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The Energy Body and Chakra System for Beginners

03/05/2017 Filed in Spirituality written by Lubaina Choudhury

Chakras are energy centers located within or around the body; each with its own qualities and attributes. The interesting thing about this energetic anatomy, is that each ancient tradition has some version or system referring to it. I like to say that 90% of a human being is in the unseen world. I mean the only thing we can see is the physical body, and that makes up a mere fraction, and a deceiving one at that, of how we present ourselves to the world.

Chasm: Through the Abyss into the Light and Why I do Yoga

04/25/2019 Filed in Healing written by Lubaina Choudhury

Sometimes you go into something expecting to learn how to do something and in the process you learn more about yourself than you thought was possible.I am currently enrolled in a Yoga Teacher Training that is changing my life on many levels. This training at Laughing Lotus NYC is exactly what I could have ever asked for in a yoga school — it is spiritually based, yet grounded and challenging. I am learning more about myself than I ever thought I would. Recently we were given an assignment with the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Each of us got a sutra which we were supposed to research and prepare as a presentation for the whole group by personalizing it and finding out how it comes alive in our own lives. It seemed like a creative way to learn these ancient teachings.

The sutra that I picked (randomly with my eyes closed from an envelope) was ‘tamas’ which is one of the ‘gunas’ or qualities of Prana or universal life force. The concept of tamas can be interpreted as heaviness, inertia, dullness or darkness. The other two gunas are ‘rajas’ - action, activity, a dynamic force of movement and ‘sattva’ - tranquility, purity, light and perception. The play of all three gunas gives rise to and maintains all of Creation. Without any one of them, life as we know it would not exist.

Movement as Medicine

02/28/2017 Filed in Healing written by Lubaina Choudhury

Movement helps move energy, meditation helps build energy. Mindful movement is meditation in motion. We can use movement to release emotions, destress and achieve a sense of balance and harmony. Without movement energy stagnates in our body and we feel fatigued and uneasy. This is why mindful practices such as Yoga, Tai Chi and Han Su Do have such beneficial effects on our being.

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The Energy Body and Chakra System for Beginners

Chasm: Through the Abyss into the Light and Why I do Yoga

Movement as Medicine