"In a happy marriage, stand together, but not too near. For the pillars of the temple stand apart, the oak tree and the cyprus cannot grow in each other's shadow." ~ Kahlil Gibran
"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional and mental states. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather." ~ Martha Graham
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." ~ Maggie Smith
“Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” ~ Serenity Prayer
"Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost. And a lot of people do! That's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives." ~ Morris Chestnut
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
~Les Brown
It’s a squally day here today, with the last front that came off the east coast pushing huge swells, winds and rain showers our way. It’s perfect weather to talk about the 1st Chakra, or Root Chakra, symbolized by the color red. When life’s circumstances cause this chakra to come out of balance, we too, will find ourselves fearful, in stormy weather.
If you think about the American Medical Association, you might recall that the symbol for medicine is a staph with spirals running up it, sometimes symbolized with an eagle on top. This symbol actually is representative of the yoga system of kundalini energy coursing up the body, from the sacrum to the crown of the head. This symbol carries an important message to energy healing, acupuncture, chakra balancing and chiropractic. The two snakes are representations of the spinal tracts known as the ida (Yin) and the pingala (Yang). These two snakes are coiled around what is referred to as the sushumna, or main spinal tract or cord.
"You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state." ~ Sharon Gannon
"The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang." ~ Morihei Ueshiba
"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease, than to know what sort of disease a person has." ~ Hippocrates, father of modern medicine