Yoga for Healing and Well-being
Week One: EARTH
Affirmations: I am grounded, I am held, I am stable, I am safe, I am cared for, I am contained, I am rooted
BODY: Feet to knees, bone structure, skin and blood vessels
NERVOUS SYSTEM: Amygdala (am I safe or am I in danger?)
CHAKRA: Muladhara
SEED MANTRA: Lam
SYMBOL: Yellow cube
SENSE: Smell
“It seems a great paradox that this earthiest and most basic of the chakras guides us to the highest consciousness.”
Muladhara is our root chakra, representing our most basic needs and energies. It is said to sit in the cervix in female bodies and within the perineum in male bodies.
Muladhara chakra is represented by a crimson red four-petaled lotus, containing the symbol for earth element: a yellow cube. Within the yellow cube lies an inverted triangle, symbol for shakti or creative energy, and the serpent of kundalini, coiled around a grey lingam.
Moola means “root” in Sanskrit and I believe that integrating an awareness of this energy can help us ground into our own true nature, to the Earth that sustains, and to our innate wholeness.
Balancing earth energy
+EXCESS EARTH+
sluggish
stuck, stagnant
closed-off
“deer in the headlights”
-DEFICIENT EARTH-
anxious
afraid
scattered
un-grounded
-BALANCED EARTH+
stable and steady
confident
grounded
sequence
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