Exercises
Sensing Chakras Exercise 1
1. Achieve a relaxed state. Begin by sitting comfortably in a manner that facilitates placement of your hand over your trunk or your partner's trunk. Do a few rounds of deep, slow breathing.
2. Place your hand 6-12 inches at the level of the shoulders at the front of the chest. Bring your hand slowly up and down varying from the 6 inch to the 12 inch distance. As you slowly do this, you should begin to sense fullness/ tingling/cold/heat/etc. at a certain level.
3. Now slowly, while continuing to breathe rhythmically, sweep the trunk(bring your hand from one end to the other of the trunk). Vary the height of your hand while doing this. You will get a sense of different pockets of energy. You are sensing chakras.
Chakra balancing Exercise 2
1. Lion posture to rid yourself of used or dirty prana is helpful.
2. Have a straight spine or an erect spine. You may sit in a chair, lie down(Savasana-dead man's pose), sit cross-leeged, sit Zen, sit in Lotus or any variation. Importantly, you should be comfortable with your spine straight.
3. Breathe slowly, deeply, and abdominally, The rhythm should be 1:1 for inhalation and exhalation with your holds empty(lungs empty) and full(lungs full) being one-half of the length of the inhalations and exhalations. Do not strain with your holds!
4. Once you reach a solid rhythm, begin the actual exercise. Envision a light blue light washing down your body from head to toe through 3-6 rounds( a round is one cycle of inhalation-hold-exhalation-hold) of deep breathing.
5. Using 3 rounds of deep breathing for each chakra, envision each chakra( with its symbol in its color at its designated location ) lightin up sequentially from the Saturn chakra to the Crown chakra. If you have trouble getting a chakra to light up, repeat the attempt until you get the response. You may want to add the associated sound or alignment statement to help awaken the chakra.
6. Envision all the chakras equally lit. Use 3-6 rounds of breathing to do this. The chakras should be gently pulsating in rhythm to your respirations or heartbeat.
7. Once you have them balanced in color, size, clarity, bring white light with gold flecks around you from head to toe to complete the balancing. This white, gold-flecked casing should be also pulsating in rhythm to your respriations or heartbeat.
Note:
The Dharmananda Yoga Chakra Balancing Exercise works to align the chakras. It is a visualization mental psychic healing technique. You may combine it with a relaxation or meditation routine. It may be done seasonally(the equinox and solstice times are beneficial), monthly(the full and mew Moon days are beneficial), weekly(Sunday 12 noon), or daily(dawn and dusk). I recommend at least weekly use. Please use the above chart for reference