![]() This understands that through the body we can heal deep emotional and energetic aspects of ourselves, including our relationships. The purpose of yoga’s asana practice is to control the physical sensations to help tame the mind. In Patanjali’s yoga sutra 2.46, the physical postures of yoga should be sthira sukha: this is steadiness and ease. We find ourselves in destructive relationships of any kind with the world. It creates rigidity that prevents energy flow in the body and we find ourselves in a cycle of fear and tension. You run on a frantic energy or feel empty.Ī movement driven by fear feels tight, restrictive and gripping in the body. But fear is a violation of your natural energy and depletes you. Fear makes us believe that we can control the external world and our relationships. When we allow the mind to run wild it creates fear in our body. We relate to the world from our fears.Ĭontrol is necessary to discipline the mind and our direction of energy. The tense psoas originates near the diaphragm where tension spreads and impacts our breath – we feel anxious about the future and fail to hear our gut and heart to guide us. The overactive psoas muscle grips tight attempting to move us forward when its energetically holding us back. Short yet non-activating gluteus medius means that we drift sideways in our attempts to direct our lives. Our gluteus maximus is not driving us forward with gliding ease but grips or fails to activate – we are not moving forward in alignment, but forcing our paths. Imbalances in this region reflect profound destabilization in our relationship with our life. Sitting deeply deactivates the gluteal, abductor, pelvic floor and adductor muscles – our stabilizers that control our movement and direction in life. In recent years, studies show that ‘sitting is the new smoking’ for our health. Our physical gravitational center, Dan Tien in Tai Chi and core ‘powerhouse’ in Pilates. The physical body reflects the complexity of swadhisthana chakra through the intricate structure of the pelvis and low abdomen. This is about the ability to financially and physically survive on one’s own, defend and protect oneself, take risks, be resilient, choice in partners, property, occupation, and finances. A healthy balanced sacral chakra does not need to ‘sell’ or negotiate our identity with others to be self-sufficient and survive. Balanced against this need to control is the need to create: to let our ideas be shared and create bonds with others.Īs we learn our own strength with the external world we learn about the seductive forces of sex, money and addictive behaviors. As a child, swadhisthana evolves when we begin to become more independent and desire control over our external world. This chakra is the home of duality, which is the origin of relationships. To heal low back pain, we should work with the body, mind, and energy of our being. Our energetic home about our relationships with the external world – how we assert and permit control and flow in our lives. This physical issue originates from the second chakra, swadhisthana. Low back issues and sacroiliac problems are a plague in our current society. Several people come to a yoga class to ease their back pain. ![]()
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