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The Right Shakti Yoga Wear Can Make Yoga Easier
Yogi Ashanti

Having the right shakti yoga wear may not seem like a big deal, but it can actually help you perform poses easier and enjoy what you are doing more. You need to be able to bend and twist with ease when you perform various yoga positions.

What Not to Wear

Getting the full benefits from yoga depends on your ability to successfully perform the positions. If you don’t have the right shakti yoga wear, that could be difficult to do, but just as importantly, you should know what not to wear. Thus, wearing clothes that restrict your body movements are a no-no and so your yoga wear cannot include wearing jeans, and also dress shirts that will only constrain your movements and also not let you breathe in a free manner. So, take a few minutes and really think about your yoga wear. Make sure you wear clothing that is loose fitting and unrestrictive.

Since you will need to perform a number of different yoga poses, you would do well to consider yoga shorts as well as perspiration clothes and even leotards or yoga pants as appropriate shakti yoga wear. You’ll also want to make sure your shakti yoga wear is made of absorbent fibers that won’t clump and stick to your skin.

Choosing comfortable shakti yoga wear is more important than choosing something fashionable. You want to be able to relax, and you won’t be able to do that if you are worrying about how you look. You may want to consider wearing yoga shoes or socks, especially if you attend a yoga class.

When you are choosing your shakti yoga wear there really isn’t much difference between women’s and men’s clothes (other than the cuts/contours of the pants). The only time you would need a specific kind of yoga gear is if you were going to perform Prana Yoga. This form of yoga requires you wear lightweight clothes, especially pants, preferably made of nylon or spandex.

You’ll still need shakti yoga wear that absorbs moisture, so go for a cotton/stretch blend. It will allow you to move the way you need for Prana Yoga, it’s light weight, and it will soak up that perspiration!

Author Ben Ashanti has made the art of yoga his life. To learn more about Yoga Sandals or if you’re interested in Yoga Poses for Tight Hamstings, visit his website.

Find Your Inner Peace With Chakras
Wyatt Pottoe

Searching for inner peace? First, you need to be able to identify your chakras.

Those who perform chakra meditation believe that the human body has vital points of energy. These energy centers are used consciously or unconsciously, and have great influence over our life experiences. “Chakra” is the term used to define these critical points.

Chakras are found in different areas throughout the human body. There are seven chakras in total, each holding influence over the area in which it is found. Every chakra has its own distinctive property.

There is a chakra, located at the base of the spine, known as the Root Chakra. The Root Chakra affects the health, structure and safety of your body. Traditionally called muladhara and also known as the coccyx, this chakra is associated with how one’s body links to the material world. It is also symbolized by a red-colored circle surrounded by four golden petals.

The Naval Chakra or svadisthana, a fundamental point located in the lower abdomen, is associated with the feelings of love, passion, sexuality as well as pleasure. People experiencing positive feelings would send feedback to this chakra, which is associated with the orange color.

The Solar Plexus Chakra is found just above the navel and below the chest. A vital point influencing one’s force and willpower, this chakra is the point at which self-control, authority and discipline. Yellow is the colour of this powerful chakra.

The Heart Chakra, or anahata, is found in the middle of the chest area. Love and understanding are the focus of this chakra, as well as the feelings that result from these sensations. The Heart Chakra is related to the colour green.

A critical point located in the throat area is called the vishuddha, or Throat Chakra. This chakra is linked to communication and associated with a sky blue colour.

The Brow Chakra or the anja is a vital point located on the forehead, just above the eyes. This chakra is associated with our sensitivity outside the physical sphere and is known to the Buddhists as the region of the “Third Eye.” This clairvoyance-related focus point is associated with the color indigo as well.

The Crown Chakra, or sahasrara, is found at the central point on top of the head. Naturally, this important chakra is concerned with the spirit and the mind. One’s consciousness and items related to the High Self are dictated by the violet-coloured Crown Chakra.

If you are interested in practicing Chakra meditation, you’ll find that it has the ability to stimulate your vital energy points and lead to beneficial side effects. Be careful though, as too much mental energy is not always wise for people who do participate in much physical activity. Ask for expert guidance when learning chakra meditation or you may risk developing personality problems due to a chakra imbalance.

Contributor Wyatt Pottoe is a columnist for numerous Internet magazines, on alternative health care and anti aging product subjects.

In recent weeks, I stood countless times in admiration in front of the beautiful rainbows, which have graced the sky of Boulder with their presence. Silent, still, eyes wide open admiring the multitude of colors enlightening the sky. I held the spectrum of light in sight, reflecting on the deep connection to colors I was feeling at that very moment and I have felt my whole life.

Witnessing, so many times in a few days, the beautiful experience of light passing through a perfect prism surely was the entire Universe reflecting back to me on the vision I had a year ago to give birth to Khroma Yoga. The Universe was telling me I had aligned with my purpose in life by embracing my passions for colors and yoga and engaging them professionally to express my most profound yearning to promote and support health and peace in my community and in the world. Engaging with my purpose was enabling my very own colors to unveil, my unique identity. The rainbow was literally the Universe nodding at me. And I have no doubt it was … Colors have been my light on yoga and yoga my light on Life.

However, I sure was not the only one in Boulder witnessing, admiring, and connecting with these rainbows! Yet my connection with them felt so unique! Well this is exactly it. My connection with it was unique, and so was that of everybody else! We each contemplated the same rainbows, yet each of us had a very different experience with it, each unique, with its own hue, and value and chroma. These differences in perceptions, stories, feelings, interpretations are exactly what makes up the full color spectrum of our world and all of it coming from the same source, light.

What holds for the rainbow, holds for all experiences. It does not matter how many people look at the same piece of Art, study the same subject, work in the same field, each and every single one of us have our own experience of it and, as a result, develop a very unique value that no one else except us can bring forth into the world.

This is the premise by which I flow in life and which  inspires my work with yoga, personal and marketing awareness. It is the seed from which I gave life to Khroma Yoga.

To your colors and all the colors of Life,

Cecile Desire, Founder of Khroma Yoga