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How to use chakras symbols

You can use chakras visual symbols as a tool to help you balance your chakras’ energy flow and re-gain mental, emotional and physical health.

The practice is simple - find a comfortable sitting position with your back straight and place a print or a card with the chakra’s symbol in front of you at your eye level. Quiet your mind observing your natural breath and once you find yourself present, simply gaze at the image of the chakra. Keep letting go of your thoughts so that the mind is completely absorbed in the symbol. Gaze steadily, without blinking, until tears begin to flow or you feel strain. Once this happens, close your eyes, and try to maintain a vivid image of the chakra for as long as possible. This concentration-based meditation practice is known as trataka. Each time you practice trataka, extend the time you maintain the after-image. This exercise, traditionally believed to remove any disease from the eyes and to induce clairvoyance, also develops the skill of internal visualization. According to Dr. Marc Halpern, founder and director of the California College of Ayurveda, the practice of trataka decreases mental lethargy and increases intellect. While developing the skill to keep our minds fixed in meditation on a meaningful image, we also invoke an energetic experience associated with each chakra.

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WARRIOR II POSE (Virabhadrasana II) Contra-indications: High blood pressure, heart disease or stroke, diarrhea How to perform: Begin standing, finding your widest comfortable stride with feet parallel to each other. Keeping the...
WARRIOR I POSE (Virabhadrasana I) Contra-indications: High blood pressure, heart problems, knee injuries. How to perform: Start in Tadasana. Turn the left foot 45 degrees out and make as big step forward as possible with the right...
TREE POSE (Vrkshasana) In the Tree Pose (Vrkshasana), the roots, or the standing foot, press down and connect to the earth for support while the branches, or arms, extend towards the sun. This graceful posture...
PLANK POSE (Chaturanga Dandasana) Contra-indications: Recent or chronic injury to the back or shoulders, carpal tunnel syndrome, recent abdominal surgery. How to perform: Begin on the hands and knees with the hands beneath...
WIDE-LEGGED FORWARD BEND (Prasarita Padottanasana) Contra-indications: Lower-back problems - avoid the full forward bend. How to perform: Step your feet apart as wide as possible keeping them parallel. Place your hands on your hips....

Pranayama

Cooling Breath (Sheetali Pranayama ) Contraindications: Low blood pressure, chronic constipation, respiratory disorders. How to perform: Sit comfortably, keep the eyes gently closed and relax the whole body. Stick your...
Alternate nostril breathing (Nadi Shodhana) The practice of nadi shodhana (alternate nostril breath) restores, equalizes and balances the flow of prana in the body. The word shodhana means to cleanse or purify, the word nadi refers to the network...
Victorious breath (Ujjayi breath) Ujjayi in Sanskrit means "victorious”, and it comes from two words: ud that meaning "bondage" and ji which is translated as "conquering", therefore ujjayi is the breath which gives freedom from...
About Pranayama We can live without eating for some weeks, without drinking for some days, but without breathing only for a few minutes. Breath is life, however most people rarely or never pay any attention...

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