I’ve heard energy workers talk about the solar plexus chakra (or Manipura) as the furnace of the body. Think of it as a wheel in the middle of your body, a bit above your belly navel, and governing the fire elements in your spirit. Balancing Manipura – which translates to “city of jewels” from Sanskrit …
Svadhisthana, or the sacral chakra, is home to our creative, emotional, and sexual well-being. When it’s out of alignment, we tend to feel imbalanced in those areas (either under- or over-active can indicate some level of misalignment). When your sacral chakra alignment is correct — neither deficient or excessive — you’ll feel emotionally grounded, sexually …
The root chakra, or muladhara in Sanskrit, is where everything begins. When you hear the word “root,” what do you see in your mind’s eye? Is it a plant, or a tree? Is it a sprawling visual of a system designed to sustain a living organism? I won’t put too fine a point on it, …
I love a themed yoga sequence. And one of my favorite series to create is a chakra realignment yoga class to close out the year. While my teaching schedule is much smaller than it as been in the past, I’m still excited to implement this type of structure. I’m also solely teaching vinyasa classes right …
I have this tendency: when I’m facing something for which I feel an intense, visceral dislike, I want to pivot in a big way into something completely different. Life is way too short for things we don’t like, right? When I chose journalism as my major in college and wasn’t into it, I almost dropped …
