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3 Yoga Poses to Expand Awareness and Wisdom - Crown Chakra
Sahasrara is the only ‘main’ chakra temple located outside the body, located just above the crown of the head. It is referred to as the bridge to the cosmos and connects us to our highest self (Supreme self). This chakra governs the communication and interaction with the Universe and our deeper understanding.
3 Yoga Poses to Awaken Your Intuition and Inner Vision - Third Eye Chakra
The sixth chakra is located in the center of the head, center of the eyebrows, connected to the pineal gland. Ajna is the Sanskrit name meaning, beyond wisdom. It signifies the unconscious mind, the direct link to Brahman (ultimate reality). Its essence is of intuition, self-realization, inspiration and knowing.
3 Yoga Poses to Invoke Authentic Expression and Honesty - Throat Chakra
This chakra is associated with speaking up and expressing yourself, yet also with hearing and being heard. Blue energy is pure, soothing, calming, and healing and connects a person with the divine. The element of space defines the Throat Chakra.
3 Yoga Poses to Embrace Love and Connection - Heart Chakra
Anahatha is the Sanskrit name for the Heart Chakra meaning; infinite, unstruck, unbeaten, or boundless. This signifies an impartial and infinite love allowing a deeper understanding of self and others. The heart chakra is located at the center of the spine situated in the center of the chest, same highest as the thymus gland, located just behind the sternum.
3 Yoga Poses to Spark Confidence and Authenticity - Solar Plexus Chakra
This Energy Center essence is of personal growth, gut-intuition, and personal power. These qualities are for Vital-force energy, movement, internal fire, and self-mastery. The solar plexus is our fire center, where we put our ideas into action and it’s from this space that we digest life.
3 Yoga Practices to Awaken Courage and Passion - Sacral Chakra
This energy inspires freedom, joy, and pleasure. It is the second Chakra located below the navel and around the genital area. It is represented by a golden-orange six petal lotus flower. The second Chakra of physical sanskrit name; Svadhisthana translates to; ‘One’s own place’, you access your ‘own place’ through sensation, through feeling.
3 Yoga Practices to Embody Grounding and Security - Root Chakra
The seat of existence, the Root Chakra is what roots us to the fundamental foundation of our being. Located at the base of the spine just below the sacrum. Muladhara is the energy center that is the seat of your survival and is the activator of the flight or fight in the nervous system.
5 Barre Exercises to Embody Self Trust - Root Chakra
The intentional repetition of these movements over time will help you unblock your root chakra and become more aligned as you begin to trust yourself to show up and truly embody the life of someone who trusts themselves wholeheartedly. Remember, you can still fire up your core, work your hip flexibility, and find long feel good stretches while attending to a very important energy center in the body. The base of our existence, the root chakra.
The Benefits of Camel Pose or Ustrasana and How to Do It
An incredible addition to your yoga sequence that opens the front body and counteracts slouching relieving lower back pain making this great for people working at a desk often. This opening pose stretches the front of the body including the chest, abdomen, quadriceps, heart, neck, and shoulders leaving you feeling open and empowered.
How to Unblock Yourself
If you’re a beginner or have been practicing yoga for a while yet can’t seem to improve your flexibility or strength, you are probably under utilizing a very important tool, the yoga block(s). It’s true, using yoga blocks can transform and improve your yoga practice! Many think using any probs devalues the practice or makes us weak. The truth is the very opposite. Yoga blocks not only improve your practice, but also support your practice in many ways. Utilizing blocks can deepen your practice to a whole new level.
One With the Trees - Exploring VRKSASANA, Tree Pose
Tree pose, also called Vrksasana, looks like a simple posture at first glance. However, when done correctly, this pose will challenge your entire body both mentally and physically. Tree pose is one of the first balancing asanas most will encounter. Strong like a tree, this asana strengthens all surrounding muscles of the knee joint while cultivating a strong core.
Why Barre and Yoga are the Perfect Blend
The beauty of this blend of yoga and barre is this duality of strength and flexibility not just physically but mentally and emotionally as well. It’s about agency and the power to choose. It’s about resilience and mental health. It’s about learning to move through situations and poses with real feelings, real support, a safe space, a community, and a purpose. The blend of yoga and barre represents the clean edges and the rough edits of us as human beings.
This is the Hardest Part of Yoga
Have you ever tiptoed out of class or started rolling up your mat, as the yoga instructor guides class into Savasana? Does stillness intimidate you? Have you felt the time pressure mount and the urge to rush off? Do you think it will energetically affect your post-workout bliss? Most of us have been there, but do we really know what we’re missing when we jump off the mat and skip this asana? First things first - this is completely normal!
5 Yoga Poses to Shake Excessive Fatigue and Lack of Direction
Yoga can stimulate many things and help get to down to the root cause of so much including lack of creativity, motivation, excessive fatigue and so on. As creatives we tend to need a second shot of creativity now and then and sometimes (just speaking for myself here) a kick in the ass. Here’s 5 yoga poses that give you just that. You can do these anywhere. No equipment needed so no excuses allowed!
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