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COUPON 30% off on your first massage or energy healing. Good through January 31, 2006. ABOUT ENERGY HEALING The energy healers at Namaste are all certified in Brennan Healing Science, an advanced form of energy healing taught at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. The school, the largest of its kind in the world, is a four-year college with campuses in the United States and Europe. Students learn a sophisticated method of hands on healing that rebalances and repairs the energy field. Developmental and transpersonal psychologies as well as spiritual studies are also major areas of study. We combine energy work with a conscious understanding of how changes in your energy flow effect changes in your awareness. Brennan Healing Science has pioneered an advanced form of energy healing that empowers you to understand how your challenges are sacred opportunities to develop a more soulful way of living and to make choices that support your life. Nine Benefits of Energy Healing • Balances your energy field • Restore well-being and emotional stability • Quicken the healing process • Compliments psychological work • Brings perspective to life’s situations • Quantum leaps in the organization between body and mind • Develops the power, intention and ability to accomplish life’s goals • Direct first-person experience of higher states of mind • Growing ability to integrate higher, more coherent levels of energy |
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BHUTA-SAMATA This Sanskrit term refers to a state of harmony, radiant health and expanded awareness that is the result of a hatha yoga practice that balances the five elements (ether, air, fire, water and earth) throughout the seasons of the year. It leads to high sense perception and longevity but the goal of the practice is conscious evolution. |
THE WINTER SOLSTICE
At 1:36 pm on December 21, the sun entered 0 degrees Capricorn and winter officially began. Your intuitive abilities are now at their peak; your wisdom is most available to you. Resist the urge to rush, shop and celebrate. Set aside an hour or two and get to your yoga mat or your meditation cushion. It has never been easier to access the voice of your True Self.
We are in the midst of a Sagittarius moon cycle. The archetype of this sign is the Centaur. The Centaur is also the name of a level of consciousness described by the noted author and pioneer in the field of evolutionary consciousness, Ken Wilbur. The Centaur is a seeker of Truth. He has the courage (a quality of the lung developed in the autumn practice) and the clarity of intention to act on insight and build new forms to support a more elegant design. This year, we get our solstice less than a week after the activating energy of the full Sagittarius moon. It serves as a boost to take us into the longest night, when we dive deep into the unknown. It may feel backwards to be stirred to make changes but have no idea what the changes may look like. Those insights evolve out of your winter contemplation. What this means is that the ‘wind horse’ energy to make changes needs to be carried over, not immediately discharged. The lung takes in the prana and the kidney stores it. Fill the lung to feed the kidney. You get to really digest and integrate; include and transcend. The changes you make will unfold from your core, not your personality. Your transformation is integrated when it is an impulse that arises from the depths of your soul’s longing and blossoms in balance in all parts of your life. The sky mysteries are the field from which our soul mysteries grow. In Gratitude, Elizabeth |
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The Winter Practice / Asana of the Month – BADAKONASANA 
During winter, the Yin cycle predominates in the climate and our bodies. The goal of the winter practice is to replenish the strength, stamina and vitality of the body. It is a time of drawing inward, listening deeply and receiving insight. The autumn practice strengthens the lung to take in more prana and cleanse the body of toxins. What nourishment the lung takes in, is stored in the kidney. The winter practice focuses on transforming the kidney to be a fluid, pliant ground for rebirth and creation. You will need four blocks, a blanket or wedge and a strap for this pose. 1. Sit with your feet together, souls touching like mirror images. Place the heels the same distance from your pubic bone as the distance from the top of your pubic bone to the center of your sternum. Strap yourself in so that you are sitting at a 90% angle at the hips. Begin ujayji pranayama. Create an image of the perineum as a circle. The circle’s center is your root chakra. Front is the pubic bone, back is the coccyx, the hips are on the horizontal borders, the groins and the sit-bones make up the diagonals. Visualize a compass with all points equidistant from each other. Let the perineum act like a plug in an electric socket and, as you find your vertical axis, you arise on it, aligning the pelvis, the torso and the head. Experience the flow of the prana shakti supporting you and sitting is much less of an effort. 2. Suptabadakonasana. Walk yourself back onto the blocks so the shoulders and head are supported as you recline. Make sure that your chin is no higher than your nose. You want the throat open, neck straight. Allow the shoulders and lungs to spread wide from left to right. Notice if one side is dropped. Imagine the center of your heart chakra (in the middle of your sternum). Again, use the compass image to map from center, making the breast bone front, between the blades back, 3 inches below your armpits the left and right, and the nipples and shoulder blades the diagonals. Using the template of the whole, expanding everything from your center to align a dropped lung. You may find that instead of a lifting or dropping movement that is performed muscularly and cognitively, that another, deeper dimension of your being responds. One that has been there all along, underutilized. Look for a sensation of ease and radiation. You are not correcting what has already shown itself as a pattern. You are creating a new pattern, or more accurately, remembering the original pattern. Stay here as long as you feel the benefits. Maintain the energetic charge necessary to reap the benefits by continuing to focus on the breath and remaining "plugged in" (hips at 90%, pubis released toward the floor). 3. Badakonasana as a forward bend. Slowing walk yourself up to sitting. Walk your hands forward and “plug” them in to the floor. Continue folding forward at the hips, not the back. You can place a block or two on your feet as a headrest if your head does not touch your feet. Stay here for a minimum of 10 breaths but do not sit back on the back of the perineum. Continue to drive yourself forward toward the pubic bone. This will open the hips and stimulate the fluidity of the kidney. The kidney needs to become pliant to be the vessel of chi. |
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Five Element Yoga
When we tie our practice to the rhythms of nature, we provide a ground for a renewed appreciation of our rhythms, our body’s ability to heal itself and our potential for transformation. |
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