April has raced by and I am bringing this blog to you rather late in the day. As we spend our final moonth on the sixth chakra and start to focus on the seventh, we begin to approach the sea of universal consciousness and bliss The primordial sound, Om, is a bridge between the world of matter and the world of consciousness. As we chant, we contemplate that moment where energy becomes matter and the universe is formed, on the edge of infinity. As we reach towards the seventh chakra of infinite light, still working on the sixth, we chant Bolo Bolo Sab Mil Bolo Om Namah Shivaya. Shiva is the ruler of consciousness, traditionally associated with the sixth chakra, and its seed sound Om.
But Om opens us up to the intangible worlds of both the sixth and seventh chakras. Physically I’ve found the asana for this moonth packs a punch. I have managed to fit in seated half compass, standing leg bound pose, dolphin and scorpion. All practiced with an awareness of the sixth and seventh chakras it has helped me to find length in the spine and a greater awareness of the spiritual dimension ot my practice. My aura, the energy within it, the tensegrity throughout the physical body and the intrconnectednes of the seventh and fourth chakras all contribute to a feeling of lightness and openness in the body by the end of the practice. It reminds me how I felt when I was working on the second and third chakras together, it automatically opened y my heart space without necessarily focussing on it.
Working with the chakras in sequential order, particularly the second year running, I notice where there is openness and where I am closed. Patterns that I observed in year one are amplified in year two. Not greater stickiness necessarily but greater openness, and where there is a natural openning. Working on the sixth and seventh then, after six moonths of concentrating on the foufth and fifth chakras, felt liberating. I noticed my fifth chakra opening this year, as I worked on it, and this has had a ripple effect into the higher chakras. Technically silence is the seed sound of the seventh chakra but I have heard ‘om’ being taught also. At the end of chanting om there is a vibrational silence where the absence of sound almost manifest its own ethereal presence. The seventh chakra goes beyond three dimensional reality, into infinity itself. I am excited to focus purely on the seventh chakra next moonth. This gradual transition from the sixth, associated with thought and light seems to have paved the way for understanding an almost other worldly reality in the seventh.
Sarasvati Flow 