Chakras

This Yin practice to unleash your creativity is focused on creating freedom around the Svadhistana (Sacral) Chakra to help you tap into your emotions and dreams, soften blockages, and feel open. The focus is on opening the hips with time spent in Dragon, Sleeping Swan, and more. It's short, sweet, and effective. Enjoy!

This guided meditation is called Dharana. We utilize breath along the central channel visiting each chakra and its element. This is especially soothing as we filmed on the creek in Eldorado Canyon State Park. This is powerful after a long day inside when your need to relax, unwind and feel the elements in nature inside yourself. Enjoy!

This class is designed around headstand as our connection to the entire body via the nervous system and spinal column. Considered our peak pose in this series, this class will bring your body into a systematic warm up and pose progression. In a similar way, the crown chakra is our connection with the universal whole. Working with this chakra will bring spiritual insight to the practitioner encouraging mindfulness and the ability to align with quiet self-confidence in all aspects of life.

A healthy and balanced throat chakra can positively impact your ability to communicate effectively and speak your truth. Working with this energy center, we will emphasize your ability to manifest and express your truth in the world. When the fifth chakra is open and balanced, you are able to express yourself clearly and honestly in any situation with confidence.

Love and fear reside in the heart, so which one will win? This dynamic Vinyasa flow class addresses all the ways we can create blocks in our physical, emotional, and mental bodies and prevent love flowing freely. This chakra balancing flow starts from the root and creates space through the crown. Flow through grounding, balancing, and strengthening asanas and enjoy the openness you create from the inside out.

This class is part of our new Yoga en Espanol package we created for our Spanish-speaking yogis

Exploration and meditation - Chakra Scan and Visualization: Balancing 7 Centers of Consciousness

Meditación - Exploración y Visualización de Chakras: Equilibrando los 7 Centros de Conciencia

How is it going with expressing myself clearly? Am I speaking from head or from heart?

The Vissuddha Chakra, or throat chakra, connects the head to the heart. Knowing from which place we speak impacts the language we use to describe our life, and that shapes our perception of it. When we can speak from the "eye of the heart" and the "knowing beyond intellect" then the words we use ring clear.

In this full hour practice, we explore poses that involve both compression and extension of the throat. We open the heart. And, we acknowledge that with foundation and creativity in balance, we create a stronger self, which allows for the heart, throat and head to connect.

This exploration, as yoga allows, happens on both on a conceptual or metaphysical level, and in our physical alignment.

Spotify playlist for Speaking from the Head & Heart

This feel-good meditation practice is of benefit to everyone. The magnetic field of the human heart can be measured up to 8 feet outside of the human body with modern technology. It's our radar and our place we feel whether people or situations, feel good to us, or don't, without using the logic of our mind. Meditation has been scientifically proven to benefit mental, emotional, and physical health. In this meditation practice, suitable for beginners, we'll simply rest our consciousness, breath and pay attention to the space of the heart. 15-minutes of an internal experience can lead to profound shifts in the heart, mind, and how they connect.

Your Sacral Chakra is the seat of your emotional power. Connected to the water element, this chakra allows you to flow more profoundly with the natural undulations of nature's rhythm. If your life feels a little out of tune with the sensations of pleasure, power, or you're facing uncertainty with life's circumstances, this 30 min class is for you! Connect with breath and let the flow take over.

Your heart is the center of love and affection that you hold for yourself and others. This class is designed to systematically warm your body and open your heart-center so you may shine in kindness and compassion. Use this 20 minute sequence to wake up with energy or to augment your regular routine and channel your power from your heart center.

Light up the fire in your belly with this Manipura chakra focused flow. The Manipura chakra is the third energetic pathway located at the center of your navel and your solar plexus area. It is associated with the sun's energy as it is connected to the core. Move through a challenging and upbeat flow to ignite the prana, or lifeforce, within your body!

Your root chakra is where you hold your power of being in the world. This glows fiery red and roots you to Mother Earth. This area functions to ensure all of your needs are met. In this 25 min flow we will systematically align and strengthen this area with a warm up series and sun salutations. Take root.

This peak pose oriented class will provide fantastic warm up postures with and without props to help you explore some of yoga's more invigorating backbending poses safely and comfortably. It's Anahata Chakra Vinyasa -4/4/4: The 4th Chakra - Anahata, Heart; the 4th Yama, Bramacharya, how we treat others and honoring our intimate relationships; and the 4th Niyama, Svadhyaya, self-study. This practice is all about collaboration, relationships and finding out what we can do and where we dance in the playfulness of effort and surrender. It will deepen your exploration of relationships on and off the mat and shift your priorities in a way that all of your relationships will become more meaningful.

Your core is the center of your power and presence in the world. The solar plexus is where you digest your food and your life. By systematically strengthening and toning this area we can shine a little brighter in who we are and how we show up in the world on and off the mat. Use this 20 minute sequence to wake up with energy or to augment your regular routine to channel your power from your core center.

Led by Valerie D' Ambrosio

The third chakra is our power center; our self-esteem and confidence. When we become aware of, honor, and strengthen this area of our body from a conscious place, we are able to show up in greater alignment to our core essence off of the mat.
Through twists and core strengthening, this class with invigorate, you as well as challenge you, to stay fully present and commit to yourself physically, emotionally and mentally.

This class is designed to connect you to your chakras and balance your energetic body on all 7 levels! More than just a sweaty vinyasa experience, this class is a life-transforming practice that will have you delving inward to discover your patterns of holding and withholding and how to let go of any blockages that no longer serve you. This workshop is done blindfolded so you can FEEL each chakra as we move through them with the corresponding asanas. Enjoy the feeling of bliss and surrender that comes at the end when each of the chakras is balanced and aligned!

A meditation to align and connect you with your chakras, this practice will guide you through each of the seven energy centers with breath, visualization and mantra. Use this meditation practice to go inward and establish a sense of each of the seven energetic centers of the body. This practice is great for anytime of day, and for any level of practitioner.

This chakra restorative class will take you through each of the seven energy centers with seven restorative poses that allow you to move more deeply into your energetic and emotional bodies. Perfect for relaxation, rejuvenation and reconnection, this class will leave you feeling open, balanced and completely integrated within yourself.

Have you been going through the motions of life all the while disconnected to your higher self? If so, you're not alone. So few of us are attuned to our connection to the divine. In this class we start to access the 7th chakra, the energy wheel that resides above the crown of our head. We forgo some of the more physical yoga practices for uplifting meditation, breath work, mudra and mantra. This is the final class in Elise's chakra tuning series.

**This class is part of our Yoga for the Chakras Package!