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The 7 major Chakras

Chakra means wheel because the chakras spin around. The chakra is pointing to all directions not only to the front of the body. The engergycenters are in a cone shape like a horn. They are open to the front (receptor) and small to spine (root). Traditionally there are 7 main chakras, some talk about 8 or , but we will go through the 7 Chakras which are situated along the spine. This system of 7 main chakras is related to the !undalini "nergy, since they sit along the spine. There are much more chakras in our body, in our palms, feet, knees.... Chakras are con#unctions for many nadis that is why they are energy centers. The three main nadis $da, %ingala and &husumna tra'el along the spine as well. (hen $da and %ingala meet there is a chakra placed. The nadis are tubes where the energy flows through in the energy body not the physical body. )adis are e*ual to the +eridians. There are more than 7,.--- nadis in our body. (e ha'e . different bodies/ 0) physical body ,) mental body 1) energy body .) emotional body They are all conected in the na'el area. (hen we die this connection ends and the bodies disconnect and each goes his way. The physical body returns into his elements2 the other 1 bodies 3 depend on what our belie'es are. "ach chakra is spinning fast when our body is healthy, clean, strong the spinning is what spreads the energy in our bodies. To4ins, stress and our lifestyle cluters the body with to4ins and so the spinning of the chakras is slowing down. Then we will lack energy. Today most chakras are spinning slowly, so we are unbalanced in terms of energy. (hen we talk about chakras we ha'e to remind ourselfs that e'erything we talk about is on the energy le'el. Colour, direction of spinning, shape of chakras we do not know e4actly nobody does it may 'ary from person to person. $t is to understand the principle but do not hold onto details, you need to ha'e your own e4perience. $n our lifestyles today e'erything in life is about pain, suffering, sadness, hea'yness in art, religion, pop songs, mo'ies, e'erywhere...when starting yoga you will realise life is about #oy, lo'ing e'ery moment, lightness. +ost people think only when you feel pain, when you suffer, you e4ist. $n the west a lot of people do not were colours only black, dark blue the colours we wear is a reflection of how we see life. $n $ndia e'erybody wears colours, they are not afraid of wearing colours it is a statement of lightness. The colours we wear are also affecting our chakras. 5ight colours are lifting the energy. The Theory of the chakras revoles around 2 major physical systems 0) )er'ous &ystem ,) "ndocrine &ystem )er'ous &ystem The central ner'ous system is based along the spine. 6ll functions are comming from our ner'ous system. "ndocrine &ystem 6ll the glands are located along side the spine. 7lands are balancing through hormons all organs and all functions in the body. 8ormons are sent through the organs and those hormons tell a organ on how to beha'e. 9or e4ample/ hormons tra'el to the "ierst:cke and tell teh egg to release onc ea month, so you ha'e your period. $f the glands are falling asleep and they do not sent hormons you won;t get pregnant or you do not

ha'e a ,8 day cycle. &o your body does not function well. <ur hormons controll our moods, digestion, sleep hormons are messengers. $f a wrong message is transportated your body disfunctions. 8ormons are 'ery powerfull they need to be in balance. The chakras are directly manipulating the glands. 5ife is a flow the aim is to flow energy through your body 'ia the chakras and the nadis. "'ery bit of anger, frustration, fear, worries, #ealousness, greadyness will cut of the flow of energy or create blockages. $f you do not let go also of posessions, like house, husband=wife, bad memories, money you cut of your energy. 5earn to let go> <ur energy mo'es like a feather 'ery light. ?ut e'en if you hold on to lightness or to spiritualness you will cut of the energy. @ou are a yoga teacher but only in one moment when you teach yoga, not when we walk on the street, not when we eat lunch...where is then the yoga teacherA Bo not hold on. $f you mo'e through the world and hold on to who we are there is not much space for other things to come. Bo not hold on to titels in each moment you are what you are. Learn to move from moment to moment. Knowing you are nobody going nowhere. Then you are free to be in each moment what you want to be ! you will e"perience real freedom# 5ike you are a wife= a partner of s.b., but when she or he is not there what are you thenA @ou are a housewife when you are home, a yoga teacher when you teach, a partner when you are with your lo'ed one but when your partner comes home from work and wants dinner will you stay in the kitchen and say $ am a yoga teacherAA Let go learn to be anything at anytime ! then you are a free person.

The Chakras

"lement Colour &ound 5ocation 6sana

$uladhara 0 "arth red 56+ base of spine, perineum cat, spinal lift pel'is tilt

%vadhisthana , water orange E6+ se4 organs pigeon

$anipura 1 fire yellow F6+ na'el camel wheel

&nahata . air green @6+ heart cobra

'isudda C "ther, space blue 86+ throat area shoulderstand plough fish

&nja D Bark blue or purpel <+ third eye between eyebrows headstand, rabbit, child

%ahasrara 7 'iolett abo'e the crown

Colours what does it meanA <ur energy has no colour the aura is in the light colour when we talk colour it is refle4ion of the mind on energy colours are conceptiuall, energy is beyond concept but we do effect the energy with our mind. (ear colours 3 if you feel to wear a speciall colour e.g. red it comes from the first chakra. $uladhara Chakra The first Chakra ! $uladhara is a bliss cener for physical body touching, feeling, sensations. &ymtoms for unbalanced first chakra are hemoriods, constipation, dirrhera, colon cancer, digesti'e problems. Gnbalanced could be too weak or too strong. The first chakra connects in our physical body with the nose (smell) and the e4cretory and reproducti'e organs. (hen you learn to see energy then you will see where people are stuck energetically. ".b. if your pants always stuck in the bum, that means your first chakra is blocked. &ur'i'al needs are all belonging to the first chakra the will of sur'ing, safty needs, desire for material, goods, choice of profession. 6n unbalanced chakra could also be that you identify of who you are with a house, a car. +aking a li'ing is the first chakra. "4ample of unbalanced first chakra/ +any yoga centers are competing instead of working together.The fear that my yoga center is not going to sur'ife. Teaching yoga is a sur'i'al professon, but there is so much fearof not sur'i'ing, that we start to compete with each other instead of working with each other.

&ound 56+ Chanting is prana#ama. Eisualise the sound coming form your first chakra and feel the energy 'ibrating in this chakra. $nhale and chant 56+, 56+, 56+ often on your e4hale, inhale and again 56+2 56+2 56+...do so for a couple of minutes. @ou will feel energy in the front and the back. (hen we chant the energy can tra'el up. 6stangha @oga They contract the +ulhada ?andha througout the class (0.Chrs) in the traditionally yoga bandhas you would only use while doing prana#ama. Contracting a bandha for 0.C hrs such a long time it will become unbalanced. +any 6sthangis are obsessed with their practise (physicall practise) there is no softness in their practise. They are manipulating the first chakra. They do only physical practise there is no stillness in their practise always mo'ing, contracting, #umping, sweating, comparing postures... if they contract their bum that means they ha'e fear of loosing their energy. &o contracting +ulhada ?andha already is cutting of your energy because you are afraid of loosing energy. &itting in 5otus will push energy up, not down. )obody can tell you what and how to do your practise, but easily we get obsessed with sth. 6sana, meditation, kriya it is always easier to life li'e in an e4treme way rather than the middle way. 9ind your middle way, e'erybody has their own middly way. (e are all indi'iduals. @our middle way changes from moment to moment simple be free in each moment to choose what you want to be. $f you identify with your car, house, when you see materials as e4tention to your body 3 you will suffer big time. Today e'erybody is looking for safty outside of themselfs. They think if $ buy a house, ha'e money in the bank, $ feel safe. %eople accumulate materials and feel established in life. 6nd then if fire, water destroyes the house, car, and e'erything inside the house is destroyed. %eople standing on ashes that used to be what they are, with shock on their eyes, they think e'erything that $ am is destroyed, all my life $ worked to get so far, who am $ nowA ?ig pain, people are terrified because suddenly they understand that no e4ternal safty e4ist if you want to feel safe you ha'e to create internal safty which does not reflect in materials. <f course en#oy your materials, en#oy money, if you ha'e it en#oy it, but do not identify with it. @ou may ha'e it now, but the ne4t moment you ha'e nothing. Today we do create an illusion of safty through material we own, so 3 are you still freeA %vadhisthana Chakra 6ll chakras are linked to each other there is no starting or ending of one chakra. This chakra controlls our se4uality. Gnbalanced would be imptence, frigidty, obession with se4 also infertility. %hysically we associate it with hips, sacrum, lower back, genitals, womb, bladder, kidney. $n'ol'ement with sensuality, se4uality, emotions, intimacy, desire. @ou could e'en analyse different cultures on earth to see where the energy is. Today in the west the ad'ertisment is all about se4, our lifestyle is all about se4, the secound chakra is controlling our society today. $anipura Chakra "ach person has their own aura and their own colour of aura. "'erybody can see auras right now you might not see it because you told yourself what you can do and what you can not do. Can you handle honestyA (hat en'ironment are you creating that people lie to youA Taking responsibility e'en for that. 9eeling energy @our own energy/ rub your plams, spread fingers apart, close eyes, play with your energy 6ura of others/ stand behind a sitting person gi'e some space for the energy, rub your palms, take them away from the person and 'ery slowly bring your hands closer and feel the aura of that person %ractise on a plant= tree gaHe at a leaf &tart seeing auras on top of the crown be aware of auras when touching people The manipura chakra is the center of the body, it is the largest energy center in our body, it influences the digestion process, assimilaton of food and prana. $t go'erns the sense of accomplishment, your will, your ego, 'ital energies, seed of personality, self esteem, confidence or insecurity, personal power, being yourself.

&nahata Chakra 6s we get higher and higher, the chakras get less and less physical. The 6nahata Chakra controlls physicaly to trachea, lungs and the heart. $t has to do with unconditional lo'e (not only the romantic lo'e), compassion. @ou will connect with compassion when you mo'e beyond, then you look around and you see yourself in e'erything and e'erything is you. @ou will feel for the dophins in the ocean. $t also go'erns the lungs, our breath, our prana. $f you are compassion, you ne'er #udge other people, ne'er be 'iolent. Gnconditional lo'e means lo'ing without an moti'e, lo'e with no comparison. %ath of realiHation/ lo'e without the fear of loosing your partner this is unconditional lo'e. )ormaly we would only lo'e people as long as it ser'es us (friends, family, partner) 'isudda Chakra This is about communication, e4press yourself. 5inked to the thyriod gland which controlls the metabolism which con'erts food into energy. Gnbalanced C chakra would be a sore throat. (hat kind of people often ha'e sore throatsA !ids 'ery common because they can not fell you what they want. 6lso if people always swallow anger, keep stuff to themselfs, they do not e4press what they want. Gnbalanced chakra might be speechless, often ha'e a cough or they do not stop talking, stottern, or they always say IJhK while talking. &jna Chakra ! The Third (ye This is the gateway to liberation. @our intuition, imagination, seeing reality beyond the mind and ego, illusions. $t is connected to the third eye. "soterically regarded to be the center of psychic potential. The pinal gland is locatd in the center of the brain, siHe *uater of an inch, weights about 0=0- of a gram. Tasks of the pinal gland/ Chief of brain and ner'ours system )ormaliHation of immunsystem &uppressing tumors %rotection against stress 6nit aging effect 7land secrets melatonin 'ital for a proper sleep %ahasrara Chakra 6ny definition will limit it. The aim of yoga is realiHation. 6ll chakras need to be balanced. There is no one chakra more important than the other. @ou need all chakras to be e*ual balanced otherwise you can not make a li'ing or you can not communicate with people. 6 lot of yogis ha'e powerfull energy in the higher chakras, but they are not grounded, they can not deal with normal daily life. <nly you know your balance e.g. first chakra, making a li'ing, some people are happy with less money others like to make a lot, but ask yourself what is your moti'eA Felationsship, fears, moti'e, action, way of lo'e, way you eat e'ery moment in each day is indication for your yoga practise.

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