#kundalini dance

[krystals-posts]

🧜🏼‍♀️ MermaidNinja 💎 📝 Message in a Bottle 🍾: Keep the energy moving! Just keep swimming or rolling or whatever… you can do it. Stay in orbit ! After a huge fall on my tail last year and most recently a bone marrow test, I am finally healed enough to get back on the quad skate! Inspired by my beautiful mermaid sister @oolahulahoopandflow <— amazing 😻 I am so grateful 🥹 words cannot express how much love 💕 I feel. Divine timing and let’s be honest $pricing$ brought me these great skates to start my training up again. My old skates are donated to a new tribe that can hopefully 🙏🏽 use them to vibe. 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Captains Log ⭐️ Stardust Date: 05.12.2022 ⭐️ Today will be day 3 🥰- I can only get on rolls 20’min at a time before the muscles start to hurt 😔 ✨Sky 🗺 Map✨ 📝 note: 🙊 Mercury in Retro: Get it get it get it ! Roll baby ! You’ve got this. If I can do it so can anyone else. Whatever project you put down it’s safe to go back revise and review - Mercury Retrograde can do this too! Remember BREATHE and HYDRATE (water) Always ~ Be a YOUniquorn🦄. Mermake today your #OM 🕉 💜 Thank you Xoxo 😘, 🦄 KMacK 🧜🏼‍♀️ 🏴‍☠️ 👽 🧚🏼‍♀️ #mermaidkrystal #mermaid #krystal #pirate #priestess #rollerskating #moonwalker #moon #gypsy #moonboots #moonlightroller #mymoonboots #snakeskin #kundalini #dance #skateshop #rollerskater #charmer #skateeverydamnday @moonlightroller https://www.instagram.com/p/CddhsUNrzEQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#om #mermaidkrystal #mermaid #krystal #pirate #priestess #rollerskating #moonwalker #moon #gypsy #moonboots #moonlightroller #mymoonboots #snakeskin #kundalini #dance #skateshop #rollerskater #charmer #skateeverydamnday

[turiyatitta]

The Unveiling Dance

My Journey into Turiyatita and Kundalini Awakening Amid the delicate balance of the manifest and the unmanifest, my soul stumbled upon the ethereal doorway to Turiyatita on a serene afternoon of December 14, 2019. Turiyatita, a whisper in the cosmos resonating with the enigmatic essence of nondual suchness, unfurled before me as my passport to the indescribable singularity of absolute being.…

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#Absolute Being #Cosmic Dance #Divine Amalgamation #Enlightenment #Kundalini Awakening #Nondual Reality #Oneness #spiritual awakening #Turiyatita #yoga

[kingoftheblacksun]

Hello Tumblr, I am a wild dog who likes to do cosmic dancing time space Destroyer magicks, how are you today? 💖⚡️✨️

#trans girl #the goddess #kundalini #dancer #queer community #queer pride #halloween #ministry #cosmic dance #trans lesbian #occultism #left hand path #kali #shakti #siva #inhumanity

[anthonyvgibby]

Type of Meditations

Review these 21 meditation types to find the perfect #meditation to fit your life.

From religious and spiritual traditions, meditation has been a component of human civilization for generations. In recent years, it has become more well-known as a way to improve both physical and mental health. It might be challenging to know where to begin with the wide variety of meditation techniques available. In addition to offering advice on how to get started, this article will give a…

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#Body Scan #Body scan meditation #Breath Awareness #Breath awareness meditation #Chakra #Chakra meditation #Dance meditation #Deep Breathing #Faith #Faith-based meditation #Guided Meditation #Kundalini #Kundalini meditation #Loving-Kindness #Loving-kindness meditation #Mantra #Mantra meditation #Meditation #Mindfullness #Mindfulness meditation #Movement meditation #Qi Gong #Qi Gong meditation #Qigong #Qigong Meditation #Religion #Sound Meditation #Tai Chi #Tai Chi meditation #Taoist

[shaktidancegoddess]

I stay on it through my good days and bad days. The consistency of my practices brings me back to joy. #shaktidance #yoga #yogalife #yogalove #yogawomen #feminineyoga #yogaofdance #kundalini #danceyoga #dance #sacreddance #yogadance #mantras #meditation #sacredpower #shakti #goddess #sacreddancers #sacredwomen #sisterhood #womensretreats (at Shakti Dance Goddess) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClzxF6SMX_5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#shaktidance #yoga #yogalife #yogalove #yogawomen #feminineyoga #yogaofdance #kundalini #danceyoga #dance #sacreddance #yogadance #mantras #meditation #sacredpower #shakti #goddess #sacreddancers #sacredwomen #sisterhood #womensretreats

[lilith-incarnate]

˗ˏˋ𝑶𝒏𝒆ˎˊ˗

I purposefully made your pick a card photo very vibrant and bright like the light you’re avoiding! You can’t keep running! You want to stand out, but you don’t want to be vulnerable in front of so many eyes. This pile is artistic and sensitive! Britney’s Blue Jean Dress is telling me you have humble beginnings, but if you step out of the shadows, you can achieve something great. With that iconic dress, Britney combined her standout Sagittarius personality with her southern roots. You don’t have to be anyone, but yourself! and you have the choice to let your past hold you back from moving forward. The Faery in the 2 of wands is even being shy, she’s trying to decide if she should step out of her safe garden. If she keeps hiding away, she could end up missing out on wonderful new connections and experiences. To live a life well lived, we have to take risks sometimes. For example, most people’s first risk in life is riding a bike without training wheels. Most of us took that risk because the desire for more freedom greatly overshadowed our fear of getting hurt. Nothing changes until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change. Set aside that trepidation and step into the light! You have so much to gain. Your future is b r i g h t ☆

── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ.───

꒰ 𝓣𝔀𝓸 ꒱

Those who have chosen this pile seem to have a worry that they will live an unfulfilled love life. If you enjoy pick a cards or tarot readings, you have likely heard the terms soulmate or twinflame. Romance is (and always will be) a hot topic for tarot readers because so many people are concerned about the state of their love life or it’s future. Everyone wants to be loved. You’re seeing people in relationships and feeling like that experience will escape you in this life. The short answer is, love will not escape you. There’s a great, deep desire to love and be loved. It stands out immensely. You may have had a few relationships already. Encounters or relationships will seem to not pan out, but this is a part of your personal evolution. You are learning about yourself. Remember this, anything or anyone that falls away from you is meant to happen. So, move through this life gracefully like a dancer. I’m not saying to avoid feeling all the colors of your emotions, dancers need their emotions! Don’t cling to people or to situations. Be secure in yourself because in this life, change is a guarantee. I’m sure you’ve realized by now that it’s not stagnant people who get want they want it life. So, don’t get fixated on the development of your love life. There's nothing wrong with being curious from time to time, of course :) Just remember... Life has other things to show you that are just as important as love. You do know how to dance, don’t you?

* . °•★|•°∵ ∵°•|☆•° .*

ʚ 𝓣𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓮 ɞ

You are a hard worker and it’s possible you’ve been working a bit too hard since the Rest Card is here. You’re working towards something very important and that’s very honorable, but rest is just as important. It is possible to be too tired to enjoy the fruits of your labor! And that’s no good. Life is a balancing act! Like Britney holding that beautiful boa, you have the confidence within you to be the master of your own life. Now, from an entirely esoteric perspective, this snake is a representative of ancient knowledge, kundalini energy and sexuality. You might be involved in the occult. I’m definitely seeing a priestess here… somebody working the roots/earth. Maybe it’s an ancestor of yours if you’re not interested in the occult. You have knowledge in you that’s not from this time. It’s from your bloodline, it’s from your past lives. The World represents total completion. It’s all coming full circle in this incarnation. You mean a lot to your ancestors and I hope you remember this. They guided your soul here to help heal and elevate your bloodline. You're sitting on a spiritual throne created by those before you. Whatever you choose to do in this life, you're meant to be a master at it.

── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆──

「𝓕𝓸𝓾𝓻」

Shining Stars have chosen this pile. Aries energy. If you don’t have a major Fire placement in your astrology chart, I’m going to be surprised. A lot of Leaders in this pile. Some of you may be reading this from your little bed and thinking, “I’m not leading anything.”

You’re not leading just yet... but you will. There is a time and place for everything, like they always say. All these card you see are a nod towards your future. If you are drawn to pile 3 as well, I won’t be surprised. The energies are similar but while pile 3 was more so esoteric/spiritual, this pile is about the material world. Thanks to social media, we are in an era where anyone at anytime can become a star whether it’s forever or for “15 minutes”. For good or ill. Many people want to be known or to “influence” and engaging on social media might make you feel like just another drop in the water. But every one is just a part of the whole, so just because there are so many stars of different calibers coming and going, it doesn’t mean you’re not meant to be one. You have the fire within you to reach that standout position, Aries is about sheer willpower. You will go for it and you will shine for it... when it is your time.

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❝ 𝓕𝓲𝓿𝓮 ❞

Abundance. By now, I’ve recognized a theme amongst these piles lol. Leo energy here again, a fire element. It’s also the sign of Fame. Check where Leo is placed in your birth chart, by the way. You have seen visions of your future. You may have had dreams or had visions during your waking hours. Glimpses of the future that brushes pass your mind like the wind. It’s like Spirit/the universe gives you pieces of the puzzle here and there, but the pieces aren’t matching just yet. You’re not meant to know all the details of the future or you’ll get in your own way. That’s why even the best psychics aren’t always exact with their predictions. Spirit/The universe will only reveal so much. Now, I was little when Britney Spears hit pop stardom, but she was one of my first musical interests. Her outfits in the 90s - 00s are imprinted in my mind. You have The Trailblazer outfit and it��s one of my favorite Britney outfits. You see, that’s the thing about Britney… she’s humble, but not afraid to stand out with her fashion tastes or with her talents. How do you want to stand out in this life? Are you ready to lead the way for others?

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:

⋆𝓢𝓲𝔁⋆

“My loneliness ain’t killing me no more,”

That’s what Britney sings in ‘Stronger’, referencing that “My loneliness is killing me” line in ‘Baby One More Time”. She’s the Strong Woman now because she’s been through the trials and tribulations of life and has learned so much. 10 of Pentacles and the Fool, these are major cards. The 10 of pentacles represents your material legacy: what you will build up in this life and leave behind after you die. This card ties into the Cast Your Sacred Symbols card, which is a card about making your ripple effect in the world. The Fool card advises you to approach life more playfully and have Trust in yourself. We like to seek answers outside of ourselves, but the majority of the time, we already know what we need to do. The advice is: Express yourself more and explore this world you were born into! The story of your legacy has already started and the next chapter starts with experiencing something brand new. A career, a study, a friendship, a love…

my prev pick a cards:

.˳⁺⁎˚ ꒰ఎ The present place you find yourself is just as important as the future. ໒꒱ ˚⁎⁺˳ .

★This general pick a card reading is centered on the Britney Spears oracle deck. Most of you may already know Britney is a Sagittarius sun, so I felt like this was a good time to use this deck. I hope you find that the messages resonated, Britney fan or not ♡ don't hesitate to let me know! Thank you for being here with me.★

#tarot #tarot reading #pick a card #divination #spirituality #pick a card readings

[magumsilvarum]

Spirits and their common uses and misconceptions

So today I wanted to talk about a few spirits which, not much is so far known of through literary writing, but more so through celestial knowledge. (each spirit will have its own section)

The Pythoness - many Christian and Judea religions view the pythoness spirit as a demon like spirit that is meant to steer one away from Gods path and imbue one with negative thoughts such as death and sickness through the mind, yet I've personally found and many civilizations prior and after that the story is not as such. In yogic practices there is a certain breathe and practice of the kundalini. Kundalini is the term for "a spiritual energy or life force located at the base of the spine", conceptualized as a coiled-up serpent. The practice of Kundalini yoga is supposed to arouse the sleeping Kundalini Shakti from its coiled base through the 6 chakras, and penetrate the 7th chakra, or crown. This allows for an open pathway as a connection to God, elevated spirits and the spirits of the afterlife, our ancestral spirits, within celestial planes. In buddhism giant serpents were seen as protectors of the dharma, the truth that liberates us, standing strong against any attack. Many psychics, seers, mediums, witches and tarot card readers tend to have a spirit who knows one of two things about divination, prophecy and esoteric knowledge, but the pythoness spirit is looked at more like the all seeing eye or the eye of ra and horus. In greek mythology Leto the great she-wolf was cursed to never give birth upon the land as Hera set her out to be cursed by her daughter and for Gaia to not allow her to give birth to her two children. Through Zeus' interference Leto was able to give birth to both Artemis and Apollo. Later Apollo went to go slay a Snake that had threatened Leto and therefore gained the ability to turn into a snake himself. He declared the island previously known as Pythos to be Delphi and as the God of prophecy later became a hub for those seeking answers from great oracles once a year, known as Pythias. These women were great prophets and witches alike that danced with fire and tamed snakes to dance along with them protecting the island from attacks and monsterous threats as to pay respect to Apollo. These were women and men of wild nature who allows there instincts to guide them through the understanding of the great divine. One with nature they became medicine workers, prophets, seers, musicians, dancers, pyromancers, snake charmers, witches and mages and dream weavers.

These great spirits are revered as a highly elevated court in spiritualist practices, sometimes just perceived as the spirits of tarot decks or oracular objects they are forgotten as being far too complex to be seen as just that. Through the force of light they bring great aid to those they are on spiritual journey's with, they rid of hexes, curses and spiritual illnesses. They guide through prophetic dreams, clairvoyancy, clairsentience, clairaudience and mediumship. They are capable of conjuring powerful spirits and the spirits of the dead (necromancy), as well as a straight line communication to God, gods and goddesses. They move through the celestial tides of the universe and bring forth great health, wealth, abundance, freedom and spiritual knowledge to those they favor. They are quite benevolent spirits who help bring in death or the spirit of change for the better and to rid old stubborn ways of the past. They are great teachers of dark and light magic. They aid in learning and music as well. Helping those with charisma and the ability to enchant and/or charm enemies and others alike. They have such affinity towards chocolates, gold, silver, wine, fire, candles, light, mirrors, divination tools, water, flowers and floral scents, perfumes, snakes and music. There number is 7 and their flower is the rose, particularly the white rose, but other colors are fine as well. They also enjoy sunflowers, as they venerated Apollo, and the Anise star. Their colors are Red, burgundy, gold, emerald green, white, silver, purple, and brown. Yet each is different and might prefer a royal blue for all we know each spirit is different to another so getting to know ones spiritual court is quite important. Stones like diamond, ruby, jade, emerald, citrine, labradorite and amethyst can be given to such spirit as well as Selenite and Amber each representing Artemis and Apollo. These spirits can sometimes be confused with a better known spirit Santa Martha la Dominadora. You may even have both within your spiritual court, but they two hold many similarities.

Prayer to the Pythoness

O Blessed Pythoness, I invoke your humble yet wild nature into my life, I give you thanks for the visions told and untold and for the sight to see my path clearly. May your connection to God and all living things be great and full of love and respect. May your tides of wisdom bring peace to the land and bestow upon me and my loved ones a blessed hand. Lady of the fire, imbue me with your holy flames may they burn away all evil done unto me by others or by my own hand. May your light charm those who seek no good into doing acts of kindness and greatness and may your soothing voice bring sweetness and riches to the land and seas. You the one who tamed the dragon and serpent to your gracious hand. Tame my enemies and bring good fortune to those in need. Help the world against devastation and may your great cobra bring forth the promise land. Lady of the land and sea, conjure your celestial winds to protect me and bring good news from the heavenly lands. Through the eye of the one who can see I plea to you humbly and in need. As it is. So mote it be. Amen

Say this prayer with Psalm 91 3x and Psalm 4 3x under the flame of a white(or yellow) light end with a Glory be. It will help receive divine messages through divination or prophetic dreams and help transmute negative energy and protect against evil eye.

Oracion a La Pitonisa

O Bendita Pitonisa, Yo invoco tu humilde y salvaje espiritu de naturaleza entre mi vida, te doy las gracias por los visiones contado y no contado y por la vista para ver mi camino claramente. Que tu conexión a Dios y a todas criaturas vivas sea lleno de gran amor y respeto. Que las olas de sabiduria traen paz a toda la tierra y otogar a mi y mis seres queridos tu mano bendicida. Mujer de los fuegos, envuelvame con tus llamas benditas que me liberan de cualquier maldad sea enviado por enemigos o que han nacido de mi propia mano. Que tu luz encandile a los que no buscan el bien y les transformas hacer actos de carino y grandeza y que tu voz encantadora trae dulcisimiento y riquezas a la tierra y los mares. Tu que haz vencido el serpiente y el dragon con tu mano graciosa. Ayuda al mundo contra la devastación y que tu tierra prometida sea traido por tu gran cobra. Mujer de la tierra y mar, protejame con los vientos celestiales y que traen buena noticias del cielo. A través del ojo del que puede ver te suplico humildemente y de necesidad. Como es. Asi sera. AMEN

#espiritismo #spiritualism #spirituality #magic #white magic #spirits #pythia #pythoness #pitonisa #witchcraft #prayers #spiritualcourt #sanse #spells #brujo #bruja #brujeria #pagan #animism #ritual #occult #occultism #magick #esoteric #god #elevatedspirits #los espiritus #espiritus elevados

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

#cosmic #dance #sacred space #synchronicity #couples tantra #kundalini #flow #eventually everything connects

[eatmangoesnekkid]

Belly Dance Observations Week 4

I am now going on record to state that belly dance is an essential ingredient for every female body interested in accessing its innate divine feminine power in a more accelerated journey. What I noticed this week was that my breasts have reverted back to their 20 year old texture. But it’s not about the aesthetics —they are lovely don’t get me wrong, but I'm 47 and not looking for my 20 year breasts...it is just what happened naturally. What enlivens me, what lights up my eyes and dilates my blood vessels, is that I have accessed another portal to tapping into larger untapped kinetic potential (energy, mystery, and freedom) held in the female body. More inner sunlight!

Speaking to another dance student in my class —a 60 year old body-aware ex-ballerina, she shared how she felt the same way when she first started and continues to feel that heightened radiance after each class. I get it though! The hips, spine, and belly hold power that fuels our entire ecosystem. They are the sunlight currency systems! Because I’m a pole dancer, a building/strengthening and flexibility-inducing sexy art, I felt the clarion call to nurture my center of reality with more fluidity and yin, to soften my belly and hips sort of speak. A soft belly with strong flexible legs means that the body is receiving an abundance of earth and water energy from the ground, the earth. Water and earth energy create a strong healthy lubricated female body wellspring. A lubricated female body is actually pulsing with the universe, which isn't about sex, as lovely and delicious as heart-connected sex can be. It is about creation. The creation of new narratives. The shimmies, hip drops, and belly shakes/pumps heat up or activate kundalini to help clear densely-blocked channels in our bellies from unresolved emotions in this recent life and past lives and the detached depression we continue to carry from our foremothers/forefathers trying to navigate inhumane, insanity, predatory Western systems, AND the repression from violence against our grandmothers and the accompanying terror of living in a female body throughout lifetimes.

Whew chile! No wonder so many of us behave out of alignment with our highest potential. But the beauty is that we are shifts and plot twists in our grandmothers' narratives. We have the opportunity NOW to heal in ways that our beloved grandmothers didn't have the opportunity to. Couple that with the fact that if we had a rough childhood, we must process those suppressed emotions throughout our bodies—loosen the shit up so that they can decalcify and be transmuted into more space and love that opens the way to making NEW CHOICES and IMPLEMENTING NEW HABITS🕊️! If you are highly-sensitive and empathetic like I am as well and have been working to open up your heart—to increase your frequency/magnetism through accessing more of your heart space, belly dance (or some other passionate movement like belly self-massages or other belly/hip grabbing, ass-gripping, and spine-undulating, deep-breathing touch during lovemaking) is essential and completely non-negotiable. Hot damn!

My teacher asked the other day how old I was. And she had to sit down in a chair in disbelief when I told her. I live a regenerative life and am always discovering new ways this body my soul essence lives inside of can come alive so that I share the discoveries with other women and non-binary people. I am sooooo in love with belly dance! If you are not resourced enough to get to a class, go to YouTube and find tutorials there. Play around there with moving your belly, back and hips in 4-dimensional ways. Trance out with it.

Such a big part of what I believe my role as a woman/myth being is to bequeath other women with the wisdom to navigate this human existence, to land fully in their bodies in this incarnation, and know in deepest sense that all of us is worthy and welcomed. We get to be in relationship with our bodies and all the feels-- from deep love to deep anger to sadness to pristine ecstasy. To feel them and let them run/drip/leak/undulate and be seen/felt in them and sometimes go deeply into what’s underneath when desired. In my last class, I cried for some unknown reason. It was incredibly liberating to just let it flow and move on.

Sometimes what I witness happen with women is that when we start feel our denser suppressed emotions like anger or rage, we stay in them for years....unconsciously-- without awareness, creating other calcifications like fibriods or tumors from either being easily triggered by the external world, not detoxifying and moving enough through our processes, or of course, never accessing what has been suppressed. And I get it too--it's a lot happening all at once and it can be a tough game to play . But this is the times we are living in and sometimes it's just hard so learn to be okay with life being hard while also keenly aware that it doesn’t always have to be. We have to be lovers again. A lover state of being is essential for our bodies' highest harmonies. But we also must be a bit like martial arts and warriors. Capoeira-style in the shape of belly dancers. We have to be here for all of it.

With feeling, also *practice* feeling the emotions that may be less natural for you to feel right now like joy, gratitude, appreciation, tenderness, ecstasy, softness, sweetness, relaxation, and serenity. Normalize these states so that your body receives neurotransmitters, endorphins, oxytocin, and serotonin that help to nourish and repair it. Rest, hike, touching, kissing, really good sex, good nourishing food, healthy relationships, laughter, limiting social media/tv, creativity/finishing projects, good music, and of course dance. As you release and open, you may find yourself rarely usurping emotions like "anger." Not that anything is bad/wrong about the very useful emotion of anger but when you consciously create your life, the more fulfilled you become, the less necessary the energy of anger becomes for you in how you process or experience life. But if ever needed again, you know how to access your anger, embrace it, and hold yourself in it by feeling it into a warm flow.

[crazycatsiren]

Chakras - What they really are

(I managed to salvage this post written by @rue-cimon from an old deactivated account. I copied it down here because this was too good a post to lose.)

Chakra literally means "wheel" or "circle" in Sanskrit. The concept of chakras originates from Hinduism in ancient India. These are focal points used in a variety of ancient meditation or yoga practices. These practices are collectively called "tantra".

Although the concept is frequently found in early traditions of Hinduism and are often mentioned in the Vedas, beliefs around chakras differ between various Indian religions. Buddhist texts consistently mention 5 chakras, whereas Hindu texts and sources speak of 6 or 7 chakras.

Early Sanskrit texts speak of them both as meditative visualizations combining flowers and mantras and as physical entities in the body. Within kundalini yoga, various breath exercises, visualizations, mudras, kriyas, and mantras are focused on manipulating the flow of subtle energy through chakras.

Chakras are also present in Ayurvedic traditions.

The belief behind chakras is that human life simultaneously exists in two parallel dimensions, one is the physical body and the other is psychological, emotional, mind, non physical (the subtle body).

The aforementioned subtle body is energy, while the physical body is mass. The psyche or mind plane corresponds to and interacts with the body plane, and the belief holds that the body and the mind mutually affect each other. The subtle body consists of energy channels connected by nodes of psychic energy called chakras.

The chakras - in Hindu and Buddhist texts - are said to be arranged in a column along the spinal cord, from its base to the top of the head, connected by vertical channels. Tantric traditions strive to awaken, master, and energize these chakras through yoga and often with the help of a teacher.

The esoteric traditions in Buddhism generally teach four chakras. In some early Buddhist sources, these chakras are termed as manipura (navel), anahata (heart), vishuddha (throat), and ushnisha kamala (crown). However, a system of five chakras is common among classes of tantra in Tibetan Buddhism. These five chakras are basal, abdominal, heart, throat, and crown, and each chakra corresponds with an element, a Buddha, and a bija mantra.

The more common and most studied chakra system incorporates six major chakras along with a seventh center generally not regarded as a chakra.

The chakras are traditionally considered meditation aids. The yogi starts from lower chakras and progresses to the highest chakra located in the crown of the head, in the journey of spiritual ascent.

In the Hindu kundalini and Buddhist candali traditions, the chakras are pierced by a dormant energy residing near or in the lowest chakra. in Hindu texts she is known as Kundalini, while in Buddhist texts she is called Candali or Tummo.

Some terms and definitions:

Tantra: Esoteric traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India mainly during the middle of the 1st millennium CE. The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique, or practice. A key feature of these traditions is the use of mantras.

Kundalini yoga: A type of yoga focused on channeling energy through the chakras.

Mudra: A symbolic or ritual gesture or pose in Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. Mudras have meaning in many forms of Indian dance and yoga. In hatha yoga, mudras are used in conjunction with pranayama (yogic breathing exercises), generally while in a seated posture, to stimulate different parts of the body involved with breathing and to affect the flow of prana and is associated with consciousness in the body. Mudras are also used in tantric practices.

Kriya: Practice within a yoga discipline meant to achieve a specific result. The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali defines three types of kriya, namely asceticism, study, and devotion. Such yoga is called kriya yoga. Kriya is a Sanskrit word that literally means "to do" or "to work".

Mantra: A sacred utterance, a sound, a syllable, word, or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit, Pali, and other languages. They hold spiritual and religious significance. At its simplest, the word "om" serves as a mantra. It is believed to be the first sound which was originated on earth. It creates a reverberation in the body which helps the body and mind to be calm. In more sophisticated forms, mantras are melodic phrases with spiritual interpretations such as a human longing for truth, reality, light, immortality, peace, love, knowledge, and action. Not all mantras have literal meanings but rather are simply uplifting.

Ayurveda: An alternative medicine system with historical roots in ancient India.

#chakras #hinduism #buddhism #witches of color #asian religions #eastern spirituality #ancient india #asian witches #buddhist witches

[talonabraxas]

The Soul Body

The soul body generates electromagnetic energy in the form of visible light, which is interconnected with our chakras. This energetic field, often referred as our “aura,” changes based on our emotional or physical well-being. The word aura comes from the Sanskrit words, aur and wer, meaning to “raise or hold suspended.” In yogic tradition, Kundalini energy or “serpent power” rises from the root chakra to the crown.

Serpents are ancient symbols of transformation and growth that represent the harmonious duality of life and death, light and dark, good and evil. In Hebrew, these “serpents of fire and light” were known as seraphim, the angelic beings who protected the “throne of god” in the Seventh Heaven.

In Judaic mysticism, Uriel is the archangel of wisdom, who gave the book of secrets to Metatron. In Kabbalistic thought, this wisdom is the way of the return through the “Tree of Life”.

In Greco-Roman tradition the two serpents on the Caduceus of the messenger gods Hermes and Mercury, were symbols of peaceful power and diplomacy. In alchemy, two serpents represented the balance of opposing forces. This is similar to the Taoist philosophy of yin-yang. Yin is the silvery moon energy (female/night) that receives light. Yang is the golden sun energy (male/day) that penetrates dark. They create life in a harmonious dance between chaos and peace.

By imagining these two serpents of light moving in harmony through the seven worlds of our chakras we can create balance within our self.

Message: This is a time to create balance in all areas of life. If we are feeling stuck or are in chaos, remember that this is temporary, for all things change. Imagine being at peace with change as an opportunity to create a new way of being. By connecting with our chakras, we can improve our internal flow of life force energy, and find the peace we need within us.

“It is not the body, nor the personality, that is the true self. The true Self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves. My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.” – Marcus Aurelius –

Chakra – Color – Seven Worlds

1.Root – Red – Physical World

2. Sacral – Orange – Emotional World

3.Solar Plexus – Yellow – Mythic World

3.Heart – Green – Energetic World

5.Throat – Blue – Past World

6.Third Eye – Violet – Present World

7.Crown – White – Future World

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Apartment.Gallery

That gap between the door and the floor, a crack where crushed sun leaks in. This is what I see before entering Apartment Gallery. All I really remember about the stairwell is the muddy dark brown wood of everything, cut by hiatuses of off-white walls.

It’s an apartment but there isn’t any furniture. There are the paintings, and barely anything else to take in besides them. Two rooms with pictures: the living room and a small bedroom to the left of the kitchen. And in the kitchen there’s an orange slice keychain on a countertop.  People huddle in two’s and three’s, their bodies become one big eye, with their heads the iris and turning peripherally. Then at the end of the night, everyone is crosseyed and bowlegged. Always one eye on the painting, the other on your interlocutor.

The show. Two painters unite. Kevin Larmee and Vogel Morra, hung and organized by Blaise — Kevin’s son, the cartoonist — in Chicago’s upper Northside. Kevin Larmee paints people, docks, water, sunless sky (the Beginning)  and moonless sky (the End). And Morra paints people, flowers, vases, windows, fireplaces, chairs, and trees. Larmee and Morra’s paintings are joined by the grace and awkwardness needed to dance. Larmee favors blues and blacks, bruising the canvas as a necessary arrow of love. Morra: purples and pinks.

The opening is like this: a dotted line tracing a butterfly’s ditz through the sky.

by Brianna Perry @precious-silly-thing

for House on Fire (2dcloud)

It’s mostly Blaise’s friends here. They seep through the doorway, many of them seem to be meeting for the first time. Someone asks me what I do and I say I am an artist. It feels less embarrassing to say that here. I ask someone,  ‘Are you a painter?’ A mawkish ‘kind of’ comes out of her mouth. Some of them are grad students at the University of Chicago, members of a Javanese gamelan ensemble. Spotted: Ash H.G., a cartoonist with a forthcoming graphic novel called East District. And Katherine Dee, the writer and internet anthropologist. The show’s artists are missing. “They’re both mysterious, so — “ trails off Blaise.

Paintings are the alignment of constellations, the flipping of a lucky cigarette into the first spot in a pack, stubby toes on crushed velvet. The fracture is fifty words for snow. Dipping a brush in dreamless water, shaping its hair into a fine cone. A brush’s bristles can be tweezed easily from hogs, sables, minks, mongooses, horses, ponies, wolves, sheep, rabbits, goats, camels, and oxen. The bristles are bred for this, a descending column of Kundalini blockages. A brush is vestigial. We can paint with slices of clementine if we weather the juice.

Larmee’s pictures are cosmic in subject matter but not in scale. There is a tiny importance to them, like a single petal or a Beanie Baby. When I said Larmee painted people, I include angels in this category. A redheaded angel appears opposite his depiction of two figures in silhouette, where one is leading the other through a building being destroyed in a fire.

Morra’s paintings are predominated by portraiture. The figures are nearly expressionless and anhedonic. It becomes increasingly important to the viewer to determine if the scene painted is candid or posed. Argument for candid: the space surrounding the figures is inchoate, tohu-bohu Rastafari. Argument for posed: Everyone who poses for Morra instantly become an image. Morra’s people scrape by with very little definition: a dot that’s an eye, a line that’s a mustache. The figures are saved from facelessness. It’s not anonymity, it’s privacy.

There’s mackerel, rice, beer, an idiom of wine whose name I can’t recall. Stephen tells me the name of the wine and I ask ‘Is that a director?’

The sun’s setting, each ray in danger of falling off the central axis. Larmee’s paintings illuminated in ring-like formations, the sun contouring each painting like melted popsicle circumscribing a mouth. The paintings are all surface: there is no pretense given to stain. It’s a painting. The application of paint is thick, white light is pressed and squeezed out between figures or waves.

Morra lets more light in. There are passages of color above solid blocks of pigment. The subjects of Morra’s paintings are alone. This painter favors the margin. Men sit in corners or against walls, ever brooding. Only the trees feel collective—  as faceless, inconspicuous, upright weather vanes. The brushstrokes staccato across the picture plane, each tree having its own auric shield. A tree in the foreground, cooped in pinks. Morra’s paintings are all wall, retaining walls to be specific.

Rock-em sock-em puddles of grass indiscriminately line the bottom of Morra’s painting of trees. This is a terpene-lined pastoral. In the living room, Larmee’s dorky grisaille and oceanic ground respond in kind. The dharma of every picture is that each brushstroke precipitates on the surface of the canvas, foggy warm breath making opaque condensation drawings on the pane of the viewer’s mind.

People fall in and out of the apartment.

And there’s a declining population by 6:30. Conversation has given way to current events. I feel good, because I have talked to everyone there an adequate amount.

One last note: Larmee’s paintings are business-casual, Morra’s are a loosened necktie after a long day at the office. Morra’s paintings struggle to unmoor themselves, the untucked canvas looping around the picture plane like ice cream birthday cake frosting.

The opening’s over. Stragglers sit crosslegged on the floor or perch on the window sill. The sky is purple and blue allover, high noon finally celebrating its quinceañera. It’s getting late, people return to their lives. All we have left is a painting between us, a sick twisted jeremiad dedicated to autumn.

Apartment Gallery is an apartment and gallery on Chicago’s north side. Vogel Morra and Kevin Larmee ran from September 30th to October 23rd, 2023.

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Once the seven chakras have been purified ~ where 51% of our divine spiritual energy is able to flow through our system ~ the divine energy from the kundalini will rise, breaking the seven seals that have been placed over our seven chakras that have kept us veiled and bound by the duality of the 3rd dimension. Once the veils of amnesia/blocks are removed our higher/spiritual chakras will be activated, and we will continue to open and expand our being based on our commitment and level of dedication to our "spiritual practice". There are many, many chakras beyond the 7 ~ but it is the 7 primary chakras that are the rainbow bridge that connect our physical body to our Divine Spirit.

The best way to open and purify the seven chakras is through:

1. HEALING THE SHADOW AND EGO CONSCIOUSNESS

2. Meditation and Visualization

3. Energy work such as Pranic Healing, Reiki, DNA Theta, Cranial Sacral or any other energetic modality

4. Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi or any kind of exercise will increase energy circulation through our chakra system and break up old stagnant blocks.

5. Allowing yourself to process through your emotions and feelings by "FEELING" them. Stored unprocessed feelings create blocks in the chakras that block the flow of divine energy.

6. Practicing Self Love and Oneness

7. Living an AUTHENTIC life.

8. Speaking Our Truth with words of LOVE.

9. Expressing Gratitude.

10. Channeling Creative Energies through art, dance, cooking, writing, singing etc....

11. Energy activations such as a Reiki Attunement, Deeksha, DNA Activation etc.....

I have read several teachings where people are saying ~ if you do not focus on your higher chakras, those above the seven ~ you will be limited and holding yourself back. However, from my perspective, the only way you could hold yourself back is if you don't do any spiritual work at all, and you choose to keep your self stuck in shadow and ego consciousness. In addition, the higher spiritual chakras simply will not open until the lower seven have been purified. Each chakra is a doorway or portal into higher consciousness and once they are understood, opened and cleared we move into a state of wholeness bringing our Spirit down into matter. Once this occurs, then we can focus on the higher ones and our spiritual self will continue to open and expand those that we are ready to have activated ~ based on our level of vibration.

If we get over zealous in our spiritual practice thinking we can skip over the building blocks of our spiritual expansion we may run into problems. It is kind of like a baby learning how to walk. First we must build up our muscles to lift ourselves up, then we begin to crawl, then we begin to walk and then we begin to run! We don't just come out of the womb ready to run....there are prerequisites and stages to our development and we want our spiritual expansion to be safe and GROUNDED. Too much too soon can be overwhelming.

During meditations and visualizations, AFTER you have spent time with the intention to clear your 7 chakras, you can connect with your HEART and CROWN space directly above your head. Send love to these areas and know that you are deeply loved and fully supported. The raising of divine spiritual energy from the root chakra ~ all the way up the spine ~ to the crown chakra requires PATIENCE, TRUST, FAITH and SELF PURIFICATION. Divine energy will rise at exactly the right time for each soul's journey. Your focused attention on meditation and the clearing of your chakras/energy fields, as well as, your desire to live a life of "good will" will activate your dormant kundalini energy to rise when your system has been adequately prepared. Please do not force the process.