chakra

Reflections on a Chakra Workshop, Part 2: Moving Through It

April 15, 2010

“I’m ready to be open,” she said. “I just don’t know how to let go.” My favorite postures in yoga have always been the hip openers.  I know I hold tension there, and poses like half-pigeon feel like an energetic and active release of tension that gives way to openness, to flexibility.  I mean this [...]

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What does it mean to live with an open heart?

April 6, 2010
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“Why is it,” I asked, “that I’m choosing to hold on to this unrest, this… resentment? It’s not like it’s comfortable. …And why, when I know the freedom that comes with svaha, with letting go, with offering it up… when I understand how this universe works, how the world is within reach in front of [...]

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