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How to Activate Your Chakras, Unlock Your Asana Practice & Make Your Heart Sing

September 29, 2016 by Guest Author 2 Comments

By Premaloka, Yoga on Waiheke Join Premloka for her Awakened Heart Yoga Retreats and Workshops: Raglan, New Zealand 28th-30th October 2016  Kovalam, India August/September 2017. Find out more here. Would you like more Happiness in your life? Would you like your practice to not only be connected to the physical body, the mind, and your breath, but to also transform you emotionally? Through working directly with the chakras and then connecting with the Bhavas (the body’s emotional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Home Yoga Practice, Meditation Practices, Physical Practices, Practices Tagged With: Anahata, asana, chakra, chakras, kundalini, meditation, pranayama

Three minute chakra testing? Bullshit. Beware the hype

November 15, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 85 Comments

Chakra test fake?

by Kara-Leah Grant Editor's note: I wrote this article four years ago, and a few months ago, received an email from Karina Swenson, Director of Communications at Mindvalley, who publishes this test, saying: "A few years ago, you reviewed our Chakra Healing Quiz on your website. We found your review recently and appreciate you for being so honest.  The quiz at the time was on an old site and was broken, and we’d love for you to review the new quiz." I've since gone back to the website, taken … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga in the Media Tagged With: carol tuttle, chakra, fake, healing, mindvalley, test

September 1-2: Auckland, Swami Durgananda, Inner Light & Chakra Yoga Workshops

August 20, 2012 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

This is an opportunity to learn from an exceptional teacher. Initiate Master of Meditation and Realised Master Swami Durgananda will be returning to Auckland to conduct workshops following her guest presentations and involvement with the recent Kawai Purapura International Yoga Conference and Festival. Swami Durgananda is the Spiritual Leader of Samata Samashti Dharma and has brought ancient knowledge to the west, primarily as a healing balancing yoga of mind and body. For over 40 years … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events Archive Tagged With: auckland, chakra, meditation, Prema Yoga, Raja Yoga, Samata Samashti Dharma, Swami Durgananda, workshops, yoga

Chakra Vinyasa: Meeting the Energy Body

April 9, 2011 by Jessica Powers 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...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices Tagged With: chakra, chakra vinyasa, energy body, prana

Practices for the Heart Chakra, Part 1

December 15, 2010 by Jessica Powers Leave a Comment

Wheel pose - contract that anus!

  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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Physical Practices Tagged With: anahata chakra, chakra, heart opening, loving-kindness

Cromwell Yoga Teacher: Bron Poole

December 3, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant 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...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews Tagged With: ashtanga, bron poole, chakra, reiki, yoga studio cromwell

Chanting through the chakras

October 31, 2010 by Jessica Powers 1 Comment

by 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 that of seven … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices Tagged With: bija, chakra, chanting, Jessica Powers, mantra

A yogic Christmas fable – The Christmas Tree

December 24, 2009 by Guest Author 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...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: chakra, consciousness, sushumna

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