Week 4
~ Raja ~
The Path of Mental Discipline
Raja Yoga, often called the "royal path," focuses on meditation and mental discipline, aiming for mastery of the mind. This path emphasizes deep meditative practices to achieve a mental reweaving, improved concentration, clarity, awareness, wisdom cultivation and self-control, ultimately leading to spiritual liberation. Raja Yoga helps calm the mind and increase its illumining capacity, making it easier to overcome distractions and cultivate a focused, peaceful state of being, improved mental clarity, emotional balance, and heightened spiritual awareness.
Chakra Healing
Energy Practices
This week, you’ll explore the chakra-specific practices designed to balance and heal each of the body's main energy centers.
These practices include:
Chakra tracking and sensing
Chakra breathing
Colour and element visualisation
Seed sound chanting
Chakra healing affirmations
and mudras (hand gestures)
... all aimed at re-balancing the energy centers of the body and fostering inner healing.
Balancing the chakras promotes energetic re-alignment and overall well-being, Increased energy flow, emotional stability, and enhanced spiritual insight.
Hatha Yoga
Practice
We turn to a more traditional Hatha approach to physical Yoga practice, which employs a degree of effort in longer held active postures designed to bring awareness to and align the internal energetic experience.
Internal Tapas (willingness to transcend the resistance of change) is encouraged as we explore our inner world, body feeling, breath reality and mind response more deeply within the pause of each posture.
Each day you'll move through specific postures that stimulate specific chakras, helping you to connect with and balance their energies through steady, mindful practice.
Holding postures for longer in a state of concentration deepens your awareness of subtle energy and mind state and facilitates healing of our psycho-somatic centres. You'll experience improved energy flow, enhanced body awareness, and deeper connection and balance with the chakras.
Body Wisdom -
Chakra Anatomy
Dive into the anatomy of the chakras, exploring their physical, energetic, and mental aspects. We explain how each chakra relates to specific areas of the body, their corresponding organs and surrounding myofascial tissues. We look at their function in and out of balance and how energy blockages can affect our overall health and well-being.
Understanding the subtle anatomy of the chakras provides insight into how they influence your physical, emotional and mental health.
You'll improve your self-awareness, enhanced energy healing potential, and a deeper understanding and sensing of your body's energetic system.
Mind Wisdom - Chakras in our Life
Each chakra governs not only physical health but also our emotional and mental function and expressing. Each day you'll reflect on questions about your self and your life, relating to the function of each energy centre within you. You'll learn how your behaviours, and mental habits relate to your chakra energy centres. We discusses the psycho-emotional aspects of each chakra, as well as lifestyle changes that support chakra balance and health.
Knowing how our emotions, personality, habits and lifestyle choices affect each chakra can help up to make more informed and empowered choices about our life and promote holistic well-being, better emotional balance, improved mental clarity, and an overall sense of harmony.
Deepening Meditation Focus
Concentration, penetration and the transformative power of our mind comes with prolonged concentration practice which grants us the ability to transform and transcend present patterns and identifications.
Our meditations move towards a more steady and focused Dharana practice with longer periods of sitting with specific chakra points in the body, along with meditations on the elements, colours, symbols and creative visualisations, aimed at healing and balancing the chakras.
Through focused meditations, you’ll bring greater strength to the mind faculties, improved insight and wisdom, and equanimity and detachment as well as releasing energy blockages and restoring balance to your subtle body, promoting overall emotional and spiritual well-being.
Chakra Meditation Week Highlights
– 1 hour – Chakra Sensing, breathing, seed sounds, visualisations, Mudra, Affirmations.
– 1.5 hour – Guided Chakra Healing Hatha Yoga Practice
– 30 min – Personal Journaling with daily guided reflections
– Herbal Tea and Fruit
– 2 hour – Chakra Anatomy & Psycho-Somatic significance, Discussions and Reflections
– Sattvic Vegetarian Brunch
– 1 hour – Optional Community Led workshops and Free Time
– 1 hour – Evening Guided Chakra Practice
– Evening Dinner
– 1.5 hour – Sharing & Evening Guided Chakra Meditations, affirmations, Nidra and Relaxation
I met Yan and Amit at a Yoga Teacher’s training course in Goa. It was an incredible experience. For me, what stood them apart was the generosity and integrity of their knowledge. Both were willing to give of themselves to their students; a valuable gift from any teacher. I hope to have more collaborations with them in the future and wish them the best on their path.
Prachi
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