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Pranayama For The Second Chakra

This is the third in our pranayama series, reviewing the basic principles and focusing on the second chakra this time. We start to learn the different gentle muscular contractions we can do to affect the flow of energy in the spine.

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Rhythmic Breathing

This pranayama technique comes from the Yantra yoga tradition, a Tibetan yoga style, which I learned from my friend Lama Karma. I practice this besides my other pranayama exercises and I noticed that it is very helpful to concentrate and stay focussed! I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

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Yin & Yang Pranayama 1st chakra

This is the second practice on our new little pranayama program; we recap the simplicity of yin and yag pranayama and add the awareness of the first chakra – and the resonance that follows. Feel free to jump in even if you didn’t get to do the first one yet.

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Yin and Yang Pranayamas – Ox and Plough

A simple pranayama exercise exploring not so much lung capacity but the ability to follow and gently control the flow of prana. Yin Pranayama – or Following the Ox for the Taoists – and Yang Pranayama – Pushing the Plough – are the sweet basis of much to come.

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About Pranayamas

There is much confusion in yoga about what is pranayama, and its goals in our practices. Pranayma means the control of prana, the life force that circulates in our bodies and keeps us alive. Moving air in the lungs is one way of becoming aware of it, but not the only one. A short talk […]

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Ride the Breath

This is a continuous flow kind of class, where the challenge lies not so much on the postures, but on the coordination with the breath. Even when challenged – of course we’ll do some balance and some warrior stuff – just keep riding the wind of your breath. We finish with a few delicious yin […]

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Morning Express: Yin and Kapalabhati

This practice is especially nice for when you are recovering from tiredness or illness, or when your body needs something else than a workout. We start with some yin poses, not staying too long but enough to get the chi going, and then spend some time practicing kapalabhati, a strong breathing exercise that clears the sinuses […]

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Meditation on Third Chakra

Manipura, the third chakra, is maybe the chakra that is most active collectively in our time and age. It relates to our tendency to worry and its opposite, our capacity to feel contentment; to our attachment to likes and dislikes and our discipline to overcome personal tendencies. This is not a long lecture on the […]

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Morning Express: Front & Back

We start on the floor as (almost) always and build up to a gentle flow focusing on the front and the back of the body, with nourishment and structure. We finish with a meditation awakening sushumna, the energy channel that rises from the tail bone towards the top of the head.

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Second Chakra Flow

This class is a little bit different, as it uses body movements to awaken some energy around the lower belly, house of our second chakra. We move around quite a bit, activating muscles for sure, in the hope that when we sit for meditation later in class it will be easier to feel the area. […]

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Move, Breathe, Meditate

In this class we put a few of the Limbs of Yoga into practice. Keeping things simple, we move a little, try some breathing techniques, move some more, meditate. Everything we always do, but now with some added background info.

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