Strong Body & Mind - The Base Chakra
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Yoga & meditation for the Earth Element are the Base Chakra teachings.
We begin with your feet, legs, lower back and pelvic floor. This chakra centre is the base of the lower spine and is the first chapter of the book of self healing. There are seven chakra centres along the spine and up through the body.
The asana build strength in the physical body and create a healthy spine.
The meditations and breathing techniques focus on creating a strong and stable mind.
The Base Chakra teachings help balance emotions such as stress, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, insomnia.
In the course you will learn simple and beautiful practices to support a healthy lifestyle
Bird Song - Click the link to access on my website.
There are 52 Weeks in my book which guides you one week at a time through the whole one year yoga & Ayurveda Course. The first 8 weeks of Bird Song, helps lay down foundations on which you will continue to build for the rest of your life.
I would appreciate it, if you love my work, to honour it, and buy Bird Song. I have a dream you see of setting up a charity.
Bird Song Women's Places, rewilding the land, building small eco housing. Stay for a night or forever, learn crafts and mindfulness. It's a big dream! But we need big dreams. I'll need to sell a lot of books.
I wish these sanctuaries to spring up, everywhere on earth. Maybe we can weave the earth and ourselves back to health again.
The course begins when you have bought yourself a diary or journal.
Make a timetable or jot down some healthy routines.
Start after the New Moon and before the Full Moon. You'll learn why in the Water section of the course.
In your diary write down.
What you want from the course, from life?
Examples might be, to have a healthy lower spine again, to learn techniques to let go of stress, to find my life purpose, to learn more about yoga, to live a beautiful life, to help with my recovery from breast cancer.
Write down your main health issues physical and emotional.
Aim to practice at least one yoga class and one meditation per week.
Daily is recommended for quicker results.
Set up a special if tiny space in your house for your practice, collect things from walking in nature.
Don't jump in the deep end as we often do. Don't give yourself too many commitments. If you don't practice for a while, it doesn't matter. What matters is to keep coming back. You have the rest of your life, to gradually grow stronger, more flexible, calmer. Give yourself the gift of time and love.
The day you begin your yoga or meditation class begin Week 1 of Bird Song
Write the date in your diary and maybe after practicing a class or meditation write a little about your feelings, hopes and dreams. If you have a lot of negative "stuff " surface, this is good, write it down but don't save it, burn it.
The links to yoga classes and other meditations for the Earth Element are below
Yoga Classes for a strong body and mind. Image is from the Hatha Alignment Workshop
The yoga classes in this section help strengthen your whole body, particularly your lower spine, legs and feet. They are slow as you get to know the postures and teach safe alignment for your bodies, strength and flexibility.
There are 4 complimentary yoga classes and the introduction to Bandha short video in this section.
*This section has the most classes. There are 10 yoga classes and workshops.
Build your foundations, yoga is a cultivation practice.
Imagine the teachings for the Base Chakra as the base of a triangle, once stable you can begin to explore more and move upwards.
Learn the asana well, then it's time to flow and explore the Sacral Chakra. Your Sacred Self. What things give you joy.
If all you practice is chair yoga, yoga nidra and the meditations...good. You don't have to be able to practice all the classes before moving on.
The meditations, breathing exercises and yoga asana help promote emotional stability.
Before starting any of the other yoga classes, practice my
1/Foundations of Yoga - Bandha Video. Found here FREE YOGA CLASSES
2/ Try chair yoga no matter how experienced you are. The class is below
3/ Gentle/Relaxation Class FREE YOGA CLASSES
* Practice this class until you feel, confident, comfortable, strong and supported.
These classes are the foundations of your yoga practice and should be returned to often
If you have experience go ahead and try the classes below. Add more depth and detail with the 6 workshops.
4/Hatha Alignment Workshop - Beginners onwards. The Heart of Yoga
5/ Kali Time - Intermediate Class. Strong Women
There are 6 special zoom workshops & yoga classes in this section for students being guided through the course.
I send the links through gradually to you over the 8 weeks via Email and will happily answer any questions.
Book in with me if you wish for guidance there are only a couple of spaces.
The zoom classes and workshops are also available to purchase via my webshop.
They are unique and very special classes and really help you to understand "energy" to feel more and experience more. They are what is known as yogic healing classes. Bringing together the physical, emotional and spiritual.
The Heart & Art of Yoga - Yogic Healing
1/Earth Mudra (hand gestures) Workshop and breathing exercises for inner strength. This class teaches powerful meditation techniques for stress & anxiety.
2/ Love your feet. Hatha Class. Simple but strong.
3/ Strong Spine . Hatha Class. Class for health of the lower or lumber spine.
4/ Yin Yoga & Yogic Healing Workshop with Marma Therapy and self massage for the feet. This class will bring you back down to earth if you are feeling anxious or stressed.
5/ EARTH ENERGY = Strong Foundations. Move your physical yoga practice to a another level
6/ Earth Yantra & Ganesha Mudra. Practice a Yantra Meditation - the first gateway, special images that draw your focus inwards and tell you a story.
Links to meditations for this section
Meditations for this section:
1/ Yoga Nidra - The Heart of Yoga
*Possibly the most important meditation you will
ever practice.
Links to 10 minute meditations.
2/Garnet Crystal Meditation.
3/Three Wise Women.
4/ Ganesha Mudra
Yoga Nidra Meditation I believe this to be the most powerful and important meditation you can practice
Click the link to find a beautiful treatment for headaches
See December 2017 Newsletter
Weaving your golden life into being.
I recommend you practice the Earth Yantra Meditation which in itself is a wisdom lecture. You'll receive the youtube link if you are being guided through the course.
It is available as a download in my Webshop. Cost $10 or email me and Ill send you the Youtube link.
Do a little research, my classes and meditations should help you to see the connections which will guide you later to put together your own treatment plans.
Answer the questions below before moving on to the Water Element/Sacral Chakra
What yoga asana are good for the Base Chakra and why?
Where is Mulha Bandha? FREE YOGA CLASSES
Why is it important to feel grounded and supported?
Kapha Dosha is a combination of The Earth & Water Element
A combination of Base & Sacral Chakra Teachings
Later you will find your own individual dosha or constitution
What foods are good for Kapha and why?
If kapha becomes out of balance what sort of diseases & emotional problems might occur?
Why is The Earth Element good for Stress & Anxiety?
Mantra - Each chakra has it's own chant.
The chant or seed mantra for the earth/base chakra is LAM.
Did you know OM is the seed mantra for the Third Eye Chakra?
Meditative Mind have a lovely guided meditation with chanting on YouTube.
(Root Chakra Meditation. Healing Camp)
The colour of this element/chakra is RED
Crystal Healing is a very important part of Ayurvedic healing. Any red crystals the most powerful being ruby. 2 - 7 carat.
Or wear a red bracelet they were once woven and dyed. Its easy to find a red jade bracelet, if a ruby is beyond your price range!
They were worn when going out onto the land to feel the Sacred connection to it and given in mothers blessing ceremonies.
Or wear red clothing, paint your front door a lovely deep red, or have a red cushion to sit on. Use your own inspiration.
The musical note to balance and heal this area of the body is Low C - This low note begins to vibrate in your lower belly and spine as you chant or sing. It's also the solfreggio scale or frequency 396Hz
:do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti(or si) as heard in teh beautiful movie. The Sound of Music.
The area of your spine is the BASE
My chakra essential oil blend is - Vetiver & Orange. Research these 2 oils and find out why.
Using spices as medicine - The three aromatics
Ayurveda and many other cultures have been using herbs & spices as medicine for thousands of years. Special combinations are used to enhance the therapeutic benefits.
Chair Yoga - For everyone who sits in a chair!
Support via Email or Zoom
Zoom one on one yoga or meditation sessions especially for you can be organised Cost $120
40 minutes.
Ready to move on?
Buy yourself something Red.
A crystal, a scarf, clothing, something lovely that reminds you that you have completed the first section.
Send me an email, maybe some details of how you went and I'll guide you through the next section and send appropriate classes, sequences and meditations.
* I am practicing my own course and have found that I like to buy my gift as soon as I see something that feels right. I bought a beautiful pair of Rhodonite crystal earings a week after I started this section. They are bold and eye catching and wearing them has helped me stay focused.
You'll learn more details about the healing benefits of crystals below and throughout the course.
Section 2 - Flexible & Flowing
Crystal Healing
Can a crystal change your mind ?
Find out a little more in January 2021 Newsletter
I was distracted one day by a lovely picture of some Rhodonite earings on an ad for Healing Rocks Website. At the time I was focusing on the Base Chakra. Click. Click. And I had my gift for myself ready for when I finished this section. But when they arrived I decided that it was better to put them on and wear them to help me keep my focus on the Base Chakra. To remind me that I am strong and growing stronger. They are bigger and bolder than any earings I have worn for a long time. I knew they were connected to physical & emotional strength, they are a red/pink and therefore also for the heart.
Today 7 months later. I found myself picking up THE BOOK OF STONES by Simmons & Ashian and reading about Rhodonite. I am planning a class for the Base Chakra at the hall.
"Rhodonite aids in perceiving where one's talents lie, and in using those talents for the highest good of all. It is a stone of learning and development - encouraging one to expand or perfect one's skills so those skills can help others"
Affirmation - I call forth my hidden talents and abilities, and I use them lovingly for the benefit of all.
So ladies are your crystals just for show?
What positive messages are they sending you?
Some might close their eyes and see how they feel. But I also love to pick up a book and learn more.
A teacher & a student ❤
My Journal - September 2021
I feel a little sad today, surprisingly so
It is time to learn more
I have spent 2 months focusing on the Earth and really feel her in my bones.
I feel the connection between us.
The comfort, strength & power.
I watch the sunrise through the trees
I realise...I am not leaving but adding another layer.
I love the water, to watch the moon, to practice feminine, flowing yoga.
Find out about the health benefits of bay, cinnamon & cardemon and how to make a delicious warming soup that improves digestion here JUNE 2018
There's a lot more and it is all encouraging and positive and seems to me to be a reminder that I am on the right path. Reading this touched something deep and knowing within myself. Not just a message or teaching for me but a message for you, reading this.
I dust off my Sacred Earth CDs and feel my spirits lifting. Julie Ivison
A dreaming story "Tiddalik is a small mischievous and very thirsty frog who appears in one of Australia's best known Creation Stories. It's the story of a frog whose greed results in all of the water in the creeks, lakes and rivers being depleted, resulting in the other animals working together to see it returned."
I think it's time we worked together.
Yoga is not just about ourselves, it is our connection with life.
Our connection with the environment.
Who out there will step up, if not us?
Don't despair, look to the future, plant trees, nurture and grow.
Create beauty Powerful You!