Aroma
Boutique:
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Here you can find the products
used in the Aromayoga class. You can read about how the
products are made and what ingredients are used. The
essential oils help to open up the seven chakras or energy
centers and can help to release blocked areas of your
chakras. They also aid in releasing memory and emotion that
are stored within these centers of your
body.
If you
do have any allergies and sensitivity to essential oils,
please let me know before class, or just do not participate
in applying them during our pratice. All ingredients used
are complelety free of any synthetic additives and chemicals
and should not cause any irritations, since they are diluted
in a carrier oil. All ingriedients are either organic or
wild
crafted.
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Tuesday
AromaYoga Class:
29. May
2007
I hope that you
all had a beautiful Memorial
Day or
Pentecost week-end.
On
Memorial Day we can honor all the people that left
this earth before us, especially those who have done
so through the effect of war. It is a reminder to pray
for peace in the world and for an end of useless
war.
Pentecoste, is also a
Christian holiday, celebrating the coming of the holy
sprit, who brings joy upon the earth. On Pentecoste,
which in greek translates to the "fifties day" after
Easter, the disciples of Christ were miraculously
speaking all kind of different languages and everybody
understood each other.
For me, Yoga is that language. It is
a way of living my life and expressing myself, for
everyone to understand. It can be practised by all
religions, by all kind of different speaking people
and in all countries, exuding the same effect, healing
and joy upon us.
I will be teaching
2 classes at Centerpoint on tuesday, 29.
May.
I am
subbing my friend Jill Cameras class, which is a
beginners vinyasa class. Time:
6:30pm-7:45pm.
And after that my ususal
scheduled AromaYoga class at 8pm.
The Chakra theme of the
week will be the Troat Chakra. (Yes, I am skipping the
Heart Chakra/ Anahata Chakra this week, which would be
the next one in our upward journey through the
chakras).
Though through the connection of
the pentecostal language miracle I want to dedicate
this class to the 5th chakra, the Throat chakra, which
is the chakra associated to communication and
expressing our deepest truth, for which we need no
language.
Also
we just entered the sign of Gemini, which is ruling
Communication and Information and represents the ideal
form of communicating wisdom with compassion and joy.
Check the link for more info and use the tools
of the Throat chakra below to further work with this
energy. Beautifully it is all connected; once we open
up to spirit, you can see synchronicity
flow.
Full Moon in
Sagittarius
Thursday, May 31,
2007
Blessed
Be!
See you tomorrow!
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Please come to
Centerpoint Studios weekly ongoing ChakraAromaYoga
Class.
The level of this yoga
class is from advanced beginner to intermedeate. I do
try to accomodate all levels. If you have no
experience in yoga at all, you are welcome to just
join in and sit on your mat. Observe, visualize,
meditate and experience the oils and the sounds. No
one will be send away and there is absolutely no
judgement. This is a feel good class and healing does
occur from being part of the circle. Its about healing
from the inside out and not about how many advanced
poses you can do.
Please always listen to
your body and only do what feels right at that certain
moment. Please let me know about any injuries that you
have before we start class.
Class is every Tuesday
evening from 8pm to 9:30pm.
Centerpoint
Studios are located at: 324, Lafayette Street, 7th
floor (just north of Houston) By subway: take the 6 to
Bleeker, or W/R to Prince Sreet or V/ B/D/F to
Broadway Lafayette
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Learn more about the
Chakras:
Here
you will find some helpful information to educate
yourself about the chakras, before you come to
class
This link willl explain in more detail about
the seven energy centers, the chakras and their
importance and impact to our physical
bodies.
What are
Chakras?
Chakras
are psychic centres that lie along the axis of the
spine as consciousness potentials. The chakras are not
materially real and are to be understood as situated,
not in the gross body, but in the subtle or etheric
body. Repositories of psychic energies, they govern
the whole condition of being. In the Hindy tradition
they are usually represented as
lotuses.
As kundalini energy
reaches each chakra, that lotus opens and lift its
flower; and as soon as she leaves for a higher chakra,
the lotus closes its petals and hangs down,
symbolizing the activation of the energies of the
chakra and their assimilation to kundalini.
Each of the chakras,
according to the Tantras, corresponds to one of the
elements of which the known world is compounded.
Muladhara represents solidity; Svadhisthana,
liquidity; Manipura, the gaseous; Anahata, the aerial;
Vishuddha, the etheric, or space.
This ascent through the
chakras can be viewed as an upward journey through the
self.
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The Troat
Chakra:
Vishuddhi
Chakra
Expressing
Chakra 5
is located in the region of the neck and shoulders and
is the center of communication
and creativity. Its color is a
bright
turquoise blue, mixing the deep indigo
of the sixth chakra with the green of the heart. Its
lotus has 16
petals, upon
which are inscribed all the vowels of the Sanskrit
language. As we enter chakra 5, we are crossing deeper
into the realms of mind and spirit.
The Throat chakra
is associated, in the body with the throat, ears,
thyroid, mouth, jaw and parathyroid
This lotus is
called Visuddha, which means "Purification." To
successfully reach and open the fifth chakra, the body
must attain a certain level of purification.
It
is teaching us to fearlessly express our
truth and hear
the sound of the universe and to be heard and
understood, to transmit and receive the Truth.
To
open our voice,
speak our truth
and to free our
creativity.
It is to find harmony with all
the vibrating around us and to express your depest
self.
This chakra filters messages
from the body, so that the mind is not flooded with
unnecessary distractions.
The element
associated with this chakra is Ether, or akasha,
meaning "spirit," as well as the element of sound.
All sound
is a vibration, and all things, living and nonliving,
have a unique vibration.
The Hindus believe that
the universe itself is made of sound, Without sound and language,
there is no form.
From sound we get
communication. Communication is the activity
and function of the fifth chakra.
Communication involves both
listening and speaking.
The fifth chakra is also
a center of creativity, another form of symbolic
communication. As we open up this center, we open up
our creative potential. The greater our resonance
within, the greater the power within our creations.
Experiment with the
resonant frequency of your chakras by chanting the
following tones with each chakra, varying the pitch
from low to higher as you climb up the chakras. Try to
find the pitch that resonates with your body. Work on
letting your sound be full-bodied and
resonant.
Chakra One:
LAM
Chakra Two:
VAM
Chakra Three:
RAM
Chakra Four:
YAM
Chakra Five:
HAM
Chakra Six: SILENT OR
OHM
Chakra Seven: SILENT OR
OHM
Tools to balance the Throat
chakra:
- Chanting is an
activity that increases the overall resonance of our
being, allowing all our internal systems to enter
into a rhythmic harmony.
- Making sounds,
moving your mouth in all different ways and applying
all different vowls:
A,E,I,O,U.
- Laughing
- Singing,
- Speaking beautiful
words are ways to stimulate the fifth
chakra.
- Listening to
music
- Listening to someone
speaking a different
language
- Having conversations with
your body, listening to the way it feels, to
its aches and pains.
- Writing and
communicating our truth this is a way that can
benefit us to express ourselves.
- Keeping a journal,
opening the channnels through writing, inviting our
deepest self, from our inner core to be released.
(For me this is a great way to "let go" of chatter
in my brain, without harming other people and still
"feeling heard").
- Trying to become a
good listener,
but most of all listening to yourself and
what deepest core is telling
you.
- Living a creative
life
- Practising clear
communications with
others
- Practising to speak
clearly
- Prayer is one more
way to communicate with spirit, our higher self,
God.
- Medition, becoming silent,
(fifteen minutes a day).
- Yoga exercises,
such as neck rolls, shoulder shruggs, shoulder
stand, camel, bridge, plow are helpful to stimulate
the thyroid
gland.
Deficientcies in the
5th
chakra:
- Fear of
speaking
- Exessive
shyness
- Having
secrets
- Gossiping
- Difficulites putting
things into words
- Stuttering
- Difficultiy being
silent
- Being
loud
- Talking
inapropriately
- Inability to keep
confidences
In Tibetan Buddhism, this
chakra is associated with the dream state of
consciousness. Both Tibetans and Taoists use
this chakra to access the dream state and develop the
faculty of lucid dreaming. In the Hindu tradition the
third eye chakra is associated with visions and
dreams.
Suggested
affirmation: "I express my deepest truth
gracefully, respectfully, and confidently."
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webdesign for my website and would like to work in
exchange for chakra/aromatherapy products or free
classes/privates. If you are interseted please contact
me and let me know.
Namaste.
If you have any
information or articles that you would like to share
in this newsletter, I would love to add it to the
weekly emails. I welcome any information.
I am
welcoming any feedback on this newsletter, anything
that I can improve or add to. Please let me
know.
Thank
you!
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As a
courtesy to other yogis, please try to be on time. If
you want to reserve your space you can do so by going
to www.mindbodyonline.com,
click on yoga and then enter centerpointstudios. Its
easy.
Aromatic
Blessings,
Tanja
April
Aromatics
tanjab1@mac.com
http://www.aprilaromatics.com
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