Observe with Rachel (Sat Siri) on Wanderlust TV together with her new sequence, Root to Rise: Journey By way of the Chakras which features a companion sequence of free 10-minute self-reflection & journalling lessons. A free 14-day WLTV trial permits you to take the 7-part sequence, in addition to pattern the hundreds of yoga, meditation and motion lessons on WLTV, which features a huge library of Kundalini lessons from Rachel Dougherty.
As a life-long learner, I’m all the time within the “why” of issues. I’ve tended to be extra sensible than esoteric about my yoga apply. I can attest that yoga grounds me, strikes the agitation from my thoughts, relieves my anxiousness, and helps me sleep higher. I can simply get behind all of these issues, as I do know this from my direct expertise.
However then, whilst a yogi, with years and years of day by day apply beneath my belt, after I began to listen to concerning the significance of chakras, vitality wheels, and balancing them… nicely, I used to be skeptical. You see, I’m a full blooded, true blue Australian: we’re born skeptics. It’s in our blood.
Lower to some years right into a day by day yoga and meditation apply, and I began to note that after I did practices that labored on my throat chakra, I communicated with extra braveness, and was a lot much less anxious what others would suppose.
Once I engaged in breathwork, particularly engaged on the guts chakra, I used to be much less armored, extra open and receptive… kinder to myself, even.
I began to confess that there was one thing deeper occurring. One thing that was a bit of bit mysterious to me, and I used to be curious. I started a deeper exploration into these vitality facilities.
That is how my love affair with the chakras started. Wholesome skepticism that gave method to great experiences and outcomes that I knew have been affecting me at a a lot deeper stage than simply my bodily physique.
So, why can we do practices that align and steadiness our chakras? Effectively, as a result of they work! Don’t simply take my phrase for it although, strive these experiences for your self. Observe together with me in Root to Rise: A Journey By way of the Chakras (a 14-day Wanderlust TV free trial will provide you with two weeks to pattern all 7 lessons).
What outcomes will you count on on this journey?
Begin at The Root: The First Chakra (Mūlādhāra)
When this chakra is out of steadiness, it usually feels such as you lack stability. You probably really feel ungrounded, uprooted, insecure. You don’t really feel a way of residence inside your self or throughout the world. You might really feel like cash all the time slips by way of your fingers, or that you simply’re all the time struggling to make sufficient of it to get by.
The reality is, you can’t develop and alter except you are feeling protected and safe, and this begins at our personal roots, our first chakra.
In steadiness, you are feeling assured, protected, and financially safe inside your personal being. You’re capable of take efficient, impressed motion with out overdoing issues.
In steadiness, it permits you to manifest what you need. It permits you to end duties, to observe by way of in your intention, whereas being current and embodied when doing so. You’ll be able to solely join totally to your creativity, your instinct, and get quiet sufficient to hearken to the voice of your soul if you really feel protected and safe. That is solely attainable with robust roots, with a steady first chakra.
How To Floor Down & Stabilize Mūlādhāra
To get this chakra into alignment, it’s best to do grounding practices. Grounding orients us in time and house. We transfer from being out of our our bodies, into making them really feel protected sufficient to totally inhabit once more.
Stomach work and leg work (like squats) and frog pose assist us steadiness our root chakra. I recommend 26 repetitions of frog pose day by day to maintain this chakra balanced. I’ve accomplished this pose nearly day by day now for 20 years. It gave me a stability inside myself that I by no means knew earlier than.
Strolling is without doubt one of the different keys for robust roots. Stroll day by day, at the least 30 minutes. That is important to remain grounded, linked to the earth, to your physique and to your interior safety. Particularly strive strolling barefoot in nature, that is tremendous nurturing for this chakra. Eat grounding meals. Root greens, like candy potatoes, carry even essentially the most etheric individual again into their our bodies, again to the earth. I like a combo of candy potato, brown rice and tahini after I need to steadiness my roots and really feel nourished.
To floor this info for your self, strive the 26 repetitions of Frog pose for 40 days, and journal about how you are feeling. Don’t neglect you may as well apply together with me on Wanderlust TV, balancing the foundation chakra in my Muladhara class, after which observe up your apply with this 10-minute journalling train:
And be happy to verify in with me anytime too by leaving feedback on both the Kundalini apply or the Self-Reflections classes. I’m right here, practising with you, and cheering you on, as you steadiness these highly effective energetic facilities, all within the title of feeling good! We’re doing this collectively.
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Rachel Dougherty (Sat Siri) is a trailblazing, subsequent technology, Kundalini Yoga trainer and coach. She travels the world instructing Kundalini Yoga in locations like Bali, Maui, Mexico and India. She has been practising Yoga and Meditation for over twenty years and instructing Kundalini Yoga for fourteen. She practiced Iyengar Yoga, Vipassana Meditation, and lots of different modalities earlier than discovering Kundalini Yoga. A former ballet dancer with the Australian Ballet, Rachel discovered ballet meditation in movement, a inventive expression that renewed her perspective with every step, flip or soar.
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