Chakra Healing: Introduction

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION
Carol: Thank you. Tonights series is starting a whole year program

that I felt inspired to begin, to do something new. When I
met Syl, my guest facilitator, about five months ago she
introduced me to Thai yoga Therapy; that is what she is
trained in, what she has a gift and she is an artist in, and
Thai yoga therapy is all about the chakras. As I put out there
this intent, bringing a new idea for the 2004 seminar series, it
came to me; do a seminar series on the chakras, have Syl
be a guest facilitator because she has a wealth of
knowledge.
Just a vast amount of knowledge about the energy system,
very gifted as an energy worker. She actually does have a
private practice as a Thai yoga therapist. She comes to our
home, on average about once a month, where we receive
Thai yoga massages from her, and she will tell you a little bit
more about that.

My experience with it is youre going through a massage
process, being put in Thai yoga positions, and this really
works and opens and nurtures and personifies your energy.
Its very powerful and its very unique.
Its not something you can find in a lot of places, especially
not in the area of the country that we live in, but to have
someone who is as well trained as she is, and she comes to
us very well trained, having worked with the very top people
in this type of energy work.
I feel very privileged to have her with me tonight, so I want
you just to stand where you are right now, but just so
everybody knows who Im talking about, this is Syl Carson,
and really enjoy having her with us.
The blend we see in this, Im a very practical person when it
comes to teaching what I teach. I work in the field of energy
therapy, so everything is about energy, meaning that if you
change the energy, you change the physical world, in any
aspect. If you change the energy of your belief, you change
the experience that you now manifest. When you change
your energy system, you change the way that things are
playing and forming and manifesting in your life. So to
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understand the value of working with the chakras is very,
very powerful; probably one of our most dominant, present,
powerful systems of energy. Those of you who are familiar
with Donna Edens work in energy medicine; she has a real
succinct chapter thats very practical, that hits it right on.
CHAKRAS AS AN ENERGY SYSTEM
She teaches that the chakras are vortexes of energy, theyre
actually energy stations. They run from Ill just go ahead
and jump right into this, to give you that visual that will help
you see what were talking about here. This is not from
Donnas book, this is from Barbara Brennans book, she had
two books, The Hands of Light and Light Emerging; these
books here. These show the chakras in an adult, when
theyre functional. When theyre open and theyre operating
in the way theyre meant to. Its interesting, if youll look at
an infant, the nature of these chakras, theyre not developed.
Theyre little buds, wanting to be opened, and its not
unusual that because of improper development, spiritual,
mental, emotional development at those energy levels that
those buds do not open appropriately, so youve got adults in
this state. Maybe one chakra is over developed, and
compensating for one thats not open and functioning; so the
benefit of this class is really to get your whole system of
chakras working in balance.
To give you the tools and the information, and then to take
that and say gee, I have this powerful energy center that
designed to be functioning on this behalf, this theme, this
mission in my life how can you then use that energy center
to be practical in your life? To say I want to use it in this
application, to have this dynamic in my life different. I want
to manifest this. Were going to learn then, through this
series what each chakra is meant to help you with, and
serve you as. As you become a conscious communicator to
your energies, willing them to work for you, its a very
powerful position to be in.
You can actually work with other peoples chakras, as you
know about them and their function, and change and affect
the life of someone else just because of that knowledge,
without ever speaking a word. Thats powerful, you can be
used in many useful ways, and the spirit can lead and direct
you to be helpful to a lot of people just by having this
information.
We picked the chakras mainly because they really are
dominant in their play. If those are functioning, all the other
systems seem to fall into order. So if you get this system up
and running properly, everything else is going to kick in more
potently, with more capacity to do its job, because this one is
so dominant in our day to day experience, its so important.
This is another diagram, actually from Donna Edens book,
the seven chakras the major youll hear different schools
of thought and teaching; theres 12, theres seven main ones
that are really primary for our information that are useful to
us.
Sure theres a lot of mini chakras, theres energy vortexes all
over, but these are the seven most dominant if you can get
these working on your behalf with a high degree of function,
all the others are going to kick in and follow suit. So these
are the most important in that right. So that gives you an
idea of where were going with this; thats just a really brief
review.
POLARITY REVERSAL
I wanted to take you through a process before we got into
tonights program, Id like to teach you more energy tools.
So Im going to teach you about polarity reversal and
neurological disorganization. If you have a polarity reversal
going on, or youre neurologically disorganized, were going
to have a hard time bringing this in and allowing it to find a
place in you. So I want to teach you this intervention that you
can actually help each other with tonight, with some energy
checks to see if you are properly polarized; meaning your
north and south poles are functioning right, that theyre
running properly. If theyre reversed, that throws you into
more of a chaotic state, and you just set yourself up for
trouble and manifest problems in a lot of different ways. We
cant say theres one set way that its disturbing you, theres
a variety of ways you might be disturbed if your polarities are
reversed. Im going to invite someone up here, I guess youll
just have to tell me if you dont want to come, but I feel like
youre meant to come up.
Now, most the people here feel privileged to come up here, I
dont know if you feel that way. Kind of like a free session,
you get to get things straightened out, now I want you to get
a partner with this, okay? Choose your partner, and you can
actually work in threes if you need to. Theres a real simple
check for this.
You want to use the palm of your hand, its the crown chakra,
first you place it over her head. Now when the palm is down,
she wants to test strong when I do an energy check. And
when the palms up, she wants to go weak, and we going to
see if she tests that way.
So go ahead, just do that little test for an energy check, now
the way I do this is just real simple, were just checking your
energy. Put your arm out like its a limb on a tree, just nice
and firm, strong. If youve never done this before, a good
way to get a feel for it is to have them say their name, just
say My name is . Just turn this way, so the camera can
see what were doing here.
Whats your name? Im sorry.
Diane: Diane Pratt.
Carol: Hi Diane. Say My name is Diane.
Diane: My name is Diane.
Carol: Im going to just press on her arm and thats real strong.
Thats very strong, like a limb on a tree. I could push it
down, if I really cranked down on it, but I can feel it bounces
back up. Say My name is Sue.
Diane: My name is Sue.
Carol: I can push right through her arm. She just weakened,
because she is speaking something that is out of alignment
with her core truth, the energy goes weak and flat, and there
it goes. So thats a simple way of checking an energy state,
and that gives you a sense of what it feels like if someone is
strong and things are correct and the energys strong, versus
it going weak. So in your case, Im going to put my hand
over your head, just like this, then check you. Now, put your
arm back up, and Im going to place my hand this way.
See how strong she is? Her polarity is reversed. Now, I
dont know, but when I pick someone, I just am told who to
pick, so for some reason I already knew you were, but
were going to correct that in a moment, okay? Because you
dont want your polarity reversed. It causes chaos in many
ways, and you feel frustrated about why arent things running
smoothly in my life. Do you feel that way? Why arent things
running more smoothly?
Diane: Sure.
Carol: Okay. Lets go that far, choose your partner, and go ahead
and check you need to do a name thing to get a feel for it,
so do that first. So everyone is going to do this, regardless of
how your results were, but especially if your poles are
reversed, this is going to help.
So what youre going to do is just the crown pull, which those
of you that know that, youre going to put your thumbs on
your temples, put the tips of your fingers in the middle of
your forehead, and youre going to pull as through youre
pulling open the forehead, and then youre going to move to
the next position with your fingers, and again pull, pretending
youre opening up the crown.
You actually are opening up the energy center. Youre just
going to keep pulling that all the way towards the back, just
follow the next place up, the next place up, the next place
up, to get to the very back, and then youre going to grab
your neck and hang your elbows down, pulling the neck
open. Take a deep breath, and let it go. Ill have you do that
two more times. And let it go. Another time, good job.
The next step is called a hook up. Were going to hook up
the energies from the lower half of the body with the top half
of the body. You take your middle finger and put one on the
navel, and the other just above the bridge of your nose,
almost in the third eye point. Youre going to pretend these
middle fingers are a hook, and pull them up, like youre
hooking up your skin. Now breathe. Go ahead and take two
more. These techniques are very, very valuable to be doing
with children. Their energies are running amok in a lot of
their lives, and youre trying to be rational and reason with
them with the need is at an energy level, not a cognitive
level.
Take your top finger, without removing the navel one; put this
here and then switch. Just breathe in again, just hooking up
those points. Energy has a tendency to form habits, so if you
have something thats off, youre going to want to work with it
on a daily basis, maybe a couple or three times a day to
form a new habit so it really sticks and flows properly.
So were going to recheck Diane here, go ahead and turn
this way for me. Ill put my hand over the top of her head,
see how strong she is? Now Im going to switch it, see? We
got you fixed. Now youll be rich and happy and skinny,
thats all it needed, that little thing. It takes care of
everything, I promise. (laughter) why not? Just believe it
can. Thank you.
Most of these techniques do come from Donna Edens work;
little techniques like this are all through her book and her
work. I want to reference something here real quick.
NEUROLOGICAL DISORGANIZATION
I want to just teach you the steps of correcting that, so
theres not that disorganization going on at the neural level.
It starts with the crown pull, and so youve done that. Weve
done that piece.
Were going to take this last technique and roll it over into
this one, but to correct neurological disorganization you want
to start with a crown pull. We wont repeat that right now, but
for your own step by step process, make a note.
You start with the crown pull. The second step is a process
called separating heaven from earth. You need to stand up
on that, so everyone go ahead and stand up. Take a deep
breath, then just spread your feet about six inches apart, so
theyre aligned with your hips, spreading your fingers apart,
place them on your thighs. Its going to ground you and get
energy running up and down your legs.
That itself will help a lot of people, just doing that. The next
step is to take you hands and just put them in a prayer
position. This is a common yoga position; put your elbows a
little bit up there. Now, youre going to actually make a
connection with heaven and earth with your palms.
The way youre going to do that I like to bend my knees,
and then reach up, stretch my one palm up to heaven, and
the other one is pointing down to earth. And then stretch
through your body, so your knees are locked, take a deep
breath.

Come back together on the exhale, and then you go right to
the other one. Do that two or three more times; make that
connection with heaven and earth. One more. Just do each
side one more time.
Okay, good. Now, thats the second step, thats called
separating heaven from earth. Its just stand up, put your
hands on the thighs, get grounded, get that energy running
up and down the legs, bring your hands up into prayer
position, then you start to do the separating, and just
holding.
Then you come actually, the last part of the process, drop
yourself forward, just like youre hanging down, and then
twirling your hands, just bring the energy up, like that. Okay,
can anyone feel the difference that makes, to do that? You
know how you get present with yourself, and your energy
starts to get cleaned up.
You should be able to notice that. Start to tune in to the
energies of you. Start being sensitive to those shifts of
energy, so you can start to read your energy with more
sensitivity, and make these adjustments throughout your day.
You can go ahead and sit down.
The world in which we live, your energies are being basically
messed with all the time. Theres many things going on;
children and school especially, because they tend to be very,
very sensitive at a spirit level. We really have one of the
most distractive environments to place children in rooms with
that many children, with that much energy going on, without
any coaching with the energy to help them get focused,
centered, grounded, connected with their energy. Theyre
being pulled, constantly, by the energy of all these other little
people in the room; even in high school, thats just one big
energy mess in my opinion.
Very few teenagers are walking around their high school
grounded and connected to their core. My two may be the
only two at their high school that are doing this, and they
know were doing weird stuff, you know? But they feel better
and theyre grateful for it.
The last one is called the Wayne Cook Posture. This is the
third step in correcting a neurological integration; crown pull,
separating heaven and earth, and the Wayne Cook posture.
Now, if I could, I need a chair. I didnt prepare for this.
Could I pull your chair up here, would that be alright? Well
give you back your chair when were done.
Oh, Johns going to bring you a replacement, thank you. If
you cant see me, go ahead and stand up. This is a sitting
position, and Wayne Cook developed this. Hes a gentleman
who has since passed on. This helps unscramble energy; it
helps people who cant think through things, to bring their
thought into language and have things expressed clearly,
that flow that were looking for. This will help straighten all
that out.
You can start on either side. Im actually going to start with
my left leg, putting my ankle on my right knee. Were going
to do both sides, so it doesnt matter which one you start
with. Youre going to take your right hand, and grab your left
ankle. Youre going to take your left hand, reaching up and
over, grabbing the ball of your foot. You want to grab over
the top of the foot.
Just breathe in, lifting the leg up to the chest. One more
time. I usually do that about three times. Now switch sides.
Youll remember this set up by always remembering that the
leg thats straight and folded to the ground is the arm that
stays straight with that leg. They should match up. The leg
thats crossing matches that side of the arm that actually now
reaches over and crosses. Thats how I remember the set
up, because otherwise youll tend to go like this, and thats
not going to give you the position you need to be in for the
energy to have a benefit from it. So grabbing the ball of my
foot, Im going to breathe in, and do that three times. Alright.
So those are the three steps to that correction. Any
questions about those two energy interventions?
It seems a little premature for a five minute break, but Im
going to introduce Syl, were going to take a brief little break,
because we need to change microphones. Just take like a
water break. You need to be drinking a lot of water when
youre doing anything with energy, because youre really
processing at a deep level.
Letting a lot of really old energies go, a lot of old baggage
go, and your physical system will be stressed by that, so you
need to keep cleansing it and keep the fluids moving. The
water is what keeps the body in motion, and which supports
it then not being overwhelmed by the work that you might be
doing at an energy level.
Syls going to take some time and teach her portion of the
workshop tonight, regarding what she can bring to us from
the school of Thai yoga which is a very ancient practice and
that we can all benefit from, and we hope to have you take
these tools and actually practice them at home, between
courses.
We have on the website, just so you know some guidelines
of what each month will be reviewing and some suggestions
that will benefit you as far as preparation. Well take about
colors, things you can do to benefit the most from this. You
may meet other people who would like to come.
Its not necessary to be a part of the whole sequence to be a
benefactor. In fact, some people arent meant to be a part of
the whole series, just depending on wherever theyre at.
Weve found that youll be at whatever youll be benefitted
the most from, so if theres a month that theres a conflict,
just trust that and dont be in any distress about it.
Everything works out to your highest good. Your energy is
really working for you at all times to assist you, and if youre
overworking it or pushing too fast and hard, it will resist your
effort to think that is in your best and your highest good,
because its not.
You have a very intelligent system, your intention is to come
aboard with it, to become a conscious participant, to engage
it in what its already designed to do, from a really high level
that Gods created. I trust that very strongly in my work with
other people, that Im not that powerful to be disruptive to
what God put in place to benefit us.
My intention is to work alongside of it to actually be
employed by it to do the best I can to give it the greatest
outcome. So hold that intention with yourself tonight that
youll only do as much is beneficial to you.
When we do overs, we get ourselves into a stress mode,
and then were frustrated, and then youre just working too
hard and too fast in an effort to be well or get whatever result
youre looking for. But really embrace the concept of grace
and needs. Theres really no hurry, youre an eternal being.
Youll have plenty of time to continue to expand your level of
intelligence and improve the quality of who you are. So really
have that intention tonight.
In fact, lets have everyone repeat this; I have to think of it,
form the correct wording in my mind. Okay, repeat after me.
Im grateful that I am making the changes that are valuable
to me in the energy of grace and ease. I accept grace. I
change with ease. Because so many times peoples
measurement of if things are working is that its a level of
distress, and thats just not the way its meant to be with
energy healing or energy work.
Energy is a very simple dynamic of who we are. Its a very
its ease; its wanting to be at ease. So if your measurement
of thinking youre doing good work is that youre pushed,
youre processing a lot, that to me is just your belief system
that is actually causing things to be a lot more uncomfortable
than they need to be.
Use the measurement of I feel better and better all the time
to be your measurement. Everything is getting easier; things
are flowing better, trust that thats the indicator youre looking
for, rather than I need to be going into this overwhelm to
know Im getting results. Oh Im really processing at a deep
level, thats all drama that you just dont need to be playing
out. Really the goal that were striving for, wanting to come
into harmony with that the planets offering us is an
experience of balance.
To be in balance when so much of the world is out of
balance. To find your core and be centered in that core
moving, so you were almost in the eye of the hurricane, and
youre in this state of peace, when theres so much going on
in this world around you; you can achieve that state, and I
know very well through the work that Ive done with Syl, she
helps you align with that core energy, so you can be that
stillness amidst a world that is in a lot of chaos.
Even in your own home, you can anchor into that and
connect with the patience you need as people play out their
stuff. Thats a very, very powerful position to be in. To be
anchored to that core; to be in the eye of that hurricane.
HISTORY OF CHAKRAS
Syl: Alright, just welcome tonight, again Carol has already
welcomed everyone. I just feel so good. She started us with
just the right mix of energy to kind of get things opened up. I
just hope that everyone here knows how lucky they are,
because there is nothing like this offered throughout the
continental United States. There are some really amazing
people, who have done fabulous research and developed
some really wonderful books on the chakras, and you can
find chakra workshops, but theres nothing like this
anywhere.
So you know, if this were out there a little bit more, we would
have a room three times the size, because people just dont
realize whats available to them in this series. I would hope
that your life goes well this year and you can attend all the
classes. I teach chakra workshops once annually, because it
can get sort of intense at times, when you get to these
various energy centers, and its been my experience that
when someone hits a specific center where they may be
blocked or something, there is some resistance to attending,
and I would maybe just offer you my blessings that you will
have good, positive things happen in your life, that youll be
able to attend all the classes. If its a rough time, and its like
Carol talked about, not feasible to not go into the guilt thing.
Thats the second chakra, well go there. But to really kind of
estimate whats keeping you from the class.
Is it me? Or is it really the energetic connection to the
universe, spirituality, or whatever it is. But just really kind of
give yourself a deep thought moment where you can
determine whether you really should be here or not.
If you come to a chakra and you feel like youre feeling some
resistance, just ask yourself really what thats about. And
really sort of research that out in your mind, when you meet
resistance.
You may not; you may just shoot right to the top and start
levitating in the back of the room. Let the camera swing
back, if that happens.
One of my favorite people, someone that I spent a lot of time
with in my practice of yoga is Ganga White. Ganga and
Tracy run the White Lotus Foundation in the hills above
Santa Barbara, California, and Im amazed of the classes of
these yogis that come, and theres this question thats out
there, someone asks, what about yogis and levitation? you
know, can they really levitate? because theres been this
thing that goes on in the eastern religions about levitation,
and he says, in his most fabulous way, crossed legged at the
front of the room, you know, just leans out, raises one
eyebrow, and says:
Yes. They do it every day, hundreds of times a day. Its
called an airplane. They get on, and fly away, sitting
comfortably so well see how it works for you. But the
chakras are really a wonderful place of personal study, and
they will take your life and shift it in really magical and
beautiful ways. I think probably where well begin tonight is
just give you a little bit of the history.
Chakras came from tantric yoga, which is a Hindu, which in
turn came from Hindutheistic philosophies, and really what
happened was, however many thousands of years ago,
these seers in India perceived these energy centers in the
body, throughout their study of self. They were perceived as
petals of a flower, a lotus, in particular, and each different
chakra has a different number of lotus petals, and they are
symbolic of several different things, and well cover that
throughout the course of this year, this wonderful year.
What were going to do from here, is I am going to go ahead
and use the overhead and just give you a brief synopsis of
how these work. Youve seen a couple of pictures before.
This is a fabulous little Hindu dude, here. There are seven
energy centers within the body, that well discuss, and
theyre the main focus of this series.
The way they work, a lot of times you see chakras in a
picture like this, where you see the flowers; one at the root,
which is the base of the perineum, base of the spine, very
bottom of the body.
And then theres the creative center, which is for sexuality,
pleasure, nurturance, comforting, things like that, and then
theres the solar plexus, which is the power center.
The heart, which is obviously love and self-acceptance, as
well as love for others, theres the throat chakra and the third
eye, which you see a lot of in energy connections.
People always say this is your heart chakra, this is your
throat chakra, well, were going to go in deeper than that,
and give you a really clear understanding, so when
something happens in your life, youll really be able to
recognize it, and feel it in your body happening.
And then there is the crown of the head, which is the 1000
petal lotus, and in India, back when they were kind of
developing these philosophies, 1000 was really an acronym
for infinity, so thats why there is a 1000 petal lotus in that
shape.
So you see them as though they are flowers, here and then
here, and here, but my just from my own self study and my
belief in this system and the way it kind of intertwines into
the universe is that they actually are here, like this.
And then like this, okay? And so you have your base chakra,
your root chakra at the very bottom of the body, and that is
just the four petaled lotus right at the bottom of the body. It
has to do with survival, being grounded. And its right here.
It was said, back then, that chakras are in the shape of a
lotus, and if the chakra is open, or closed, or blocked, its a
grayish sort of a color, the petals droop, and when a chakra
begins to open, it takes on color, and the petals sort of fan
out. Now before you go looking for flowers in your body, Im
just going to explain one other thing.
SHAKTI AND SHIVA
Chakras are a seven tiered sort of philosophical idea of the
universe, internal and external. So what happens with this
idea is that in this philosophy, you cant really see a lotus
flower.
You can look, and you might find some belly lint, but youre
not going to see the flower in there. The best way I found to
equate this is do you see the wind?
No. You see the branches move, you can feel it on your
skin, you know somethings there, but you cant take it that
literally. Does that make sense?
Okay, so the chakras are a philosophical idea. So generally
this is the idea; you have your root chakra, when you kind of
get this opening that takes place here, the petals
philosophically open up, the color deepens, and it begins to
vibrate in a specific direction.
The next one up, same idea; when it opens, and pulls open,
takes on color, and begins to vibrate in the opposite
direction.
So its like the gears of a watch. On either side of the
chakras, you have energy lines that move up. Feminine
goes up the body, masculine comes down. With this
philosophy, up the center is whats called the sushumna, and
this follows the line of the spine.
Theres all sorts of fabulous stuff with this whole idea of the
chakras. These seers came up with the fact that there are 30
vertebra in the spine that correspond with the 30 days of the
moon, and rise up in ascension.
You have on the side, these energy lines are called nadis,
and the feminine is at the base of the spine and moves
upward; the masculine is at the crown and moves
downward. See if this sounds familiar to you, okay?
The feminine at the bottom is whats referred to as Shakti,
which is the feminine energy.
And Shakti is in the form of a serpent that lies coiled at the
bottom of the spine. I dont know if any of you have heard of
Kundalini yoga, and Kundalini awakenings; we can talk
about that as we move through the series throughout the
year.
So this snake coiled at the bottom, philosophically, moves
upward and its representation of the feminine. Shakti is
manifestation without consciousness, right? Were just
playing with this here.
Shiva, at the top, is the masculine, and it moves downward,
and it is basically consciousness without manifestation. Its a
really beautiful system. The Shakti moves up, and winds up
the chakras, Shiva moves down, they connect at the heart.
So it really falls over into a lot of western religion, different
ideas; youve got Adam and Eve here, just right there.
Eve actually took the apple, Adam had the consciousness
without the manifestation, so these things from the Hindu
philosophies really do transfer over into western religion and
ideas and things, theyre not that farfetched.
Now my opinion is that you have your chakras layered, here,
here, here, here, and these energy lines are here, and as
they move down they twist around each other, to form a
double helix, and thats just the spiral that you hear, spiraling
through the chakras. And from myself study and my study of
the chakras, this is just a brief sort of synopsis of how they
work.


Well go into detail about the really specific ones in the
future. What I have for everyone, if youre interested in
purchasing it, this is the workbook that well use for the
coming year.
This is our White Mountain Yoga series that I teach once a
year, and basically there are a couple of things that I want to
talk about here.
You have our little guide, and on the next page we have this
picture, its a very famous, ancient Hindu picture of the nadis,
which are the energy lines throughout the body.
There are 72,000 nadis, supposedly in the body, and it also
depicts chakras. You have secondary chakras in the palms
of your hands, on the palms of your feet, and a really great
way to think about the chakras is basically they are pretty
much at each joint. Where you have movement, you have
chakras.
In addition to this, theres another picture in here, and the is
pancha kosha, and this is another famous picture in the
Hindu philosophies, and these are basically five bodies of
man. The chakras work out throughout these bodies.

Really, you have energy bodies that go out a long time, or
long distance, but really theyre these main five bodies of
man that hold different things that are specific to the body.
The physical body, obviously, and then you have a small little
auric field around you, that really is easy to see on anybody,
whether you know anything about it or not.
A really great way, I dont if anyone can anyone see any
kind of auric surroundings on people? I dont know if youve
ever had experience with that.
But really a great way to do it, and I dont know if it will work
with the light or not, but its just to look at someone with a
blank background, I think Im pretty clear in the back, and
just kind of blink your eyes back and forth, just like that, and
if you look around the body as you blink, a lot of times you
can see a really thin line of light.
Its not necessarily colors, but it usually runs fairly close to
the body. Can you see that? When you do that? A little bit?
It usually takes some time to develop that, but interestingly
enough; the energy bodies from pancha kosha go out three
feet, which is personal space.
EAST MEETS WEST
So we really are in each others energy and space and
things are going on that you think Why am I dealing with
this? and its like, well you may not be. You may be picking
it up from somebody else. You dont have to scoot over that
fast. (laughter)
Just to compare some
of this, this is a really
wonderful article you
can find in the April
issue April 23, 2001
of Time magazine,
Christy Turlington is on
the cover, and shes in
a fabulous yoga pose,
but this is a wonderful,
wonderful description;
kind of a comparison
eastern meets western
view of the chakras.
And at the crown,
youve got the brain,
obviously; highest
neurological function
that we have, and as it
moves down, you can
just see how the two
correlate with one
another.
You also have branches in your body, your major nerve
branches from your body, you have specific clusters of
these, and obviously the brain is in laymans terms here
a pretty big cluster of nerves, right up here. You have
another little section of ganglia that come out from the
nervous system, comes from the spine that goes right here,
and another one right here, and one right here, down
through the belly, right there.
Do you see the correlation kind of happening? Right at the
back. So physiologically how they knew this 4000 years ago,
obviously they were seers, they saw it. But it really does
transfer over to our current day and time, what we do.
There are other things that really do correlate with the
chakras that were going to go into a lot of detail in this next
upcoming year, with this series, but the main idea is that you
have a manifesting current, which heads down, and a
liberating current which heads up.
And to be able to balance these two currents within your life,
practice, whatever youre doing, you really can bring a really
common sense to what you do and it adds beautiful texture
to your life.
When you open up a chakra, youre opening up every single
thing in your life, in your own DNA, sometimes in your
parents DNA or on back that has blocked you from this one
area. When I am visiting in a situation where I am in a
business situation, and Im in a discussion, a lot of us
become uncomfortable.
We begin to feel a tightness in the gut and its really sort of a
we would classify it as a negative experience, when you
open up your chakras and you become aware of your solar
plexus and your power and all of the issues connected to
that center, I just enjoy the buzz.
So something that may have affected me negatively, and Im
taking in a whole bunch of stuff and I carry that with me as
tension in my body, now I can just experience the release. I
was in a fabulous discussion with someone in a business
setting, and I just felt this most wonderful the best way to
describe it is the 4
th
of July, when you see those fireworks
that are white and then they sort of speckle down?
It was that sort of a feeling, right in my belly, and it was this
awareness Im waking up, I have support for what Im doing
and it gave me courage to continue on in that conversation.
And it felt great, instead of thinking Oh, what is this in my
stomach? it was like oooh. One of my favorite people, I did
some advanced Thai yoga training this past December, and
the gentleman who ran the training leaned over to me at one
point and said Syl, life is short, but its wide and I would
take that further, to just say enjoy the wide. While were
here, we may as well really open ourselves up.
OUT OF THE ROCKING CHAIR
How does Thai yoga Therapy fit into all this? Well, I began
teaching yoga about four years ago, I had been studying for
several years before that, about seven years ago I was
diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia; I spent
about eight hours a day in bed, and that was on a good day.
To change my sons diaper, I would sit on the back of the
couch and then get down to the arm, and then the seat, and
then scoot onto the floor, and change his diaper. I dont
know why I didnt just buy a changing table, but this is what I
would do, and then it would take me another five to ten
minutes to get back up.
I knew I was at a crucial point when I was sitting in my rocker
one day and kind of just rocking him that was about the most
I could do. He was about three years old, and he hopped off
my lap and pitter patter, pitter patter down the hall and I
could hear him playing in his room. Then he came back out
and said Mom, come into my room, I want to show you this.
And I just would say Oh honey, I cant get up right now. Ill
come see it later. And pitter patter, pitter patter down the
hall. And Id hear him play for a minute, and then hed come
back out, and say Mommy, come see this in my room. I
want you to see this. And Id say Okay, so I worked my
way out of the rocking chair, and Im following him as hes
walking down the hallway to his bedroom, and my little two
year old son, with his fabulousness of who he is, just looking
at the back of his head, I heard him say Thank you for
giving up your rocker, Mommy. And at that point, I knew I
had to make some huge changes in my life, if I wanted to
live to see my son raised.
So, I went to my rheumatologist, and said Im miserable. I
cant move Im in pain all the time; Im rolling out of bed.
Help me. And he was from India, and he said You must go
to yoga. So I had read the books and done a little bit, videos
here and there, and I sought out my first yoga instructor and
sobbed my way through my first class.
Cried and cried and cried the idea that I could have
compassion for my body was beyond anything that up to that
point, I had ever thought I would receive. So yoga and this
whole process of the chakras has saved my life, literally, and
has added so much beauty and texture that everything in
this journey has just been incredible, up to this point.
Were going to go ahead and continue on in just a second
with this, but mainly, the main idea that I would love for you
to get out of this is to be able to learn to have some
compassion for those parts of your body that youve maybe
felt disconnected from.
And to be able to enjoy the wide of this life, and to really take
some time and allow yourself some depth and texture,
because an understanding of this really will change your life.
What Im going to do is just give you a brief synopsis of Thai
yoga therapy.
THAI YOGA THERAPY
Thai yoga therapy is chakra based. The physician to the
Buddha, however many thousands of years ago, came up
with Thai yoga therapy. Again, it was an intuitive process.
Thai yoga therapy is pretty much a two hour experience, I
have a really dense little foam one inch mat, and I basically
take you body, and you just lay there instead of going to a
yoga class where youve got to learn the down dog and the
up dog and the uttanasana and none of it makes any sense,
youre just going to lay there and I move your body into
various yoga poses. When I got to a full extension, I work
the muscle and the fascia and this opens up these energy
lines in the body, so youll feel a balancing in your chakras,
both initial seven chakras that we talk about, but it fans out
to really every section of your body.
In December, I went to my advance training, Id been doing
this work for just a couple of years, Im one of maybe two or
three in Utah. I havent met any others that are practicing
Thai yoga Therapists, but I went to this training to learn
some techniques to adjust people in their yoga postures, in
my yoga classes, and I felt like it would give me a better idea
of kinesiology and that sort of thing.
When I went there and I found out what it was, I had no
concept of it. Its like youre reading off a menu; Thai yoga
Therapy, that looks good. Little did I know, nine days later,
major major body releases.
All of us sobbed or cried at one point or another, because we
were getting our blocks released, but its this most wonderful,
sort of rhythmic if you were to see it happening, it looks like
a cross between physical therapy, dancing, wrestling,
whatever you would like to say. There are a couple here
who have had them.
Just further description of Thai yoga Therapy, there are the
energy lines in the body that I showed you out of the booklet,
and basically what Thai yoga Therapy does, is its a system
of palming and thumbing and opening up these energy lines.
This physician to the Buddha was from India, so thats where
you have a crossover from yoga into sort of a Buddhist
philosophy. Thai yoga therapy is about a two hour process,
you start with the feet and you go to the head, and
systematically open up each chakra, starting from the feet.
So we go, and Ill begin at the feet, move up the legs,
basically work through some palming of the legs, and
thumbing along these energy lines. So its a full shiatsu as
well, which is toe to head acupressure points on your body.
Ill teach some really great acupressure points for each
chakra as we go through this.
Some of the benefits of Thai yoga Therapy are that it opens
up all the systems of the body. I coach you through your
breathing, so you can really get a full amount of lung
capacity. Its amazing, I know its going to be a long two
hours when I start to work on somebody, and I say take a
deep breath, and they go (sound of very short breath). I
never had a chance to push. So anyway, this is the general
idea of the Thai yoga Therapy.
So Im talking you through your breath, pressing on the
musculature; interestingly enough, these energy lines that
run through the body run along the lymphatic system, they
run along the fascia of the muscles, and obviously the
chakras of the joints.
Were just basically rotating the joints, opening up the
shoulders, the heart, the back, the back is fabulous. You
know, you hear about people getting a massage where
someone walks on their back, thats me.
So the idea of this is to balance the lymphatic system, to get
your lymph system moving, to lower your blood pressure,
which it will do. If you already have low blood pressure I can
bump it up there so you can have a little bit more energy.
And then circulatory lines, musculature, all those things.
The idea of Thai yoga Therapy is that its a meditation. This
is why its unique for most body work. This physician that
developed it was really an enlightened being, if he was a
contemporary of the Buddha. Im sure Buddha didnt hang
around with too many deadbeats, but basically what he
developed was a meditation.
Its a meditation for the giver and for the receiver. Thats why
I talk about it being a little bit like a dance, if you were to kind
of see it happening. Its sort of like wrestling or dancing
around, and its a meditation of whats called metta, which is
one of the four divine states of Buddhism, loving kindness.
It really just opens up your body to experience the loving
kindness of the universe, God, Heavenly Father, whatever.
Whatever term you want to put that in, but I know it is very
powerful work to do. When I am working on someone, a lot
of times I can get a sense of what is going on with them
energetically as well as physically. It really is just a wonderful
channel of spirituality, and connecting your body with the
spiritual side of you.
THE BREATH OF YOGA
Just take a second if you would, and Im going to teach you
just a really quick breath. This is the ujia breathing; its the
really basic yoga breath. Ujia breathing is the throat youre
breathing with your throat, but the air is passing through your
nose. The mouth is really for eating food, in case thats
news to anybody, and the nose is for the air to go through.
So just starting with sitting up, the breath is one of the few
autonomic responses of the body that can also be controlled.
You cant mention the breath without affecting it. All I did
was say Im going to teach you something about the breath
and everybody moved. Youre all sitting up straight, and
everyone took a deep breath, just by me saying the word.
So thats really amazing.
So what well do is, ujia breathing is just to touch the tip of
the tongue on the top palette, just behind the eye teeth, and
then take your hand to your mouth and just make the sound
like youre fogging up glasses. Same thing, going in, again.
What are you feeling on the palm of your hand? Heat?
Moisture? All right.
So for ujia breathing, you basically do that, except the lips
are closed. So just not really forcing the tongue up there and
clinching the jaw, but leaving the jaw relaxed, the tip of the
tongue right behind the eye teeth, lips are closed.
Great, same thing on the inhale. I did this in the Board room
of a bank once, and they thought a faucet was running.
(laughter) but it makes that sort of a sound, okay? I like to
think of it more than the faucet as the sounds of the waves of
the ocean. The other thing that Id love for you to do,
because theres no pride in yoga, is to let your belly hang
out.
So lets go to the Dr. Seuss kind of imagery, the belly, so just
take a nice deep breath with the belly hanging out, and then
exhale and press in. Relax the belly out sometimes its
hard just to do that, but well get you there by October. Well
all be breathing good. Exhaling, inhaling, letting the belly out.
You can balance your chakras by breathing right. If you
want to, you can breathe with your sacrum. You can breathe
all the way down here. Take a nice deep breath, and try and
draw it all the way down, through the lower back, so youre
taking a breath all the way down to here, so as you breathe,
youll actually feel your sacrum move out. Just give that a try.
Pressing in with the belly, thats activating your root chakra,
which is for next time. When you take your breath, and take
it all the way out, youre relaxing these muscles down here,
which relaxes the diaphragm. Your lungs are basically a
vacuum, this breath will relax you. Ive seen six people yawn
in the last two seconds.
This breath will really relax you, so your lungs are a vacuum.
If your diaphragm moves down, it opens up the lungs and
the air just has no choice but to flow in, okay? But a lot of
times, we dont even allow that to even take place.
Initially what we do, as we get older, specifically once we
discover boys and girls, we do this. We pull in here, we go
way out here did it really improve my posture that much?
So this is the way most of us walk around. And you tell
someone to stand up straight, and this is what they do. Dont
do that.
So from here, just take your take the palm of your hand,
and place it where your hairline would be. I say that with the
utmost respect. And then all the way, just taking your index
finger, let it rest down toward the center of your head. Youre
going to connect with a little acupressure point. Little bit of a
dip, just a suture right there.
So from there, youre basically going to open up, leave the
finger there, and its as though someone had a string and
they were lifting you up. So the sacrum tucks, the head lifts,
the heart lifts, and the head comes back. So thats mainly the
point; this is the plumb line where you want to lift from.
Right here, you can hang out here, or you can just really
straighten up. A lot of peoples low back problems come from
here. Standing back, behind you, right?
So while youre standing here, were all breathing for just a
second; really easy way, without taking up room for the
whole class, is just lace your hands behind you, roll the
shoulders open, clasp the hands if you can, and pull the
shoulders back. And then a lot of times were like ah, well
get rid of that by October, I promise.
Clasping the hands together, youre going to take this, right
here, can you all see me? Youre going to take it down and
pull it back and away and really open up the shoulders. If
you want to, depending on whos behind you; move up,
thats where you really move into some opening up of the
shoulders and the heart, trying to keep the hands clasped as
tight as you can. You can do this also folding over, too. Its
wonderful.
Theres not a lot of room to do it here, so I wont, but this is
just opening up the shoulders. Now let the hands rest at your
sides. Youre going to feel totally different if all these little
chakras are aligned. Sanskrit word meaning disk or wheel,
chakra, from the Latin root, car, to move. Isnt that
interesting?
Car, to move? So, if your shoulders are properly aligned,
your thumbs face forward. This is 10,000 years ago. Have
we come that far? Just try the thumbs facing forward. If
youre properly aligned and your shoulders are in place; its
also harder to go like this. Its easier to go like this if your
palms are this way. Its harder if youre properly aligned to
really flex your sacrum back.
You can loosen up your back, you dont have to have
anymore back pain; no more, no more. So this way, just like
this. So really just some simple ideas. Does anyone feel any
movement in the palms of their hands? Those are chakras,
you just opened it. Youre welcome.
IMBALANCE AND BELIEF SYSTEMS
Carol: It gives you the breakdown of each of the chakras, what the
energy is designed to assist us in, organs that are related to
it, the mental, emotional issues that are common for those
chakras and the physical dysfunctions that manifest as a
result of the imbalances that those energy stations. When
you have an energy imbalance, or stuck energy, or an
energy system that is running amok, the body will finally
follow the same design and it will go into imbalance.
So as you know, as youre looking to this chart, we in our
western culture of medicine, we look here first, and we
examine the physical disorder and then try and correct it, just
through a physical application or a physical intervention of
some kind, whether its medication, surgery, physical
therapy, but were only looking at the physical imbalance,
trying to affect change through physical change.

As you look back on this chart, youre going to see that every
physical disorder is related to an emotional mental
imbalance that you never corrected. Its a belief system
possibly from your generations; maybe its something that
was told to you.
They come from generally three areas, the generations, your
parents, or yourself. Those are the levels. So your
generational beliefs, you might have just chosen a family;
your spirit said Im going there, Im going to take on that
belief system and hopefully release myself from it, and
hopefully come into knowing my own free self in my lifetime.
The generational beliefs tend to be just a part of your whole
fabric of self that you have grown up with being you. They
become what we, in energy work, call a core belief. But that
core belief is not accurate and authentic to the God given
truth within you.
A parental belief, or maybe familial, something you picked up
in your family group or something that comes more from
your parents, but something that you were just told a lot, that
was projected back to you throughout your childhood, its
something you decided to line up with, its what you heard in
your formative years, in your developmental years and you
figure well, my parents are the authority here.
In your childlike state, you dont have the ability and rationale
to go theyre really screwed up. Im not going to buy into
that. Although todays children are more apt to do that,
which Im really happy about. But we tend to just line up with
whatever was projected to us, and then embrace that as
truth. So if that is not truth, it will manifest as a physical
imbalance, and then theres the things that youve now taken
on and youve started to tell yourself.
That tends to happen from about eight on up, especially in
your pre-teens and adolescents; you start to run your own
tapes, your own self-assessment, and the own feedback
loop that youve got going now.
You really dont need your parents do to the job much
anymore, because youve engaged it on your own. Thats
usually in place by your teen years.
So those beliefs are, just so you know, each of these
chakras hold those dynamics. Those tapes, those events,
theyre like the mini computer hard drive systems that hold
them, very deep program that goes all the way back to your
generations. Some of your imbalances that are held in your
chakras are not even from your life experience.
This stuff gets passed on through decades, if not
generations, of it never being altered. We become the
participant to now make the change. Then if you go all the
way back to these energy stations, youre going to see them
broken down, from tribal belief; which is basically
generational, a group of people you come from, the culture
of your family.
You can say weve got my ancestors, which then tie into an
actual; we all have bloodlines back to different groups of
people who formed a certain belief system. Im heavily
stocked in German DNA. Its just lovely.
Ive had a lot of anger to deal with throughout my adult life.
Not recently, but that was one of the primary energies that
just came through me so potently, and I know that came from
a very deep root tribal energy that came from association
from having come into that group, that I was now a
participant.
As a part of the human race, that was an energy I was willing
to participate with and alter, because anger is not something
I really experience often anymore. Would you agree with
me, honey, that its pretty rare?
I can be serious, but Im not blowing up all the time like I
used to, and I used to blow up all the time. It was probably a
daily event, if not several times a day. And then the second
power of relationships, I want to introduce you to Syls
workbook, which will be a great asset to you, because youre
going to be able to read through this before you come each
month and prepare yourself.
You can also go on the internet to CarolTuttle.com and pick
up a few of the what were going to be doing, the areas
well be focusing on. But in this, it does give you a support
tool to assist you through this whole series.
The first chakra is the shade of red. Were suggesting as we
go into each month that you prepare yourself by choosing to
wear that color definitely the evening of the seminar, and
preferably at least a few days or a week prior, that you put
yourself in red.
Because that color, the color of that month will actually start
to feed and work with that energy station, and youll be more
the benefactor of that. Im not going to get into any of the
clearing mechanisms tonight, because were really just
setting the stage for the year, but it will bring stuff up and
youre going to want to know probably the most obvious
tool that I want to teach you and have you take home is EFT
Emotional Freedom Techniques, so that rather than just
being played by these energies, youll have the
consciousness to say I have to move this energy out and
release myself from it so I come into balance. So youre just
not this victim of your energy, your chakra opening, and
youre going Whoa, this is just overwhelming. You want to
move the energy into balance, clean it up, clear it out, thats
really easy to do these days.
The second chakra, the color is orange. Im just going to go
up through these. Then youve got the power of
relationships, the sexual energy; you can see the issues that
line up with those on the belief systems.
The third chakra is yellow. Another thing Im going to do each
month is introduce you to the therapeutic gemstone that
works with that chakra, which I teach a lot about therapeutic
gemstones, their value, their usage, and there is one for
each chakra. Theyre just a system of energy assistance,
that when you wear a tool that has such a high vibration it is
working with your energy system. So if you can just put on
the necklace it will work with that energy station directly, very
specifically, and youll get the benefit of that.
The fourth chakra is green, the fifth chakra is blue, thats
your throat chakra. A lot of womens throat chakras are not
functioning in authenticity, thats a real powerful one for
women to be able to speak their truth and come from its
not even necessarily to speak it verbally, but to be thinking it,
to think your truth and be willing to speak it.
It doesnt mean necessarily that youre a real verbal person,
it just means that the thoughts that you have are yours,
rather than thoughts in reference to what your world is
outside of you.
A lot of women compromise their own genuine authentic
thought process to look outside and then decide what should
I be thinking, what ought I be thinking, what do I need to
think in order to accommodate the people and the events of
my life.
CHAKRAS AND PURPOSE

That is creating a real like theres something lodged in
there, and were going to open that up. The sixth chakra,
which is your intuitive center, your third eye, is like an indigo
blue, a purplish blue. Your seventh chakra, your crown
chakra is amethyst, purple, it a royal color. And you have a
dominant chakra that you play your life by. Well do an
imagery with that, do we want to do that tonight?
Do you have a process for that? As far as the again, we
have certain energy systems that support us, they become
our vice, our strength and our weakness. So lets say if your
dominant chakra that your life operates by is your heart
chakra, you have a tendency to carry wounds of the heart,
youre very vulnerable there, its also a strength because you
have a very natural capacity to be guileless and
compassionate and to be very aware of this ability to reach
out and nurture people.
But if youre in the imbalance, if youre in the weak side of it,
youre actually having to protect yourself and not be able to
access that energy station for your strengths, because
youre now having to be guarded.
My primary chakra is my third chakra, my second which is a
support to it is my sixth. My fifth and sixth chakras are my
dominant players that help me live my mission. Well, whats
this chakra? This throat chakra? Its about communication.
This is about communicating truth, being able to see the
bigger picture, to make sense of this kind of ethereal, the
spiritual, and bring it into this realm. That is my mission that
I serve humanity to offer.
I have all this communication going out there. So my
dominant is not my heart, that supports these two primary
chakras that help me serve and fulfill my mission. If youre
not able to engage in the chakra for the energy station that is
to benefit and support you in your purpose, youre having to
be resourceful and compromising some other way to try and
find that balance, you will probably be compromising
physically for that, because your body will blow out and not
be able to carry the difference that needs to be made
somewhere else, and so disease will be created in some
fashion. Some kind of disharmony.
I have this little visual do you have a process? Id like you
to tune into that, and before we actually do the process, write
down what you think, just intuitively, what energy station,
which of these seven chakras would be your dominant
energy station to help you serve your mission. Theres
usually a dominant and a secondary that play strongly for
you.
So make a little note, we want to help you develop your
intuition, so you dont always have to go looking around for
somebody to tell you, what you already know. Because you
do already know this. I believe you chose it, because it
supports you in being successful in why youre here. Its
something I believe I chose, in my spirit, my existence in
the spirit realm, I knew I needed a strong throat chakra.
In the days of my dysfunction, where I was really seriously
dysfunctional, I was screaming and yelling and my throat
chakra was just like raging, because I wasnt quietly angry, I
was raging loud angry, so again it played in that arena for
me. Which thats not what you want in your family
experience, because your children are deeply affected by
that.
Okay, so these are for you to have for your own reference. I
encourage you to Syl has her workbooks in the back, shes
also put together this lovely kit of oils, because each month
we will be teaching you a different essential oil that will assist
you. We want you to use the tools so you dont have to work
with just your own thoughts and try that.
When you use these interventions and other resources, oils,
gemstones, yoga positions, techniques, theyre working for
you; so these are also available and she has a really shes
an amazing woman.
She said Well, just one day I started to draw. Yeah, right.
Did you do this? You did your workbook? And Im you just
sat down and you drew? all your chakras are open and
working and you can make this beautiful art, and wow.
But these are in the back, these bookmarks. Another thing
thats very important, chakras need to be communicating
with each other. They are a system of sound and light. One
of their primary means of communication is through sound,
tones, vibrational tones.
Most people, if we were to check you, your chakras are not
working as a whole team. Theyre working independent, and
at times they can be working against each other, so that
there are actually power centers that are trying to sabotage
and overrun the other one
Thats sort of when your heart chakra is not connected to
your throat chakra and these centers up here, or the lower
chakras are not connected to the upper chakras.
Youre either working with all three lower ones, and youre
stuck there and youre not getting into the higher energy
systems. Your communication between the chakras will help
your whole system resolve a lot of its own issues, without
you having to do a lot of this tedious healing work.
CENTERING WITH BREATHING
Syl: Okay, you just want to center yourselves. Lets all kind of
there we go. I didnt even have to mention the breath. You
started breathing before, just take some nice deep breaths,
and rather than really forcing the ujia breath, its really nice
just to touch the tongue on the tip of the palette and just
gently turn the corners of the mouth up and open up the
back of the palette and then just gently closing your eyes,
take your awareness to your feet, and just observe whats
going on there.
Can you feel them? How centered do you feel that within
your feet? And just gently drawing your awareness up into
your ankles, your heels, and just listening to whatever words
come to mind as you take your awareness to that part of
your body.

Taking a nice deep breath in. Just slowly turn the palms of
your hands up, and draw your awareness up your shins and
your calves, to the back of your knees, the front of your
knees, underneath your knee cap, up your thighs.
Do you feel your legs? How connected to they feel? Do you
feel the ground beneath your feet? Just whatever comes to
mind, just make a mental note of that. Taking another nice
deep breath in. Bring your awareness to the base of your
spine. Does it feel rooted to the ground, to the chair beneath
you? What images come to mind? Any colors, sounds,
imagery?
Taking it up through the lower pelvis, over the hip joints,
drawing your breath deep into the lower belly, just being
aware of the center of your body. Connectiveness, what you
feel, another deep breath in, just draw the breath up from the
lower abdomen to the navel.
Let the breath and the movement of your awareness just
wrap around to the backside of you to the kidneys, the
adrenal glands, your spine, your low back, if it could say any
one word to you, what would that word be?
Taking a nice deep breath in, just really opening up the
navel, letting the belly sink forward as you take a nice
inhalation.
As you exhale, just feel the pressure from the belly all the
way up to the base of the sternum, around your mid back
and the tightness, drawing the breath in through the sides of
your ribs, as you breath in allow the ribs to expand out to the
sides.
As you exhale, allow them to relax down in the shape of a
cone, as the muscles bring them down to a point. Inhaling,
out, go ahead and let the ribs expand again, and draw the
breath all the way up into the heart.
Without judgment or reservation, just observe what you feel
as though you were witnessing. What does the heart say to
you?
Taking a deep breath in, let it draw all the way up through the
sternum, through the breastbone, through the shoulders,
take a nice deep breath in, through the heart, and your
exhale move out through your shoulders, your elbows, the
palms of your hands, another deep breath in.
Just allow any tightness there to open and make space, then
as though you were breathing through the little soft notch in
between your clavicles, take a breath in, as though it were a
drink of cool water. Go ahead and swallow to release the
throat, and as you exhale, just allow your exhalation to move
out the back of the shoulders, the scapula draw down, taking
another nice deep breath in.
Let it carry all the way out to the tip of the nose, the soft
palette and just gently release the breath. Softening the jaw,
quieting the ears, just allowing your ears to be hollow and
open.
On your next inhalation, just gently with your lids closed,
bring the gaze of your eyes to the center of the forehead,
hold there at the top of the breath, and exhale releasing your
eyes back to center as you release.
Focusing your attention on the brow, center of the forehead,
just imagine you were in a place where you could just allow
water to wash over the forehead, down the sides of the
head, and what would that water reveal?
Taking your awareness on your next inhalation, draw your
breath all the way up to the crown of the head, feel the
wideness in your sinuses, allow your eyes to relax and
widen, through your mind, and just allow that connection, the
extension through the crown of the head, how tight does
your scalp feel?
Taking a nice deep breath in, draw the breath and the eyes
all the way up to the center of the forehead, and as you
exhale, allow them to relax down and allow the exhalation to
move down through the back of your head, as though
someone were caressing your from your forehead all the
way back, down the neck.
Taking your next inhalation all the way up the brow, allow the
breath to move all the way down through the tailbone, down
past the spine, just being there with these centers of your
body. Bring your awareness to your spirit.
Can you feel it inside of you, around you? Can you feel it
only in your head and your shoulders and your arms? How
does your spirit feel to be connected with your physical self?
If it were an element, what would it be? Sit with that for a
moment, with your breath. Namaste.
QUESTIONS AND CLOSING
Carol: Questions about anything that weve covered, shared
tonight? Anything that we have not, that you want more
feedback on? Were just going to take the last 12 minutes,
because we close our programs on time, because youve
pretty much expired yourself here and we want to respect
and honor you and yourself and your experience, because
we just need to keep that in place, so we are going to close
by 9:30, just so you know. So raise your hand if you have a
question.
Female: Could you tell me how to determine the dominant chakra?
Carol: Okay, this is a little imagery that was taught to me by a
person who does energy work years ago, and rather than
take the time tonight, Ill give you the overview of it, and you
can play with this on your own. It does take your ability to do
some guided imagery with yourself. Its very simple, its kind
of elementary.
This gentleman did this imagery with me, and he said
pretend youre a spirit in the spirit realm, and youre just
about to launch yourself into your physical experience, and
youre going to go down a slide. At the bottom of that slide it
divides into seven chutes.
Each of those chutes are represented chakras are the
same colors as the rainbow, if you didnt notice that. Its like
God has a sense of humor and hes kind of pointing these
things out to us everywhere.
Starting with the root chakra with red, and then it goes on up
the scale. So he had me imagine this slide that went down,
and these chutes that went under an arch in each of the
colors of the chakra, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
violet.
And he said, Watch, just let yourself go, and see which one
you go under, which one you go shooting under. And so I
went through this whole imagery, and I said I went through
the blue one. And he already knew, you can, as you do
energy work you can get a sense of what peoples dominant
energy stations are, so a lot of people in this work could
point that out to you, but he wanted me to get a connection
with that.
He said, Youre right. Youre dominant chakra is your throat
chakra, and its complemented by your sixth chakra, your
intuition, and its supported by your intuitive knowing and
your communicating that to others.
So well actually some people are really quick, and theyre
like oh, I already did that, just as I verbally walked you
through it. Well actually go through that with some set up
where you can close your eyes and tune it; well do that next
time. But its very elementary, some people may go oh no, I
dont know it. I couldnt decide. I felt like I had to pick and I
went down the wrong one. You know.
Syl: In the imagery that I did, there was one place that you took a
deep breath, and that was just so easy for you, and you felt
really there, and really live, and really present with that
section of your body, and it resonated. Not to mention the
throat chakra for you, that would be a dominant area for you.
Female: Carol, will you share this week the relationship to the color
red with the root chakra?
Carol: Well, all energy is sound and light. Its the vibration of
sound, and its the colors. Were not even aware of all colors.
We see a certain color spectrum in our 3D and our
dimension here. Im sure there are many, many other colors
our human eyes are not connecting with, so the red the
color of red resonates with that first chakra. Im going to let
you actually answer this questions.
Syl: Red, vibrationally, is the slowest color vibration. It is also in
relation to earth, and blood is a its not a symbol of that, but
blood is a part of physical existence and its very grounded.
Thats whats here, and it keeps us going.
Carol: Look at the color of the chairs youre sitting on. Thats really
interesting, what a phenomena, that we happened to have
red chairs to help you ground. So you can really tune it.
Syl: One more class, and then they go to orange. (laughter)
Female: Carol, Im just wondering, have you outgrown some of the
things that you began to teach?
Carol: Not at all. Have I outgrown Im still in kindergarten with
that. What I wrote in Remembering Wholeness is universal
in nature.
Its just theres such, just really living that at a masters
level is to be like God, its to be like Christ, and you can
never outgrow that in this dimension. Id have to transcend,
Id have to translate or something. Im married, theres no
way. (laughter) I have children.
I blew up at my son right before I came here tonight, and Im
like Dang, thats just not okay. You know? Its not good
energy and its not appropriate to process my emotion onto
my child. Its a daily commitment, honestly. The difference I
guess, with me, is Ive made it a daily commitment, because
it is.

Every day its a commitment to be conscious about my
thoughts, my emotions, and my creations, and Im very
conscious about it. When you teach it as frequently as I do,
and you have so many people then mirroring back to you
their gratitude, you hold yourself accountable in a big way, to
really walk your talk.
So if nothing else, I wanted to make sure I really got this. So
thanks for all of you helping me be accountable. Ill close
with that. You may want you say your gratitude statement.
Syl: Its just wonderful, grateful, its going to be a wonderful year.

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