How do yoga positions open up the chakras?

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#1

I am new into this.Just want to know more:
How do yoga positions open up the chakras?

#2

Hi,

try going to about.com & u can locate a article called “chakras & yoga postures” and it will take u to the beginning of researching this subject.

I am a certified massage therapist & i can tell u that there are many different ways to stimulate or help balance out the chakras, and i also practice yoga; in my opinion since the yoga postures are stimulating the spine-hence the opening of your chakras & w/regular practice, this helps maintain or promote the balance in the chakras that we all need, but not necessarily in all of them at the same time…if that makes any sense?

I can only urge u to do some of your own research about the chakras, & i can guarantee u it will be a journey worth travelling, if u r at all interested in helping yourself find the balance that is undeniably involved w/the chakras and yoga!

#3

Well, it’s believed that we have Energy Points in our body and Yoga postures help keep these Energy in the right balance. The yoga positions help the chakras to flow in the right direction giving the right energy balance to entire body. There are 7 chakras and the points are near our spinal cord. When you are in the right yoga position, the energy flow become smooth.

I hope this helps :slight_smile:

Jay Franco

#4

There is a false impression about chakras as being energetic nodes what act similarly to the the physical organs of our body. This is understandable given our today’s consciousenss, what is blind to anything suprasensorial.

From this flows the false idea that a certain position of the physical body will result enhanced chakra activity. This is simply, untrue. Chakras are spiritual organs, they are suprasensorial, they are mind related. What you think, what you act, is all based on them, and viceversa. Yama and niyama has much greater effect on chakras than performing postures. The posture itself is totally useless if it is not “lived in”, InnerAthlete calls this heart centeredness.

Hence, personal life, yama and niyama practice makes all the difference, and when stability, right knowledge, moral strenght, courage, patience, equanimity are developed by them, than one is ready to witness/contact the wisdom of the processes (spiritual entities, remember, chakras have their corresponding deities) of one’s vital nature.

There are shortcuts, and they most of the time are damaging.