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Donna: Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:56 PM
 The fourth of our energy centres (chakras), 'anahata', resides in the centre of the chest, the energetic heart centre, the centre of our thoracic space. With lungs taking up so much of this physical region, it's unsurprising that the element associated with Anahata is air. Anahata governs the heart, the lungs and our ability to open ourselves to love.
Something that yoga has revealed to me very powerfully is the link between the physical and the emotional - when we open the body, stretching previously stiff and tense areas, we can find that rushes of emotion are released. |
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Donna: Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:25 PM
At the end of September 2011, beautiful yoga teacher friend, Beth Croft, and myself led a yoga retreat at the wonderful Molino del Rey retreat centre in the mountains of Andalucia in Southern Spain. 'Molino' is Spanish for mill, and Molino del Rey is built around 2 ancient water mills on the side of a valley. The millstreams continue to flow in and around the beautiful building - alongside the steps down the mountainside from the bedrooms down to the yoga studio, behind little niches for meditation, and even under the yoga studio itself. |
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Donna: Posted on Friday, June 10, 2011 11:48 PM
I have a whole bunch ofsankalpahs(resolutions) right now. The keen-eyed will notice that I have added Facebook and Twitter feeds to my Home page. (What do you think? Let me know if you think it works.) I am eventually getting my head round Twitter and have resolved to tweet once a day. There's usually a piece of news about class updates or a lovely quote to share. I've also resolved to blog more regularly. Weekly would be good but monthly is probably more achievable! I don't need to commit to use Facebook more, I chat on that a lot, which probably says something about my 5th chakra (throat, voice, speech). |
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Donna: Posted on Friday, May 06, 2011 8:34 PM
I've been feeling the need to blog about the chakras since I mentioned them in my post aboutsankalpahs(resolutions). So here is the beginning of what will be a few posts exploring the subject.  In the ancient science of tantra, the human body is viewed as the most perfect instrument for the expression of consciousness. This perfection is realised through the development of the energy centres, or chakras. These energetic centres of the body are located and have energy associated with them as follows: |
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