Chakra Savvy™ with Jessica Goulding

Welcome back to Season Two of Jess on the Mountain! Last season, we started at the bottom of the mountain (at our root chakra) and worked our way up to the top, exploring each of the seven chakras as we journeyed alongside one another. This season, we're going to start where we left off - at the top of the mountain! As we slowly work our way back down through the chakras, our focus this season wil...

On the mountain of life, today we consider our choice of hiking partners, romantic or otherwise. After all, it’s not just you on the mountain! And everyone affects each other, through the chakras, on an energetic level. If we’re to experience Unity in the spiritual realm, it helps to have an experience of unity in the material world. This is how I see the crown and heart connected. Human love as a...

Today is a great conversation about linking, meditation, and yoga therapy. Our guest is Amanda Green, who is a Certified Yoga Therapist and expert in teaching and guiding students and teachers in meditation, breath, postures, and chanting to foster healing and balance at Innermost Yoga and Yoga Well Institute. (Scroll down for whole bio and links.) 2:20 Amanda's journey 5:10 What is Yoga Thera...

Today I’m celebrating how meaningful and fun the three workshops I taught last week were, and I want you to benefit from what we experienced. So stick with me to hear about the myth and the truth that emerged from this workshop!  You can catch the workshop replay through June 18 when you sign up for the Chakra Savvy: Reset Your Life Game Plan FREE Trial Get started or continue on your personal cha...

Today I have a few stories to share with you about hitting the reset button in any area of your life.  Helpful resources: 3 questions to get you started: Chakra Savvy Quickie Quiz⁠ ⁠ Start with settling into some journaling questions and a video guide with the Chakra Check-In Self Assessment   Listen about each chakra and keep it all straight with the Chakra Savvy Cheat Sheet  Resource links, as w...

Take a look through the lens of the chakras at living life on purpose, and how applying chakra yoga wisdom and tools can take you from “What’s blocking me?” to “Oh-I get it!” and make the changes you decide to change. Get started or continue on your chakra journey: Join Jess June 6, 7, or 10 at the FREE online workshop  Life on Purpose: Chakra Yoga for Tuning in and Finding Yours 3 questions to ge...

We now enter the realm of Chakra 5, Vishuddha, and “the voice.” You know, the one in your head that criticizes, doubts, and often convinces you that you can’t or shouldn’t do something that you desire? It’s the one that prevents the feeling of freedom in your life. It can hold you back from really stepping into your power and truest sense of self.  I recently worked on kicking mine to the curb, an...

Wendy Vickery is a Bio-Energy Healing Practitioner and trainer as well as a Kundalini Yoga Teacher.  She has over 20 years’ experience in the holistic health field, and in experiencing our body’s incredible healing capabilities. She sat down with Jess last week in Chacala, Mexico, to talk about this healing modality, her personal inspiring story, and her favorite hack to start healing yourself rig...

Today’s guest is Kelly Emmert, owner of The Art Garage, in Austin Texas. Kelly has been creating art since childhood, and that love helped her create a vision for her future.  From starting her business in her garage, to outgrowing that space and building a studio, to now expanding to a second location, Kelly is a master manifester.   She shares with us her story, her philosophy, and hopefully ins...

This week I'm happy to offer you 3 simple practices that can help balance the heart chakra, and build awareness around how love and compassion are operating in your life. There is one breath practice, one meditation, and one journaling exercise to get you going. Also, over on my YouTube channel (@jessgoulding) I'm putting out four 75-minute hatha classes from my series, "Into the Hear...

Today we enter the heart chakra where we encounter love and relationships. Anahata means unstruck. The you within you that was, is, and always will be, perfect, whole and complete. An excessive heart chakra can lead to codependency, poor boundaries, clinginess, jealousy,  being overly self sacrificing. A deficient heart chakra can make you withdrawn, cold, critical, judgemental, intolerant, narcis...

Today I’m inspired by the book ⁠ Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, ⁠ by Brené Brown, and her explanation of hope–what it is, what it isn’t, and what I realized is true about hope from a chakras perspective. In the Austin area? Check out Cafe Malta! www.cafemaltaaustin.com Start or continue your chakra journey: 3 questions to get you started: Ch...

Think of chakra blocks as boulders on your path or dams in your river. Your whole system flows with your life force, your prana, your energy–but anytime there’s something that flows there is opportunity for a roadblock. What does it mean to be blocked? What are some causes of blocks? What are shadow sides of each chakra? Working with shadows Physical, mental, spiritual, habitual blocks Get on the...

A feeling of abundance, when your cups overflow, is a sign of a healthy and supportive chakra one and two. All your basic needs are met, so you can enjoy your life and its pleasures.  But when life gets to be too much, too spread out, whatever energy you have is pouring out everywhere, not held within the steady boundaries of the riverbanks, you might become overly emotional or sensitive as your b...

If you or someone you know is a little "extra," this episode is for you! This episode is an interview with Chelsea Cohen, a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor. We get to have a great conversation ( spoiler alert--it's chakra two emotions stuff! ) about so many things, including: > Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and what it’s premise is. > What is the middle path? > W...

This episode is all about self care, specifically care of your physical self,  beyond the bubble bath and pedicures. This is REAL care–not the recommendations of health gurus who sell you supplements, or IG posts that remind you you are worthy. This is self love at chakra one, at the base of your mountain: giving your body  grace, gratitude, and goodness.  If you've ever had an injury or a chr...

This episode is all about our body’s cues and communication with us. I’m hoping that you will open up to a relationship with your body that is inquisitive, compassionate, and caring. We continue our conversation around muladhara, or chakra one. Here are some clues we discuss in listening to our body's signals: Where is the pain or tightness, and what chakra might that correspond to?  How does...

Today’s episode is all about embodiment. We ask, are you actually living IN your body, WHERE your body is? Or are you more in your head, with your body as a bit of an afterthought? This is the realm of muladhara, the work of the root chakra. Physically, we place muladhara at the base of the spine.  Metaphorically, we place this at the base of the mountain. Losing the sense of connection to ou...

Today’s episode is all about self-awareness:  What does self-awareness really mean?  How does being self-aware help my life and well-being?  How do I know if I am self-aware?  How could I improve my self-awareness? You are not alone on the mountain of life, but it sure is good to take some time to figure out how much you know about your closest climbing companion–YOURSELF.&nbsp...

Today we're asking the question "What's a chakra"?  In this episode, I'm going to simplify this large concept of what a chakra is, which will hopefully be useful as we continue this journey together in learning how to use the chakras as a tool for self-awareness. Love, Jess Subscribe now so you never miss an episode! Take the Chakra Savvy Quickie Quiz to find out which chakra is the best plac...

Hello, and welcome to the first episode of my new podcast, Jess On The Mountain.  I’m Jess Goulding, a longtime yoga teacher, certified yoga therapist, and chakra system expert. Jess On The Mountain is an ongoing conversation about gaining self-awareness as you move up, down, and around this mountain called life, with a lot of useful tools and resources to help your journey along the way. I u...