How does The Chakra Way work?
The Chakra Way is a journey to reconnect with your Energetic Body
Knowledge of the chakras will underpin all aspects of your life. Understanding your energetic body, and creating lasting mind/body/spirit connections are the essential foundations for all healing and self-discovery, and growth. The Chakra Way will introduce you to all aspects of the chakras and their connection to your yoga practice, and how meditation and breath work are essential to our well-being. Our lives comprise many varied relationships and we learn to use the beautiful ancient tools of chakra, yoga and meditation to find balance, intelligence and awareness within our relationships with people, food, money, family and much more. Finding an understanding of your energy, thought and behaviour patterns and working through any blockages, within the Course, will begin to heal the important relationships in life, especially the most important one - with yourself.
Your 8-week journey through the chakras...
Introduction Week 1
Week 3 – Sacral Chakra
Week 2 - Root Chakra
An overview of each of the seven chakras and their connection to your yoga practice. Our foundational yoga class will cover:
standing poses , balances, forward bends, backbends , twists , inversions and recuperative poses.
Week 2 - Root Chakra
Week 3 – Sacral Chakra
Week 2 - Root Chakra
In depth study of the Muladhara chakra – looking in to how our formative years, our relationships with our families and communities have shaped our roots.
Week 3 – Sacral Chakra
Week 3 – Sacral Chakra
Week 4 – Solar Plexus Chakra
In depth study of the Swadisthana chakra – examining our intimate relationships, creativity and sexuality and how we relate to people on a one to one basis.
Week 4 – Solar Plexus Chakra
Week 4 – Solar Plexus Chakra
Week 4 – Solar Plexus Chakra
In depth study of the Manipura chakra – exploring our personal power and our sense of our place in the world, our work lives and relationship with money.
Week 5 – Heart Chakra
Week 4 – Solar Plexus Chakra
Week 6 – Throat Chakra
In depth study of the Anahata chakra – looking at our relationship to loving and being loved, to compassion, empathy, hope and forgiveness.
Week 6 – Throat Chakra
Week 4 – Solar Plexus Chakra
Week 6 – Throat Chakra
In depth study of the Vishuddha chakra – investigating our communication skills, how we relate to others, express ourselves and our sense of self worth.
Week 7– Third Eye Chakra
Week 8 – The Crown Chakra
Week 8 – The Crown Chakra
In depth study of the Ajna chakra – feeling into our intuition and subtle senses, exploring our dream world, sight – insight and foresight – and decision-making abilities. Here lies our relationship with our inner wisdom and self-knowledge.
Week 8 – The Crown Chakra
Week 8 – The Crown Chakra
Week 8 – The Crown Chakra
In depth study of the Sahasrara chakra – exploring our connections - to the Universal energy, our connection to the divine, our connection between inner life and outer reality and to each other, and our innate wisdom
Namaste! I'm Rosanne...
...and I have built The Chakra Way with a deep passion for yoga and the chakras. If you want to get to know me a little better please take a moment to read my story.
What are the Chakras?
The word chakra means ‘wheel, ‘circle’ or ‘cycle’. There are seven main chakras that line up vertically along the spine from the base up to the crown of the head and can be described as spiral centres of energy within the body.
Our energy flows constantly through our chakras so our work is to keep that flow healthy!
Channels known as a Nadi connects the seven chakras so that energy can flow between them. The energy that flows within the Nadi and within each of us is called Prana. In physical terms the Prana can be thought of as the spinal fluid of the soul and Nadi as the channels through which that energy flows. The chakras act like radio transmitters, sending our and receiving messages from our lives, emotions and activities. This information is stored at a cellular level.
Each chakra has distinct properties that relate to both our physical, emotional and spiritual bodies
This means that we can use the chakras to diagnose our physical body, our emotions and feelings and how we deal with life, as well as our spiritual connections. We can also relate them to a sense, an element, a colour, a sound, a predominant emotion, and significantly, to the endocrine (hormonal) system.
Studying the chakras enables us understand and address where our imbalances lie.
Once we understand our chakras, we can use them as a guide or map to assist us detect issues ranging from subtle imbalances of emotion or attitude to very obvious physical imbalances that show up as pain, illness or disease. This understanding gives us the power of deep awareness of our selves and our mind/body/spirit connection.
Wheels of Life
If each chakra is seen as a spinning wheel or spiral it is clear that for the energy to flow each wheel needs to be moving in synchronicity with the other chakras.
If you were to construct a set of water wheels, for the water to flow easily each wheel would be moving at its own optimum rate. There might be a wheel that is blocked up with weeds or debris and is not moving or is too slow. There may be other wheels where the screws have become loose and they are moving too fast and inefficiently.
It is the same with the flow of energy through the chakras. One thing is for sure – once you have managed to clear out the debris and tighten any loose screws – you will feel the difference very clearly.
Healing our Chakras
The chakras are sensitive sensors of energy – they both receive and send information. That information can be in the form of our thoughts, how we are treated, how we treat ourselves and others, how we perceive the world around us, the behaviours we have been taught and how we treat our beautiful bodies.
Using our yoga practice, meditation and with a new awareness of our energy along with several other techniques we can begin to understand and heal our energy centres so that we can live our lives in balance, in health and with purpose.
When we have nurtured this awareness the relationships in our lives - with partners, family, work, money, and most importantly, the SELF, will start to come into focus and balance.
Chakras and your Yoga Practice
Promote healing and awareness of your energetic system
Our deeper asana work and meditation will guide you towards healing and awareness of your energetic system. You will discover how each chakra reflects an essential aspect of our consciousness and relates to how we cope with life. Chakras embody our spirit in the physical form.
Discovering where you hold any limiting beliefs and begin to understand your negative thought and behaviour patterns can be hugely liberating!
Understand how your physical and energetic bodies are intertwined
Once we accept that our physical and emotional or energetic bodies are so closely aligned, then the practice of yoga becomes much more significant. If you struggle with stiff hips you might also struggle in your personal relationships, if you have on-going knee or ankle trouble it may be that you had a difficult time with your family when you were growing up, if you have digestive issues this may well be connected to your levels of self-confidence.
Find harmony in your body and your life
We can use our yoga practice and the chakras to diagnose our spiritual and physical health and to work with awareness towards finding alignment, balance and harmony in our lives and in our bodies.
We will go deep into a specific yoga practice for each chakra and learn how to use your practice to re-direct your energy and start bringing your chakras back in to balance.