YOGA & MEDITATION

ANAHATA YOGA

Anahata symbolizes the consciousness of love, empathy, selflessness and devotion. On the psychic level, this center of force inspires the human being to love, be compassionate, altruistic, and devoted, and to accept divine actions.

The best heart chakra yoga poses are those that open the chest area as well as poses that draw energy into the heart. So throw on a green shirt and let’s practice 4 asanas to assist us in opening our heart chakra

CHAKRABALANCING YOGA

Chakra is a Sanskrit word which translates as "wheel”. Chakras are energetic power centers that both take in and distribute energy throughout the body. There are seven major chakras that correspond to the nerve plexus and endocrine glands in our physical body.

Chakras or nerve plexus in your body are perpetually affected by the way you interact with life’s situations, people and places on a physical, mental and emotional level. Thus, your chakras collect and absorb energy. The chakras are the medium through which you feed your body with health and balance; or deplete your vitality, health and well-being, depending upon how you live your life.

The innate intelligence of the life force or prana flows through your chakra system unimpeded when you are deeply relaxed in meditation or in deep sleep. Our self-conscious, ego-mind dominates our subconscious, biological prana during the waking state. Our prana, instead of healing, gets expended by conflict and stress created by our ego mind. One of the major blocks to the free-flowing movement of energy is our mind.

Your ego, is constantly creating and re-entertaining your pr-programmed perceptions of the past. This impedes the flow of energy throughout the chakras, and deprives the body of the self-healing, self-balancing power of prana.

Most of our health issues are created at the mental and emotional level. This registers energetically in our body in the form of psychosomatic blocks. Our chakra system is aligned with the nerve centers and endocrine glands in the physical body, an energetic replica on a very subtle level. Chakras cannot be located in the physical body as they exist as psychic centers. Nevertheless, they have a powerful impact on the body’s physical well being.

• Basic (Muladhara) Base of the spine, sacral-coccxygeal plexus
• Sex (Swadhisthana) Behind the pubic bone lumbar plexus
• Navel Center (Manipura) At your navel center solar plexus
• Heart (Anahata) At the level of the heart cardiac plexus
• Throat (Vishuddha) Pit of the throat cervical plexus
• Third Eye (Anja) Between the eyebrows
• Crown (Sahasrara) At the crown of the head