Your Chakra Coach

I'm finally answering my most asked question - how can I do chakra work with my child? As someone who is absolutely not an expert on parenting or child development, I hesitated to answer this until I realized that the parent/child relationship is just that - a relationship. And all relationships benefit from us doing our energetic work. I'll go over some broad ideas for how to introduce energy wor...

This week I'm chatting with Ananta Ripa Ajmera after reading her amazing book, The Way of the Goddess. In it, she takes us through each chakra and a goddess that represents the aspects of the energy center. She shares the mythology of various goddesses, and how the lessons apply to our modern lives, healing, and spiritual growth. Each chapter has chakra healing practices to help you connect with t...

How many of us are holding on to old stories, old thoughts, old feelings that are holding us back in the present moment? My guess is almost all of us! In the Full and Waning Moon episodes, I mentioned using rituals to let go of those things and in today's episode I elaborate on what those might be. We'll talk about how you can use elements, color, writing, nature, and a variety of other things to...

This week wraps up the Lunar Cycle and Your Chakras series with the Waning Moon. This is the time when the moon starts to grow dark in the sky and we have the opportunity to reflect on the work we've done and begin to draw inward towards rest. This autumnal season is a time of change and growth, of detail and reconnecting. The chakras associated with this phase of the moon are the Root, Solar Plex...

Today we're talking about everyone's favorite part of the lunar cycle - the Full Moon! As we touch on this magical time, you'll learn about how you can use the Sacral, Heart, and Throat chakras for relationship building, manifesting, and letting go of some pain and finding more self-compassion. We'll also talk about how the yang, or masculine, energy exists within the overall yin, or feminine, ene...

Today we’re discussing the second basic phase of the lunar cycle, the waxing moon. This process of the moon appearing to get fuller in the sky takes place on days about 4-12 of the cycle. It's seasonal association is Spring, a time of new life, growth, and creation.  The associated chakras here are the root, sacral, and solar plexus, the lower chakras responsible for drawing the upper energy...

We begin a new series this week on how to use the Lunar Cycle to benefit your chakra work. We'll go over the four basic phases of the Moon, what they represent energetically and seasonally, as well as which chakras are associated with each and why. I'll also offer some practices to help align our chakras with the natural energies of the world. We start with the New Moon, a dark, quiet, healing ene...

Today we're talking about the practice of "setting an intention" before yoga class - why we do it, what it is, and how we can use it to bridge the divide between what we do on the mat and off. We'll also discuss how and why we might set an intention in our chakra balancing and healing practices, since we know that yoga isn't just physical postures - it's a lifestyle that we live, not just somethin...

Today we're talking about Pranayama, the fourth limb of the eight-limbed Ashtanga Yoga system. Pranayama translates to breath control, and it truly is a superpower that you can carry with you everywhere to reduce stress, calm your nervous system, and clear your chakra energy system. The research showing the physical benefits of proper breathing is unquestioned and the ancient sages created a varie...

We're exploring the concept of Self-Care today and why it might not be exactly what we've been told it is. Society would like us to believe that self-care can be purchased in the form of wine, fancy candles, and chocolate, and that it should be 100% feel good all the time. The truth is, though, that if we want to truly care for our mental, emotional, physical, and yes, spiritual health, self-care...

Today we examine the final set of values in this series - the Crown Chakra values of Spirituality, Peace, and Freedom. I hope this series has helped you identify what’s important in your life and given you some ideas on how to prioritize it. When we make a list of the things that matter, and a list of how we spend our time each day, values help us ensure that the majority of our time is spent supp...

It's the second to last episode in our Chakra Values series and we're taking a look at the principles that live in the third eye chakra - intuition, wisdom, and growth. I'll also take a moment to discuss why I choose to associate personal values with each chakra. They can certainly be used apart from the chakra system but since we're using it as a framework to determine where we feel good and wher...

Personal values are guideposts for us. They help us discover more about who we want to be and how we want to get there. When we know what is important to us, we can build that life by focus on specific chakra work because we know what decisions we want to make, the choices that lead us closer to our highest self. The other thing this work does is let us know where we’re struggling. If we have a va...

Our lives are a reflection of what we value, whether we like it or not, each moment is a culmination of the choices we’ve made. But sometimes our personal values that get subverted by other people’s expectations of what we should value, or society’s demands, or we even do it to ourselves. But we have the opportunity here to really define what matters to us and then, holding that knowledge, activel...

Welcome to the fourth in the series on Chakra Values! These are like filters for our lives, helping us know when we're moving closer to our highest self, and when we're not - and if that's the case, being consciously aware of our choices. Knowing this helps us live in alignment with ourselves, which is where peace, happiness, and contentment come from.  Finding just three values that live in...

After a break for the US holiday, we're back with the third in our Chakra Values series. We’re trying to identify what is the most important to us and then spend most of our energy there, finding what gets us closer to what we value, gets us closer to our truest nature. And even though we’re going through three or four values or ideals for each chakra, leaving us with well over 20 things to consid...

What is a value and why is it so important that we talk about them right now? They’re a lens, a filter to use when you’re making choices. Does this choice contribute to my values, or does it not? When you look at what is in your life right now, you can see what you value. The good news is we can select our values, we can explore our values and then make a choice to live into them. A good way to st...

When we’re setting goals or trying to figure out what we want to be when we grow up, one of the first things I’ve always been asked to do is define my personal values, but I never really understood how to limit what I value, or clarify what I value. But recently I’ve been thinking about values as they relate to our chakras and when we understand what the chakras contain, and where we are in our li...

It's a classic meditation to help you balance your seven main chakras and feel better right away. The meditation is about 10 minutes long - consider spending a few minutes on your self-care today. Balance your energy, get some clarity about where you may have imbalances, and create some calm in your life! Each week, we'll continue to learn tools and ideas that we can use to move closer to our high...

Today is the final episode about planetary connections to the chakras – the third eye and crown chakras, the two uppermost chakras in our common 7 chakra chain. The upper chakras tend to have more than one planet that’s associated with them, and that holds true for these last two as well. The Third Eye Chakra is closely associated with Jupiter, a planet of luck, good fortune, and possibilities. It...

We’re back this week with the second in the series of Planetary connections to the chakras. Last week I told you a little about my reasoning for looking into this and today I wanted to expand a little on using the information. We'll talk about how to learn what the planets are doing on any given day, connect them to your chakras, and develop energy work that takes advantage of the natural patterns...

Today we’re going to talk about the planet associated with each of the lower chakras - the Root, Sacral, and Solar Plexus. While many people are aware of several chakra aspects (color/element/etc.), the planetary connection is a little lesser known. It can be very useful to clarify situations when usual methods aren't providing answers! The three pairs we'll discuss today are the Root Chakra and M...

Every week in the intro I say that we’re going to explore how the chakra system can "lead you closer to your highest self." I’m often purposefully vague about what that is because I think that it’s important that we each make that determination for ourselves. However, I was working with a client last week who wanted a more detailed explanation of exactly WHAT the highest self is. If we don’t defin...

The third and final pairing in the Celtic Chakra system - the Crown and Root Chakras - is the subject of today's episode! Representing your connection to both the earth and universe, the past and future, the physical and spiritual, we'll explore what this ancient system calls the Path of Life. This is the pair responsible for health and vitality, not just physical health, but emotional, mental, an...

Today we talk about the second of the chakra pairings in the Celtic tradition: the Throat and Sacral Chakras. Together, they are considered the Path of Wisdom, so we'll talk about what exactly wisdom is and how it differs from knowledge. Imbalances in these chakras are really common and today you'll learn what some of those imbalances are and what healthy, balanced chakras look and feel like in yo...