Photo by Margot Porter
Moving through the chakras, the energy centres inside the spine, this week we are up to Anahata. Anahata means "unstruck sound" and can be seen as the spiritual centre of the heart. Anahata is associated with the element air and is said to determine what and how you feel. You can see the lower chakras as representing the material world of self starting with the earth (Muladhara): dense and solid followed by water (Svadhishthana): fluid and moving and then add fire (Manipura) which vapourises the water into clouds that accumulate in the heart as thoughts, feelings, emotions. Most of us hold on and get caught up in emotions and this clouds clarity of perception, however, being free of emotional attachment allows you to open up to joy and love or a higher consciousness.
In the class we will investigate both forward and back bends as a way too balance anahata cahkra. The anatomical focus is on the thoracic cavity: scalenes (neck), pectoralis (chest), trapezius (upper back and neck), rhomboids ( between the shoulder blades), and erector spinae muscles of the thoracic spine. . Of course, this will be done within the structure of a body-mind-breath-spirit balanced class.
See you on the mat,
Namaste,
Margot
I'm in love with these Mandalas from Kathy Klein see more at danmala.com/gallery
I think I need to make some. They remind me of the spinning energy vortexes that are the chakras.
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