Only 2 days left for this week's meditation. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Still working on our sacral chakra this week. 

In today's episode, we talk more about the Sacral Chakra and our journal prompts for this week.

Our Sacral Chakra encourages us to get out and play, be creative, or find other ways to bring more joy into our life. What are some things you do for fun? When was the last time you did them? This week, try to find ways to have more fun in your life, even if it is something as simple as taking a walk outside or watching your favorite shows that you haven't made time for in a while. It could be writing, painting, drawing, or any other thing that lets you be creative, even cooking a beautiful meal can be creative. 

For this week's journal prompts

As always, grab your journal, your favorite pen, and your favorite beverage.

You can sketch, doodle, or write in your journal.

This week's prompts are

What can I do in my daily life to add more opportunities for play? 

What are some creative activities I have always wanted to try, but never have? What first steps can I take toward trying some of these activities?

What brings me joy? In what ways is my life filled with joy?

Remember there are no right or wrong answers, your journal is just for you, you can work on the prompts all week, on Sunday after meditation or Monday before the new week meditation or not at all if this is something you aren't confident with.

We're in our fourth week of meditations, if you are new to our meditations, you may want to go back and start at week 1 of season 2.

We're on week 4 of our daily practice in meditation. 

I hope you have been enjoying the past month's worth of meditations and have noticed some differences since starting. 

In this week's episode, we will work on our sacral chakra.

The color for this chakra is orange, the element is water. It is represented by a 6 petal lotus representing birth, death, and rebirth, with a crescent moon at its center.

The sacral chakra is related to the sexual organs, large intestine, urinary tract, lower vertebrae, pelvis, appendix, bladder, and hip area.

The mental and emotional issues the sacral chakra deals with are pleasure and indulgence, blame and guilt, money and sex, power and control, creativity, ethics, and honor in relationships.

Physical dysfunctions related to this chakra are chronic lower back pain, sciatica, OB/GYN problems, pelvic/low back pain, sexual potency or lack of, urinary problems

If you use essential oils, rosemary, juniper, sandalwood, jasmine, rose, Ylang Ylang, sage harmony, and Sara acceptance.

If you work with crystals, coral, carnelian, gold calcite and amber work well with this chakra.

The chant we will be doing this week is Vam.

This week's Mudra will be the thumb and little finger together.

Link to more info on Sacral Chakra

In today's episode, I’ll go over the journal prompts again, and talk about next week's episode.

I have also been thinking about adding interviews to Sunday’s episodes. I will interview someone locally to me and ask them several questions and possibly spread them out over a month of Sundays.  I thought though, I should probably answer the questions myself first since I don’t believe I have talked about myself very much or how I got here.

Questions I will answer this week are

How did you get where you are today?

Is this where you thought you would be now?

For this week's journal prompts

As always, grab your journal, your favorite pen, and your favorite beverage.

This week's prompts are

What basic needs are met in my life and what makes me grateful for each one?

What does it mean to me to be grounded? How can I bring the feeling of being grounded in my life?

Remember there are no right or wrong answers, your journal is just for you, you can work on the prompts all week, on Sunday after meditation or Monday before the new week meditation or not at all if this is something you aren't confident with.

Monday we will start working on our Sacral Chakra

Links to courses

Yogamu

Penn State World Campus

Almost finished week 3! 

I hope you are enjoying the additional work we have added to this week's practice. 

Happy Friday! I hope you are enjoying this week's meditation and the new additions to our daily practice.

Almost made it to the weekend!  I hope you are enjoying this week's meditations.

In today's episode, we will cover our weekly journaling prompts.

I also want to talk about why I chose the movements I did.

I do a lot of computer work and I also have degenerative discs in my neck. My neck and jaw area are where I carry the most stress and tightness.

I felt there are many people, looking down at computer screens, and cellphones, working at desks, and the shoulder and neck areas are just a place that tends to get stiff during the day. (I have added a poll for this in case people want them left in)

I felt shoulder and head rolls would help loosen up these areas and help us relax them and just notice these areas and what is going on with them. The hand movements are also a nice way to bring a little circulation to our hands and arms.

Ear massages not only feel really good but there are also a lot of acupressure points in the ears that cover various parts of the body and our moods.

For this week's journal prompts

As always, grab your journal, your favorite pen, and your favorite beverage.

This week's prompts are

What basic needs are met in my life and what makes me grateful for each one?

What does it mean to me to be grounded? How can I bring the feeling of being grounded in my life?

Remember there are no right or wrong answers, your journal is just for you, you can work on the prompts all week, on Sunday after meditation or Monday before the new week meditation or not at all if this is something you aren't comfortable with.

Links to more information on ear massages

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/de-stress/6-health-benefits-of-ear-massage-that-will-force-you-to-do-it-the-right-away/photostory/76961541.cms

https://www.binomassage.com/blog/the-benefits-of-ear-reflexology/