice, sincerity. Then get back to the floor. Sit on your heels and relax. Feel beneficial state in the region of your head and neck. Experience the change in your consciousness.

6. Pose of a careful Boar.

Place your palms against the floor. Straighten your legs. Hold the balance with your palms and feet so, that your body and legs would form a sharp angle.

With your inner vision imagine a boar with prickly bristles, powerful body, small eyes, hooked tail and strong feet.

Feel in yourself such qualities as straightforwardness combined with caution, wish to think first and then act. 

7. Pose of a clever Mouse

This pose is like the continuation of the boar’s pose, in it you can relax and rest.

Sit on your heels, push your knees apart, and connect thumbs of your feet. Stretch your body forward as if placing it on the floor between your knees. Stretch your arms and connect your palms. Head is slightly raised; sight is directed toward interlaced hands in front. Breathing is calm, hardly noticeable, with delay on expirations. Body is relaxed. Relax all tensions as much as possible. With your inner vision imagine a rat or a mouse with small sharp-sighted eyes, velvety fur and brisk, adroit movements.

Feel in yourself such qualities as rapidity, adroitness, and experience all this as deeply as possible.

8. Pose of a fantastic Bull.

Sit on your haunches. Hold your feet together, and push your knees apart. Place your hands on your knees. Hold your balance, freeze in this pose. In front of your closed eyes imagine a powerful white bull with strong horns, strong body, calm and strong sight.

Feel in yourself such qualities as patience, modesty and power.

9. Pose of the leader – a Tiger.

Sit on your knees. Relax. Put your fists against the floor. Put your head on your fists. With your inner vision imagine a tiger: its spectacular bright color, flexible strong movements, inner power. Imagine how it chases a swift-footed doe at infinite plain. Hear the whistle of wind of this chase.

Feel in yourself such qualities as rapidity, adroitness, striving, desire to be the first and wish to take risks.

10. Pose of the calm Hare.

Sit with crossed legs to the floor. Incline to the front and put your elbows to the floor. Lean your head over your fits. Feel peace and rest in this pose. Breathing is homogenous and calm.

Imagine a white hare with scared moist eyes and a short tail. Experience the inner state of a thin esthetic value and politeness in society.

11. Pose of ephemeral Dragon.

Sit on the floor with elongated legs. Raise your right leg with knee near the shoulder and put your right hand under your knee, connecting it with the left hand behind your.

Imagine an enormous fire-spitting dragon with rough skin and hairy bristle and with strong puffy movements.

Feel the state of effeteness, luster, strive to perfection and generosity.

12. Pose of the wise Snake.

Lay to the floor, unite your hands on the back and bend from the spine. Breathing is homogenous and calm. Imagine a snake. Feel such qualities as calmness, wisdom and refinement in actions, which are awakening in your being.

These qualities are expressed to a greater or lesser extent in each one of us. Doing this complex meditatively, you will obtain not only benefits for your health, but also you will be able to manage all these qualities in yourself and to distinguish them in surrounding people.

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