Whew! Between traveling, having guests, being sick - it's been good to get back to normal... whatever THAT means.
I finally have been able to get back into yoga class, as a student, with Amy Likins. I don't know how she does it. She teaches nonstop, and never has time to be a student. I know she has a dedicated home practice (as we all should), but home practice means YOU are still the instructor. It's priceless to let someone else take the lead, not knowing where you might end up.
So in class last night, Amy concluded the practice with bija mantra. The bijas are seed sounds, each associated with the primal energy of a particular chakra. Root chakra is lam, sacral chakra is vam, solar plexus chakra is ram, heart chakra is yam, throat chakra is ham, third eye chakra is om. The crown chakra is described as the sound at the end of om, or a silent om.
As we sounded these bijas, an interesting thing happened. First, let me say that all my babies seemed to like yoga. They normally became very still during practice. However, Peanut was very active in class last night, shifting and moving. Peanut settled in during the restorative end poses, however.
So as we are sounding the bijas, I noticed Peanut's behavior changing. It wasn't random. Peanut was alternatively very still and very active as we moved from one bija, from one chakra, to the next. Particularly active were heart and sacral. Particularly calm were solar plexus and root. This is interesting because the energy vibrations of the chakras alternate between ida nadi (the feminine, lunar, receptive, yin energy) and pingala nadi (the male, solar, expressive, yang quality). Since we don't know if Peanut is a boy or a girl... wonder what THAT means???
I finally have been able to get back into yoga class, as a student, with Amy Likins. I don't know how she does it. She teaches nonstop, and never has time to be a student. I know she has a dedicated home practice (as we all should), but home practice means YOU are still the instructor. It's priceless to let someone else take the lead, not knowing where you might end up.
So in class last night, Amy concluded the practice with bija mantra. The bijas are seed sounds, each associated with the primal energy of a particular chakra. Root chakra is lam, sacral chakra is vam, solar plexus chakra is ram, heart chakra is yam, throat chakra is ham, third eye chakra is om. The crown chakra is described as the sound at the end of om, or a silent om.
As we sounded these bijas, an interesting thing happened. First, let me say that all my babies seemed to like yoga. They normally became very still during practice. However, Peanut was very active in class last night, shifting and moving. Peanut settled in during the restorative end poses, however.
So as we are sounding the bijas, I noticed Peanut's behavior changing. It wasn't random. Peanut was alternatively very still and very active as we moved from one bija, from one chakra, to the next. Particularly active were heart and sacral. Particularly calm were solar plexus and root. This is interesting because the energy vibrations of the chakras alternate between ida nadi (the feminine, lunar, receptive, yin energy) and pingala nadi (the male, solar, expressive, yang quality). Since we don't know if Peanut is a boy or a girl... wonder what THAT means???
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