travels to India before, was always focused on commitment to learn, practice and experience optimal the science of living, we know as yoga.
a unplanned trip this December was exactly that. Unplanned. A time keeper and a schedule, apart from being on time for my flights, not part of my days. Time keeping , our man made structure to organise self and community!
if I went by time, the thought of “not at my age can I tour India alone” may have arrised. Instead, I fully recognise the cycles of Prakrit. My pace slower, taking longer rests, because travelling is exhausting, but I’m showing up.
travelling tourist style experiences include time at the Ganges. Arti at the Ganges. Small industries at a University in Haridwar. Temples. Bookstores. Jaipur. The pink city. Old city. Markets and palaces. And Rajastani Thali. A wonderful Auyerveda massage and getting ready to return to Cape Town. In my bag, a few trinkets to adore my extended Yoga House.
The writing by Louise Hay popped up in my Facebook feed this morning.
Her words resonate so deeply with me.
My life was SO BLESSED always rich in experience.
May I have time and circumstance to grow and explore my inner world and spiritual talents in later life.
We have different paths up the mountain and then the return to village life to manifest. I’ve surely completed this journey. Shed the roles and seats of life. My yearning is for purity, beauty, stillness to delve deep and celebrate the ‘I am’ that’s me, in this lifetime.
The Energy of the body are organised systems, just like the biological systems of the body.
Contrary though, the biological systems can be medically dissected whilst the energy bodies, sustaining the material body, is subtle. This, in itself makes it a complex discussion.
Breath is the energy that keeps us alive, yet, unseen, untouchable. Every human has a DNA chain, only discovered in recent medicine, unseen to the obvious eye. It has been there, through all the ages only to become know in the last decades.
There are far more unseen systems sustaining our material bodies.
I will give an outline of our Sacred Energy bodies that constitute our Sacred Anatomy.
Insight into Sacred Energies contribute greatly towards self-knowledge, insight in actions and gives a “map” towards personal growth, refinement, spirituality, freedom and health. Fundamental, is not to gain this information egocentrically. It is not to analyse and jump to shortsighted conclusions about yourself or anyone else. It’s a complex, sacred journey; ever changing asking for the practise of awareness and reflection perpetually.
Knowledge of the chakras will eventually, connect fragments of your life and experiences into a comprehendable, harmonious whole.
Our material bodies cannot exist without these complex Energy bodies, leaving us in awe of creation;
The 4 energy systems are:
The Subtle Bodies (Energy Bodies)
Chakras (Energy Centers)
Nadis (Energy Channels)
Sushumna – Ida and Pingali
There are 4 Energy Bodies
1.1 Ethereal Body
Ethereal body is closest to the physical body in shape and dimensions and called “The inner physical body”. It gives the energy that shapes the body and we get a new ethereal body with each reincarnation. The ethereal body dissolves a few days after physical death.
1.2 Emotional (Astral) Body
The Astral body is the Emotional body. The carrier of feelings, emotions, our character traits. It radiates into the aura primarily through the chakras. This energy body is in constant motion with steady character traits visible as a constant.
Hues of its radiant energy changes with emotions, fear, anger, love, joy, devotion. Unconsciously we are transmitting unresolved emotions all the time sending messages into the outside world, attracting what is is we want to avoid – Murphy’s law situations. These vibrations attract similar people that often confront us with circumstances we need to deal with. The astral body reincarnates with the soul and joins the next physical body, to continue on its path of healing and self realisation and then manifesting fully in the world.
1.3 Mental Body
Mental body is the energy that generates perceptions such as ideas, rational, and intuition. As a person advance on the spiritual plane, the higher chakra energies, the volume of the mental body increases. Intellect increase, intuition increase, . This energy body becomes then, as much as the ethereal and astral body energies combined. This expanded mental body may then radiate a meter or more into the aura.. The true function of the mental body is to grow towards truth and purity, and gets this from the spiritual body. Higher, larger vibration of the mental body is gained by the third eye and crown chakra. It brings wisdom and a holistic awareness of your Higher self and life.
1.4 Spiritual Body
This energy glows in the gentlest of hues in the aura at the highest frequency of all the energy bodies..
This energy allows us a feeling of inner unity with others and our environment. We sense the Omnipresence of creation we live in.
Spiritual body energy is our divine energy and is immortal. We know we are a spark of the eternal light, the eternal soul. We live to be purposeful. A life enriched with new qualities. We connect more and more with higher self in our actions and our lives express wisdom, love and all the natural, uncontaminated qualities and aspects of our higher self’s. Authentic living.
There are 7 main Chakras
2.1 Muladhara
2.2 Svadisthana
2.3 Manipura
2.4 Anahata
2.5 Visuddha
2.6 Anja
2.7 Sahasrara
3. Nadis
4. Sushumna
Anatomy of Sushumna is a Vertical column from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. Coiling around, similar to the Caduceus sign of the Hippocrates Oath in appearance, is:
The Ida -feminine energy coiling from the base of spine up the Sushumna ending in the left nostril.
The Pingali – male energy coiling from base of spine up the Sushumna ending in the left nostril.
MORE ON THE CHAKRAS IN A FUTURE POST. namaste, ohm, edna
How to deal with an injury to your heart? We experience different impacts of injury or loss during life times. And it is not to be questioned why me. For it is the natural occurrence of life.
Sometimes we cause injury without intention due to a personal evolution of our soul. It is then not to retaliate.
But the injury itself is real for you. Then not why, but ask how. How to move past this soul-hurt.
My personal practise is to get out of a space of suffering is to banish my ego. Once ego subsides the hurt and grieve dissolves and the heart can welcome all experiences equally.
May you be Blessed today to reside in Love and a welcoming Heart. Let Love be the act of today. Heal inward banishing ego and practice welcoming, loving attitude.
Asana practice is different from all other physical activities. Asana means seat. This implies every posture brings its full range of significance in alignment, awareness, compassionate awareness, where the breath will flow, where there is contraction and where to lengthen. Asana practice brings health and lightness, a completely united body, where every part of the body is trained with equal awareness and importance. Dualities is lessened and dissolved, victory and defeat of life’s battles is settled in asana. A peace and ability to want your body, to care for it, to understand and celebrate the physical manifests with shame for physical form no longer.
All of this, happens when asana is practiced with authenticity. When in paschimottanasa, be there, fully united in being of mind, scanning and experiencing, with body, lenthtening and continuously contracting, adhering to the seat of paschmottansana. Awareness of breath and where it is directed bringing light is condensed parts. This applies to every single asana in practise. Arrive on your yoga mat with full authenticity.
Take this with you, stepping of the yoga mat into life. For growth can only happen when we are authentic. To want what is for another, to impose differently in different situations, this alienates Self from Self and personal potential will evade.
