I am excited to announce new classes on Mondays and Thursday at St Elizabeth Hall SP1 2SG. We will be starting with the root chakra on March 31st and work our way up the sushumna changing focus every new moon, We will work on each individual chakra, followed by the intersection with its adjacent chakra. First chakra, first and second chakras, second chakra, second and third chakras, third chakra, and so on. By working on the intersection we stimulate the flow between the two chakras. We tackle each point anatomically, on the physical body, energetically on the pranic body and psychologically on the mental body. It takes fourteen moons to complete one flow, working from the root to the crown. You can join the flow at any time but if you can start from the beginning, at the root, even better.
“I have practiced and honed this method for over five years and it has profoundly deepened my experience of the chakras and energy body” Ros, course creator
We use pranayama (breathing exercises), bandha (energy locks), meditation, chanting and asana to access the five bodies during a 90minute class. We maintain chakra focus whether practicing flow, yin or trauma informed flow. The yogi is invited to choose which class they need / feel drawn to on any given day. Read more about each class here.
Light is both a wave and a particle. A seemingly impossible contradiction defines our most fundamental element. Light moves up through the sushumna (our central spinal channel) in a continuous wave, but also as a pulse, lighting up each chakra as it goes. This means the chakras exist both on a spectrum and also as a series of separate points. The “prinicple of complementarity” found in quantum science is echoed in the energetic bodies.
The aim in yoga is to light up the body’s network of nadis, nerve like channels of light. The main networks are sushumna, ida and pingala that flow in and around the spine (see image). The seven main chakras punctuate th sushumna, and are said to exist at the intersections of ida and pingala, two channels that criss cross the energy body (shown in red and white). Some schools of thought believe that ida and pingala cross at the chakras, others believe that they cross inbetween the chakras. In the case of viewing the chakras as delimited points in series, the inbetween area, or the meeting of one chakra with the next provides a point of antimatter, of nothingness, a void, worthy of investigation in its own right. What goes on between the chakras when we look at them as a spectrum? The energy flows from one chakra to the next, colours blend like a rainbow, the meaning of one chakra comes up against the meaning of the next. In the case of viewingthe chakras as points on a spectrum of rainbow light, the inbetween points mark the merging of one chakra into another; there is a bridge of light that enables light to flow freely up and down the sushumna. Instead of working with just the single chakras we can work on two together, creating chakra pairs. This is not a new idea. Clairvoyant Barbara Brennan recommends placing the hands over a chakra, and then with it, its adjacent chakra. This has the effect of increasing flow of energy between the chakras.
When light flows up and down the channels, pure light, bliss is passed through the koshas. Bliss, consciousness, mind, prana and body light up We can only experiment with our own energy bodies to feel how contradictory truth manifests in us.
Take this opportunity to practice and observe the self with Sarasvati Flow, one of the most thorough chakra courses ever created. 56 unique lessons, over fourteen moons, from March 2025 to May 2026 taking in the full rainbow spectrum of sushumna and the complimentarity of the chakra network. Click here for more information.
Once again I’m opting out of simple, and instead going for a bonanza of ingredients, hopefully you will have some of them already in the cupboard. A rich bolognese sauce with plenty of veg to keep you helathy: protein in the soya and beans, iron in the spinach, vitamin C in the tomatoes. One yummy dinner. Serves 6
Splash if oil
oregano, thyme, cumin (tsp of each)
salt and pepper
Large onion diced
3-4 cloves garlics sliced
175ml red wine (alcohol free is ok)
large splash of mushroom ketchup
200g mushrooms, roughly chopped and fried
soya mince (can be frozen just add 10min to simmer time)
tin chopped tomatoes
2 tbsps tomatoe puree
½ tbsps garlic puree
tin kidney beans
large bag of spinach
handful of fresh parsley
Add the first five ingredients and fry until onion is golden brown. Pour the wine over the onion/garlic, add toms and purees and stir in the mushrooms and mince. Once heated through add beans and allow to simmer for 20minutes. Add spinach and parsley, allow to wilt and stir in. Serve with spaghetti, rice or couscous. A dollop of houmous or tahini gives an extra twist
Last year I wrote a blog post that listed a number of ways to save the planet. Today I revisited that list to see how well I did in achieving the list of promises
1. Washing – what if we shower in cold water sometimes, its supposedly good for you, invigorating they say. The energy usually used to heat the water could be saved for something else. I have not manged to wash in cold or even lukewarm water this year, instead I have sometimes cut down the amount of hot water I use for showering and baths. Saving 10-15%, I wonder if I can cut down further???
2. Laundry – what if we halved our washing cycles by wearing less outfits? I’ve found myself dressing for the pub, or yoga first thing, and then wearing some outfits for two days in a row, which I reckon to myself is probably acceptable when camping, so why not at home?! 30 degree washes beat 40 degree washes, the cooller the better. This resolution really took off by the end of this year and when working from home I found I could wear the same outfit for three days running, up to two days and a night out; baggy clothes are especially useful.
3. Soap and Plastic – Replace your bottled bath products with bars of soap, instead of shower gel, shampoo, and conditioner, imagine how many plastic bottles you could save every year with these new fangled bars?! Soap is ideally organic, or at least free of petrochemicals, so not to pollute the waterways and harm the wildlife. New Year’s Resolution 2024 is to migrate over to refillable shampoo and conditioner and continuewith bars of soap instead of shower gel. Refillable washing up liquid, laundry and bleach, but alas, still going through those shampoo bottles.
4. Food – go raw if you can handle it, haha, it’s meant to be super good for you. Then, most ecological after that, is vegan. Let’s say a 50:50 veg:non veg flexitarian saves 30% of GHGs, so being part time vegan knocks out a nice chunk of your footprint, and you get to eat more vitamins and minerals too. Hurray, my favourite promise, I ate lots of tasty food ths year, check out my Recipes for vegan inspiration if you are stuck
5. Locavore – shop local and seasonal to avoid the airline/shipping fuel on imports. Aaargh this is tough, I do love chocolate and bananas
6. Avoid packaged foods, or buy products with biodegradable/recyclable packaging only, such as brown paper bags. Not too shabby as I eat mainly whole foods, but could do better. Lots of soft plastic wrap on the veggies. I guess I should be looking at how to avoid plastic entirely…
7. Clothes – what if we wore our clothes until they fell apart instead of palming them off to charity, or worse yet throwing them away, many of us could probably halve our clothes shopping bill. Very difficult to maintain, but feel like I have stopped shopping, can I keep it going for another year?!
8. Heat – get decent loft insulation, install solar panels, wear more jumpers and furry slipper boots in the winter. I remember sleeping in a wood cabin one winter, it got to -15 degrees and I was sat in bed wrapped in jumpers, cardigan, woolly hat and gloves with my breath coming out in clouds of steam, yet I survived and was quite warm and cosy too. Always found wearing a scarf or a hat and my slipper boots
9. Cars – Don’t own a car or don’t use it as much as you used to, instead use trains, bicycles, walks, busses and community car share schemes. Work from home more, use the time saved in travelling to do something for yourself. Looking into buying an electric car, secong hand, or can I get away without it? Hmmm…
11. Create a craft box with old envelopes, packaging, chocolate wrappers etc to make your own cards, gift tags, shopping lists etc (this is one example of Reduce, which comes before everything else). I have not created a ‘Making Box’ this year but I did buy recyclable wrapping paper that wasn’t wraped in cellophane. My mum had saved so much paper from Christmas past that there were 15 different types of paper under the tree. Every little helps!
12. Compost your kitchen waste, and identify suppliers of biodegradable/compostable packaging when ordering online shopping. In fact recycle anything and everything that you can: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! This is difficult when there aren’t recycling spaces, but the more we recycle, the less we land fill, and the less finds it ways into the oceans and rivers. I have been freakig out about micro plastic this Christmas, hundreds of thousands of pieces in just a litre of water. What have we done to our planet?
If you want to know how well you are doing in saving carbon emissions and their equivalents, here is a survey designed by WWF:https://footprint.wwf.org.uk.
I usually enjoy super simple recipes but today I’m going all out for this oriental treat. Triple green stir fry with the base aroma of toasted sesame, I could be in China! Get you calcium fix for the day, plenty of iron too. Serves 4
Toasted sesame oil – 2-3 tbsps
Bunch of spring onions finely chopped
4-5 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced
Inch square of ginger, thinly sliced
Box choy, roughly chopped into large chunks
tofu (a 400g block, cubed)
bamboo shoots (half a bag)
cashew nuts (a small bag)
small broccoli chopped into batons – boil separately and add at the end
stir in one large dollop of syrup
seasone with parsley, paprika, salt and pepper
add one dollop of peabut butter
optional soya sauce
serve with rice, noodles, or couscous
Add the first eight ingredients gradually, as the broccoli boils (5-7min). Cook the pasta/couscous. Stir fry the veggies continuously for 15 min, or until tofu is heated through. Serve with pasta/couscous, season and add peanut butter.
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