CHAKRA THERAPY

CHAKRA THERAPY
A FREE 4-WEEK SERIES TO EMPOWER YOU
MARCH 2015
| A JOURNEY TO YOUR SELF |
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WEEK ONE
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WHAT THEY ARE +
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Ever noticed how a yoga class can leave you
feeling clearer and lighter? Or how a deep hip
opener can bring up some emotion? This is
because yoga is not just about physcial exercise. If
you have ever taken a yoga class with me, you will
know that I focus more on the experience of
creating space in the body, rather than stretching
a muscle.
Yoga works with the subtle or energy body, helping
to move prana, or life force energy, through the
body. The subtle body is that part of you that is not
your physical body. You cannot see or touch it, but
it is part of you.
Prana moves through energetic pathways in the
body called nadis, similar to the meridians in
Chinese medicine where chi flows (although the
actual channels are different).
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NADIS
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CHAKRAS
Nadis intersect to create chakras within the subtle
body. These are key energy centres. A chakra is
literally a ‘wheel’ or vortex; dynamic and always
responding and influencing your experience.
Chakras both influence and are influenced by our
physical, emotional and spiritual experience.
Generally, we focus on 7 main chakras that are
located along the body’s vertical axis, from root to
crown. Remember that we are talking about the
subtle body, rather than the physical body. So the
chakras are not located on the spine, which
develops curves as we learn to crawl and then
stand upright. Rather, we talk about an energetic
midline that corresponds to the ‘primal streak’ that
was formed when you were an embryo. In yogic
anatomy, this midline is called the shushumna
nadi.
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CHAKRAS CONTD...
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IDA + PINGALA
There are two other main nadis: Ida is the left
channel, originating at the root and terminating at
the left nostril. It corresponds to the feminine (yin)
and lunar, cooling principle. Pingala is the right
channel. It originates at the root and terminates at
the right nostril. Pingala nadi is the yang, warming
and solar counterpart to Ida. Ida and Pingala dance
their way up the body.
You can think of chakras as major 360-degree
intersections at the meeting point of the Ida and
Pingala nadis. If something gets stuck at one
juncture, it’s going to impact the flow of energy or
vitality in the whole system. Even if it gets
cordoned off, and traffic is redirected, it takes a lot
of energy to manage this as it is not part of the
natural flow. If a chakra is a little imbalanced or not
moving optimally, this will be reflected in physical,
emotional or mental symptoms.
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THE FLOW
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THE BEST PART
An understanding of the chakras means that you
are empowered to bring this awareness into your
own yoga practice, whether at home or in a group
class. In this way, you can tune your body to
connect with an area which is expressing
challenge, to help you feel more open-hearted,
secure or confident. You can also help to calm an
area that may be expressing symptoms of
hyperarousal, such as anxiety, fear or anger.
Over the next three weeks, you will discover the
symbolism and elements associated with each
chakra. The communication between the cells in
your body relies on vibration (see the work of
Candace Pert, PhD for more on this), so we will
also look at the vibrations of colour and sound
evoked by each chakra. As quantum physics
reminds us, everything is energy.
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BE WELL
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