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:
Happy Full Moon!
(Full Moon in Aquarius,
Sunday 29. July)
CLASS TIME NEWS:
As of next
tuesday, AromaYoga will start at 6:30pm, rather than
8pm. We have decided to start the class earlier during
the summer month and will go back to 8pm during the
winter schedule. Hopefull this will work with your
time as well.
Tomorrow nights class will still be
on the old schedule: 8pm-9:30pm.
see you
then.
TREE POSE
During my
travels through Italy/Tuscany these past few weeks, I
admired the beautiful Cypress Tress growing in
abundance and grace everywhere. I could not help
myself, but thinking of Tree Pose, "vriksanana", which
has a lot of familiarities, "standing on one
leg"upright and errect, like the Cypress Tree. Cypress
trees in Italy are quite magestic: ancient, full of
strength and wisdom, they were gracefully reaching
into the sky while they exuded a beautiful musky smell
during the dry summer heat. I have chose to
look deeper into the messages of tress, especially
Cypress ree.
What is
your connection to trees?
Wha is the first thought
when you think of a tree?
Do you have access to a
forest or to be in contact with a tree?
Can you
make time for a tree?
Have you hugged and listened
to a tree today?
Which part of your body/chakras
resonates the most with trees?
Can you
save a tree today?
In
tomorrows AromaYoga class, I want to focus on tree
pose, though in a completely different way than how we
would normally practice tree pose.
Perhaps you can
find sometime before coming to class, even if you
physically cannot find time to be with a tree, but
findig a few moment to mentally connect to an image of
a tree.
Looking forward to seeing you in Tree pose
on tuesday evening.
Namaste,
Tanja
Indira
Devi
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Ancient Cypress Tree
in
Umbria
Nature and plants are full of
wisdom and messages for us human beings.
A tree
growing upright toward the sky, reminds us of the
qualities of uprightness, maturity, and
responsibility.
Trees are a symbol of power, of
wisdom, of fertility, and of life.
If you are
lacking "grounding" in your life, trees, especially
working with the essences and oils of tress can help
us with this.
Sandalwood essential oil applied to
the soles of your feet will help you ground your
energy. Also the root chakra blend, which contains up
to 10 different tree oil,s is very
beneficial.
Different trees represent different
issues and areas of your life and body. Find out to
which tree you feel most attracted to? Is a big, old,
ancient tree full of wisdom? Is it a young, sweet, new
tree with light green leaves, full of new youthfull
energy? Is it a male or a female tree?
See how
it makes you feel, what memories or emotionss are
coming up?___________________________________________________________________
The biggest teaching of the trees
is unconditional
Love!
"The trees are our
chiefs of the green ones, our reiki masters. They were
here first. They have no judgement on us, they look at
us as children. They are here to energize us and heal,
they never break their word."
Debbie
Freund
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Trees are
found in all different traditions, cultures, myths and
spiritual teachings
- In the esoteric
jewish Kabbala tradition, the tree of life is
represented as the symbol of immortality and the
stages of the souls journey toward
eternity.
- The Bodhi Tree under
which Buddha was sitting when he attained
illumination is a representation of the axis of the
world and the tree of life.
- In several african
myth man is said to be born from a
tree.
- In the Norse
mythology the great tree Yggdrasil was the axis of
the world, its roots holding the lower world of the
earth spirits together,: ROOT+NAVEL CHAKRA, its
trunk maintaining the middle of the world of man:
SOLAR PLEXUS+ HEART CHAKRA, and its branches home to
the upper world of the gods: THROAT, THIRD EYE+CROWN
CHAKRA.
- In the vedic texts
and the Upanishads the universe is represented as a
tree upside down, spreading its roots into the sky
and plunging its branches down below into the earth.
The reverse action is symbolizing the life force
from the branches, coming down into the
earth.
- The medicine men of
certain Australian tribes used in their ceremoies a
magic tree which they planted upside down as a
symbol of gesture.
- Many cultures have
the traditions of planting a tree when a child is
born.
- In an ancient "mardi
Gras tradition in Germany, women traditionally hit
with fir branches so that they would bear
children.
- Christianity
incorporated an ancient tradition where the rebirth
of light after the midwinter darkness was celebrated
with an evergreen tree, the Christmas Tree, which
symbolized the continuity of
life.
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Connecting
through:
TOUCH, SIGHT,
HEARING, SMELLING,
TASTING
by Patrice Bouchardon
from the book: the healing energies of
trees
To start with it, it
is enough to meet a tree on the aestetic level. If you
can reach the point of doing that without limiting
your reaction to its beautiful, its uglu, that is a
big step and you will have lready opened up a new
inner space.
To go further, first
learn to move about in a forest with
awareness.
Let yourself be
led to a
tree.
Start by sending an inner greeting to
show your respect and appreciation. Then go around the
tree, feeling from which side you should apporach it.
Just as you would not enter a house by the window, you
should not enter a tres energy field without first
finsing the best entry point.
When you have a
sense of where to come closer, approach the trunk and
sit either facing it or against it, find what feels
right in relation to a particular tree. Be open to
doing things differently if you come to meet this
again, or another one.
If you have any
experience with a tree, I would love for you to share
it with
me.
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What trees can heal in us
Physical level:
Reconnecting with our body
Releasing
tension
Regaining confidence in your
body
Emotional
level:
Releasing personal fears
Learning
to live in the present
Rediscovering your inner
child
Mental
level:
Enlarging your field of
perception
Spiritual
level:
Experiencing the life force
Making
the lik with life
Excerpts from
P.
Bouchardon
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Please come to
Centerpoint Studios weekly ongoing ChakraAromaYoga
Class.
The level of this yoga
class is from advanced beginner to intermediate. I do
try to accommodate 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 Street or V/ B/D/F to Broadway
Lafayette
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VRIKSHASANA
TREE
POSE
(vrik-SHAHS-anna)
vrksa =
tree
Stand in Tadasana.
Shift your weight slightly onto the left foot, keeping
the inner foot firm to the floor, and bend your right
knee. Reach down with your right hand and clasp your
right ankle.
Draw your right
foot up and place the sole against the inner left
thigh; if possible, press the right heel into the
inner left groin, toes pointing toward the floor. The
center of your pelvis should be directly over the left
foot.
Rest your hands
on the top rim of your pelvis. Make sure the pelvis is
in a neutral position, with the top rim parallel to
the floor.
Lengthen your
tailbone toward the floor. Firmly press the right foot
sole against the inner thigh and resist with the outer
left leg. Press your hands together in Anjali Mudra.
Gaze softly at a fixed point in front of you on the
floor about 4 or 5 feet away.
Stay for 30
seconds to 1 minute. Step back to Tadasana with an
exhalation and repeat for the same length of time with
the legs reversed.
Vrksasana clarifies
just how challenging it can be to stand on one
leg.
Benefits :
Strengthens thighs, calves, ankles, and
spine
Stretches the groins and inner thighs, chest
and shoulders
Improves sense of balance
Relieves
sciatica and reduces flat feet
Variations :
Stretch your arms straight up toward the ceiling,
parallel to each other, palms facing, or touch the
palms together forming an inverted V with the
arms.
Deepen
the Pose
As with Tadasana , you
can challenge your balance by practicing this pose
with your eyes closed. Learn to balance without any
reference to the outer environment.
References from Yoga
Journal
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Chakras
and Tree Pose
Like in every
AromaYoga class, I would like to address the chakras.
What chakra can you relate the tree pose to? The most
obvious chakra that comes to mind, yes, is the root
chakra. But I have discovered that the tree is a
universal pose and addresses many more chakras than
just the root.
THERE IS A TREE
WITHIN EACH AND EVERYONE OF US
In the human
body many distribution systems are organized around a
structure of a tree.
The blood circulate from the
heart, the root and from the
there the branches into the arteries, veins and
smaller blood vessels.
The roots of the tree
can be seen as our legs. Standing firm, grounding into
the earth to get strength and energy.
The trunk of the
tree, relating further into our body, moving the
energy upwards, bringing nourishment into the rest of
our body, solar plexus chakra.
The branches of a
tree, relate to our arms, which are connected to the
heart chakra, extending love out into the
world.
The leaves
and fruit are the efforts and results of our
daily work, our yoga practice and living unconditional
love.
Blessed
Be!
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What are
Chakras?
Chakras
are psychic centers 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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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
Indira
Devi
April Aromatics
tanjab1@mac.com
http://www.aprilaromatics.com
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