Chakras: A Journey to the Center
Blog post by Kathi Aguiar
Does your yoga teacher ever talk about chakras in class and you wonder what the heck they are talking about?
I can remember the first time I heard the word, and I remember thinking it must be a very woo woo thing. Turns out they’re really not very woo woo at all.
Everything in life is energy, and our chakras are energy centers in our bodies. We all have them.
There are seven main chakras and these centers relate to different aspects of our life: our groundedness, our ability to go with the flow, our strength, our compassion, our voice, our intuition and our spirituality.
I’ve been studying chakras for years and I’m so excited to be offering a new workshop and training series for Purple Yoga’s 300 hour course called Chakras: A Journey to the Center.
What is really exciting about this training is this course is open to every student (click here for workshop series), not just those on the teacher training track. The first two hours of practice will be open for any student to join.
That means even if you’re not a teacher you can join in and experience the practice along those that are learning to teach. These classes will be very experiential and different from one another.
Every class will include discussion, meditation, breathwork and movement. Some classes will be mellow and meditative while some of these classes will be very strong and bring out your inner fire.
One of these classes, you’ll be blindfolded and invited to rely on other senses and in another you’ll wear earplugs and experience a whole new sensation of your practice. There are so many ways to tap into these different energy systems and I’d love to teach you some of them.
This workshop series will be an eight week journey diving into our energy centers, the subtle body and the chakra system. We will explore our way through each chakra and uncover ways to tap into our subtle body energy system using meditation, pranayama/breathwork and asana/posture.
Starting at our base, each week we will work our way up and learn about each of the 7 main chakras culminating with the final class where we will link them all together. This class is offered to any student looking to learn more about the subtle body and ways to explore it with your yoga practice.
Students interested in earning CE (continuing education) credit will have an additional hour of coursework that will include lecture/discussion and a short restorative practice based on the chakra of the week. You will learn how to incorporate this work into your personal practice and also into the classes you teach.
Come join me and experience your chakras on a very deep and personal level.
Schedule:
Meeting on Sacred Sundays in February and March 2024 only at Purple Yoga Fullerton.
Feb 4 - March 24
Workshop 1-3pm
Break 3-3:30pm
CE Credit 3:30 - 4:30pm
$540 300 hour students (24 hours)