Chakras and Meditations - Hot Yoga for Cool People

CHAKRAS: Your vibrational anatomy

What are Chakras?

There is an energy that swirls through all living beings: people, animals, plants...even "inanimate" objects like rocks, water and more.

When seen with Kirilian photography this energy looks like colorful ripples or auras expanding outward at a certain speeds

Yoga describes these as The Chakras: energy vortices that correspond to parts of the physical, emotional and spiritual body.

What we know about Chakras:

There are 7 Major Chakras
Chakras animate the body from the inside out
When aligned, the Chakras create optimal health of body, mind and spirit.
Each Chakra has a physical, emotional, creative, and spiritual component.
Each Chakra relates to an element of higher consciousness.
Chakras are powerful yet sensitive and easily affected. Strong emotions, traumas, life experiences can easily upset the balance of the chakras.
Physical ailments are often associated with imbalances of the chakras
If your chakra energies are "off" in some way, you feel it in various ways

To understand the Chakras you will read about them, then focus on them one at a time to experience each chakra during hot yoga and note what you feel in your yoga in your your body - and in your life.

Chakras By the Numbers

Chakras are masculine and feminine

Even-numbered chakras (the second at the sacrum; fourth, at the heart, and the sixth, at the third eye) govern the “feminine” qualities of relaxation and openness.

Odd-numbered chakras, found in the legs and feet, solar plexus, throat, and crown of the head, govern the “masculine” ennergies of assertion, to have, to ask, to speak, and to know.

The odd-numbered, masculine chakras tend to move energy out into the world and create warmth and heat.

The even-numbered, feminine chakras cool things down, attracting energy inward.

To be balanced is to enjoy both masculine and feminine energies

If you have unbalanced masculine chakras, for instance, you may find yourself pushing yourself hard in work. This is especially deadly for women who are "wired" for feminine chakras.

But there is no one balance that is appropriate for all people; you find your balance by staying aware of your feelings. When you feel disconnected in any way, try setting your mind and your imagination to the chakra of the part of your boy associated with that feeling.

There you will find soothing for body, mind and spirit

When Chakras become unbalanced...

You feel achy, clogged, there may be pain in your body. You go to the doctor for a diagnosis and she tells you there's "nothing wrong with you"

Dis-ease is a pretty accurate word; something is off. It starts out subtly - vibrationally - then the body is said to manifest that "disease."

The good news is that you have many hints about it before then

When you even the smallest, gentlest focus on your chakras, with the intent to balance your chakras, you can balance easily.

Balanced chakras are feel like bliss, harmony, balance, calm.

...and Chakras can be easily rebalanced

YOGA

How does yoga balance chakras?

Asana aligns Chakras even more powerfully than bodies.

And as the asanas bring the body into physical alignment, they are also aligning each chakra.

MEDITATION

How does meditation balance chakras?

As meditation quiets the mind, negative energy is withdrawn from the chakras. Meditation balances chakra energy by cessation of what throws if off balance. (hot yoga is a 90-minute fully-aware open-eyed meditation)

JOURNALING

How does journaling balance chakras?

Journaling is a way of releasing stagnant energy in the chakras...if you simply keep your pen moving on the page, energy moves from emotion to expression in a fluid movement without interference from your "thinking mind" and this can remove stagnant energy in the chakras.

Let's practice feeling, enjoying, balancing the chakras and benefiting your life.

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Thursday

May022013

Chakra 7 Sahasrara: The Crowning of Higher Consciousness

Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 09:32AM

The crown chakra is the energetic passageway to the Divine You.

Sahasrara Chakra relates to pure awareness, a oneness with a higher energy; an inner light.

And it is a direct connection to your Inner Guidance (or Inner Genius)

This happens easily when we sleep. It is often during sleep that we receive intuitive messages from the awakened higher consciousness.

And even more powerfully - during meditation

As the center of spirituality and enlightenment, Sahasrara chakra is about higher consciousness and your highest dreams.

The crown chakra is governed by the pineal gland near the cerebral cortex which is the gland that regulates the sleeping/waking cycles of the body.

Focus: Understanding

Color: Violet or White

Seed Sound: Om

Sense Organ: Cerebral Cortex

Associated sense: Central nervous system

Essential Right: To Know

Essential Oils:

Brahmi Ayurvedic Oil – calms, enhances energy flow of the crown chakra

Lavender – facilitates connection to the spiritual realm, calms central nervous system

Hina Ayurvedic Oil – Strengthens the body and mind, induces mental clarity

Spikenard – helps you connect to the world beyond materialism

Neroli – reconnects you with intuition

Frankincense – links Sahasrara to Muladhara assisting you to stay grounded during meditation

Crystals & Gemstones

Amethyst – connects you to the realm of spirit and transmutes negativity

Angelite – increases telepathic connection with others

Rutilated Quartz – used for channeling angelic wisdom, increases clairvoyance

Herkimar Diamond – enables you to see a much wider picture of your own life

Clear Quartz – increases energy spiritually, harmonizes chakras

Ametrine – enables you to embrace paradox

Kyanite – emanates energies that stimulate the pineal gland activating psychic abilities

Incense: Sandalwood, Cedar, Frankincense Resin, Myhrr Resin, Copal Resin, Juniper

Enlightening Foods: A pure, vegetarian diet; any form of detoxification or fasting.

The physical body: pineal gland, verebral cortex, central nervous system, top of head.

Chakra location: Pineal Gland

NOTICING SAHASRARA CHAKRA

Sahasrara chakra is the highest function of the mind

As we thinkg, so we create our lives.

Excessive energy in this chakra appears as being overly intellectual - thinking "too much"

Deficient energy manifests as apathy, spiritual skepticism.

Balanced Characteristics: inner peace, wisdom and presence, a sense of alignment and clarity, the gift of self healing.

Savasana

Savasana and other forms of meditation bring this chakra into balance.

Every chakra is being actively balanced and re-energized in Savasana.

When you are completely still in meditation, completely relaxed, your chakras align naturally.

You are actually opening your Seventh Chakra at the crown of your head, and your connection to your higher self flows easily.

MEDITATION FOR SAHASRARA

Enclosure

Rhonda Uretzky, E-RYT |