I’m going to introduce to you seven stages of working with yoga when it comes to relationship and maintaining harmony with you and the other as well as your own self. We have inside of us seven chakras. According to yogic philosophy, they are dictating our behavior, our thoughts and our patenting.
So the first chakra, the base of the route, this is an energetic center just between the tailbone and the genitals often depicted as a red ball of energy and it’s all to do with stability, steadiness, responsibility and finances.
So what you can do is place your hands on your knees, sit heavily into your pelvis and bring your torso all the way over to the left hand side and you’re using your weight. You roll over on to your right hand side and you’ve just—it’s called a spinal rotation but you’re using the weight inside of your body to become particularly heavy and you always go from left to behind to right to forward. And you do this for about three minutes to settle down to literally become grounded.
The second chakra often depicted as an orange glowing ball of radiance or energy, this area in between the hips is all to do with sexuality, sensuality, being able to express yourself and being creative. In yoga, what we do is a pelvic lift. So if you bear in mind where the chakra is, you use your physical hips as the boundaries in between and it’s that area that pulls the hips up.
Okay third chakra, up here at the navel point right in the very center of your being often depicted as a beautiful daffodil yellow. This area is all to do with commitment and trust. It’s being able to begin a project and finish it off. So what you can do to do to open up this center? There are two ways of going in. If the person is fit and has got strong abdominals or lower back, you do some leg raises and again you do this for 26 raises or one minute. If the abdomen is weak or lower back is weak, you do something called a breath of fire. Place your hands over your tummy and you’d exhale and you bring the navel in. [Demonstration]
So the fourth one is the area of the heart, up near the lungs. This area is relating to a color of like an emerald. It’s ought to do with being open to love, being open to receive, being to be hurt. You put your thumbs at the back and your fingers at the front of the shoulders and your elbow in line with your shoulder so there’s this immediate stretch across the chest. You’d inhale as you twist left and you’d exhale as you twist right and this is a very fast rapid movement. [Demonstration]
Moving up to the fifth center which is the throat depicted as a beautiful sapphire blue, again very, very rich, very vibrant. This is all to do with communication, speaking as well as listening. Keep in your chin parallel, again, this same movement of left and right. Take your head to the furthest point on the left and inhale and take your head slowly to the furthest point on the right and exhale. Just let the chin guide.
Moving up to the sixth chakra which is also known as the third eye point, this is all to do with intuitiveness, perception, being able to see between the trees, really understanding what’s going on in the other person, being able to sense things at a greater level. From here, the best thing that you can do is a cobra. So this is where you lie down on the floor on your belly, you inhale up, exhale down and place that part of the head on the floor. So you’d inhale up, lift that third point as high as you can.
And then there’s the crown chakra, the seventh on right at the very top. This really hasn’t to do with earthly things at all, this is much more spiritual, much more lighter. It’s really to do with knowing that you are part of a greater hole, a greater awareness. You can’t use yoga to open up your crown. So what we tend to do is we roll our eyes up to the top of the scalp, literally in our heads, take them as high as they seemingly can go, listen to everything inside of your body. Your heart, maybe creaking of your bones, listen to everything in the room, room only, creaking floor boards, beams overhead. Listen outside of the room to the furthest away point whether it’s a bird a train and stay there. Stay at that furthest away point so that’s how to raise all of that energy finally to the crown.
I sincerely hope that these yogic exercises I’ve shown you for the seven chakras will be really beneficial and be tools for your authentic relationships.
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