A few mondays ago for Meditation Monday we posted a photo of a yantra drawn by Audrey Ann Guedelekian. On Sunday, April 19, the day after our Saturday Trade and Donate to LGBT Homeless Youth Event, yoga instructor Phoebe Andrews will be teaching a workshop on how to draw the Jupiter yantra.
The placement and direction of your breath is key to calming down when anxious. When you’re anxious, notice if you mainly breathe in your chest and if your shoulders lift. Anxiety causes a disconnect with our first three chakras; root, sacral and solar plexus. This disconnect forces us to breathe up, up, up the body, into our chest causing anxiety. When anxious, breathe into your belly and direct your exhales down your body and into the Earth. Lengthen your exhales so they become longer than your inhales. This will bring breath back into the first three chakras to calm and center you.
This article is based on, and quotes taken from, a Yoga Journal article, “Yoga for Depression” written by doctor and yoga instructor, Timothy McCall, MD.
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