This is a repost of an essay on body awareness. Bardon practice presumes 

and requires that you actually be able to directly perceive the vitality 

and health of your body, muscles, organs, and the balance of life force 

between upper and lower body, chakras, etc. This simple stretching and 

focusing on vitality exercise is one way of doing that. Yoga itself and 

Bardon body breathing in itself will not do this for you.
 
Furthermore, if you combine an awareness of the surplus vitality in your

body with akasha which is in effect Shiva you can combine the Shiva Shakti

kundalini yoga goal in your body with far greater ease. See my Kundalini

for Dummies farther down.