Take a deep dive into the chakras with your YTA community!
Using Anodea Judith's Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to Self (EBWM) and Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakras (WOL) as our source material, each of our monthly discussions will focus on a single chakra. We will discuss our own understanding of these energy centers and how we experience them on and off the mat. We will have group discussion as well as breakout sessions for more intimate connections in smaller groups that will remain the same throughout the series.
We will meet on the following Mondays at 6:30–8:00PM:
- January 27, Introductions
- February 24, Root Chakra (Muladhara), Earth
- March 24, Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana), Water
- April 28, Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura), Fire
- June 2, Heart Chakra (Anahata), Love
- June 30, Throat Chakra (Visuddha), Sound
- July 28. Third Eye Chakra (Ajna), Light
- August 25, Crown Chakra (Sahasrara), Thought
To ensure confidentiality, sessions will not be recorded.
Please read each chakra's chapter in both books in advance of its meeting. If time is limited, EBWM has more background information and explains how each chakra is linked to a developmental stage and other Western social/psychological theories; WOL provides more detailed methods (yoga and otherwise) to balance each chakra.
About the books:
In Eastern Body, Western Mind, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics and applying the chakra system to important modern social realities and issues such as addiction, codependence, family dynamics, sexuality, and personal empowerment.
Each chapter focuses on a single chakra, starting with a description of its characteristics and then exploring its particular childhood developmental patterns, traumas and abuses, and how to heal and maintain balance.
Anodea Judith's classic introduction to the chakra system, Wheels of Life takes you on a powerful journey through progressively transcendent levels of consciousness. View this ancient metaphysical system through the light of new metaphors, ranging from quantum physics to child development.
Learn how to explore and balance your own chakras using poetic meditations and simple yoga movements―along with gaining spiritual wisdom, you'll experience better health, more energy, enhanced creativity, and the ability to manifest your dreams.
You can purchase the books at Bookshop.org (choose an independent bookstore to benefit before purchasing) or ThriftBooks, or order directly from a local bookstore.
Anodea Judith, Ph.D., has been called a prophet for our time. A globally recognized teacher, speaker, healer, and writer on the intersection of personal and collective awakening, her passion for the realization of our potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises—her fervent wish that we “wake up in time.”
Anodea holds master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology and health. She is a 500-hour E-RYT) and a therapist with lifelong studies in somatic psychology, mythology, history, sociology, systems theory, and mystic spirituality.
Anodea is best known for her groundbreaking work reviving the chakra system of ancient yoga, and its profound correlation to human psychology, cultural evolution, and the downward process of manifestation. Her award-winning and best-selling books have gained worldwide recognition with over a million books in print in 18 languages.
Learn more about Anodea Judith on her website.
