Blog 6

  • Sat-chit-ananda: Finding Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss in Gandha Bherundasana

    Sat-chit-ananda: Finding Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss in Gandha Bherundasana

    The peak pose of this moonth’s routine is the advanced pose Gandha Bherundasana. It relies on core strength to enter and exit the pose, and is challenging even using the wall as support. The weight of the body is on the chest and chin with legs in a locust variation. The pose is a throat… Read more

  • Two Keys of Awareness: Proprioception and Interoception

    Two Keys of Awareness: Proprioception and Interoception

    Two essential concepts in the yoga world: proprioception and interoception. Both terms relate to a process of turning inward. Proprioception means awareness of the physical body, as it moves through space. Interoception means having awareness of the spiritual, or mind, body. Both in proprioception and interoception, rather than looking at our body we sense it.… Read more

  • Love and light, between the heart and the crown

    Love and light, between the heart and the crown

    From the heart there radiate a hundred And one vital tracks. One of them rises To the crown of the head. This way leads  To immortality, the others to death Kathe Upanishad [3.16] (1) This moonth I am working on the throat chakra. It is connected to the heart below and the ajna chakras above.… Read more

  • Chant and Be Happy: The Fifth Chakra

    Chant and Be Happy: The Fifth Chakra

    In the way that water needs earth to be carried and shaped by it, sound needs air to travel and be heard. In the presence of ether, sound cannot travel. Many people believe that the elements of sound and ether are interchangeable at the fifth chakra, but they are in fact mutually exclusive, sound depends… Read more

  • The Fifth Chakra and Restoring the Primary Curve

    The Fifth Chakra and Restoring the Primary Curve

    In Anatomy, the primary curve relates to the natural curve of the head, neck and spine as found in the faetal position. We develop secondary curves in the neck when we learn to look up as babies, in the lumbar spine when we leanr to sit up and in the legs when we learn to… Read more

  • The Chakra of Truth

    The Chakra of Truth

    The fifth chakra is about truth, communication, discernment, judgement and detoxification. Its Sanskrit name Vishuddha means purification (1). The element associated with this chakra is sound, which makes sense given that its locaton, at the throat, is home to the vocal chords from which we talk, sing and speak our truth.  The fourth chakra is… Read more