This is what a blog is all about, right? I love teaching yoga, so I’m excited to share this upcoming workshop I’m teaching at my favorite studio, Southern Star Yoga Center, just in time for Valentine’s Day!

Register at the link!

http://southernstaryoga.com/workshops/

I grew up singing and around lots of really good singers and musicians, so when my yoga teacher training referred to the heart chakra as “the unstruck note,” because it sounds without being plucked or played, it made perfect sense to me. It was very natural to me to begin imagining the resounding heart as part of a chord.

The heart has its own unique vibration that plays throughout our lives. When the heart is healthy, and we listen to its genuine needs, we can notice when it encounters other hearts that bolster its sound and support it thriving. A healthy, balanced heart-note in the individual plays in harmony with the two closest chakras to it—the solar plexus, and the throat. The solar plexus is the center of our will, our personal power, our self-determination. It can be out of balance in a way that is controlling toward others, i.e abuses our connection to our power; or it can be out of balance in a way that stifles, or fails to honor our connection to our power. The throat chakra is where our expression resides. It can be out of balance in an overactive way that might drown out our heart’s ability to listen to others, or it can be out of balance in a stifled way that harms the quality of our out-going communication with others.

The asana practices and meditations in this workshop are meant to build awareness of these three critical energy centers, to stimulate and then calm these three chakras, and develop a more balanced and harmonious, loving Self. I hope you’ll join me!