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Chakra Vinyasa: Meeting the Energy Body

April 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
The rainbow of chakras

You've seen the colours and the shapes - geometric designs in vibrant shades on yoga clothing, jewelry, and various yogic accoutrements. Teachers may have asked you to direct your attention to the 'third eye' between your eyebrows, or asked you to press your hands together in a prayer gesture at the 'heart center.' Some one might have mentioned 'kundalini' or similarly foreign words while directing you through a breath practice, alternatively closing one nostril and then the other. Yet … [Read more...]

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Practices for the Heart Chakra, Part 1

December 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nothing like a backbend to open up the heart chakra

Regular contributor Jessica Powers looks at ways to open the heart - crucial if we're going to shift out of mind consciousness and into heart consciousness. The Meaning of Anahata The Sanskrit name for our energetic heart center is Anahata, ‘the unstruck sound’. While that at first seems to be a Zen koan, in actuality it speaks of the vibrational basis of the Universe and the place within each of us that resonates with it: beginningless, endless, eternal. Anahata refers to the … [Read more...]

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Cromwell Yoga Teacher: Bron Poole

December 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Cromwell Yoga Teacher Bron Poole

Scattered throughout small towns in New Zealand are people who've discovered yoga somewhere along the journey of their life and now teach it in that place they've ended up. Bron Poole is just of those teachers. She found yoga in Japan, and has been grateful ever since. Not just a yoga teacher, she also does Reiki and energy balancing, working with the chakras. It's work that her yoga informs, and her yoga practice and teaching informs her healing work. She's excited about her new … [Read more...]

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Chanting through the chakras

October 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Chanting through the chakras

by guest author Jessica Powers The word chakra comes from the Sanskrit language and literally translates to ‘wheel’. Often described as ‘wheels of light’ a chakra is an energy center in the human body aligned with the spine and considered to be an interface between the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of an individual. Though there are many systems detailing the subtle anatomy of humans, some speaking of 12 or even 100s of chakras, the most common tradition is … [Read more...]

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A yogic Christmas fable – The Christmas Tree

December 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The yogic Christmas Tree

Every now and then, something drops into my in-box that fills me with delight and merriment. This arrived recently from fellow yoga teacher Roger Livingstone and I just knew I had to share it with a wider audience. Enjoy! Dear Yoga Friends and other aligned beings, Here is my Christmas message. I trust you'll dig it. All my best to you. Long ago in a fabled age when men and women were wise, noble and good, the Christmas Tree had profound symbolic meaning. Some characteristics … [Read more...]

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