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Yoga Alliance - Deepen Your Understanding (USYOGA0909A) Closed Captioning/ Transcript Disclaimer Closed captioning and/or transcription is being provided solely for the convenience of our viewers. Yoga Alliance does not review for accuracy any information that appears in a closed caption or transcript. Yoga Alliance makes no representations or warranties, and expressly disclaims any responsibility or liability with respect to, any errors or omissions in, or the accuracy, reliability, timeliness or completeness of, any information that appears in a closed caption or transcript. CHRISTINE MARCELLA: Good afternoon, good morning, good evening wherever you are. Thank you for coming again today for our six and a seven part series of understanding the chakras. As you come and I want to have you take a look at the poll and answer where you are joining us from and let's just get this started. My name is Christine Marcella. And integrative yoga therapist and trauma therapist. I am also the corporate accounts manager here at Yoga Alliance. I will be the moderator today answering your questions and making sure they get queued up. Just for a little bit of housekeeping. As we go through this process you will not be able to answer questions in the chat but the FAQ will be open so please list your questions. If someone has already asked a question that you want to ask, give it a thumbs up so it moves it up into -- higher up in the hierarchy so I know there are a lot of you that when an answer to that question so we can get to that live rather than having it answered later in the text. For today I want to introduce you to this amazing woman. If you have been following along in the -- since the beginning you know that shola is a leader in spirituality and wellness. She is an award-winning and internationally known series of books called, let me do this again. It is energy for life coach.com which is a website. She is the author of Opening To Spirit which is an amazing book. If you have not had a chance to get it, all the links you need for her website, books and courses on coaching for her courses with the chakras and for her Facebook group we are going to give you all that information in the chat. Look at those links and save those for yourself. As we get going today Just enjoy, sit down, grab a cup of tea. This is a seven part series today. Today we are on the six part. I want to introduce you again to this amazing woman. She has profound, profound knowledge to share on this series and I welcome her. CAROLINE SHOLA AREWA: Hey there. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. So we made it to the inner eye. We have literally taken this amazing Journey through the chakras and we have reached at the inner eye. I think the questions from last week most of them were answered. There is one, and went to address. Someone said how much they have been enJoying the series and the information that they wish that I had wore clothes that matched to the colors of the chakras. Which actually is a great idea and just to say I have really been trying to do that. What I found out as I do not have all those colors in my wardrobe. Particularly the yellow, the fire energy. I have plenty of fire energy but I only had one or two things that were a bit of yellow. And a lot of the time it has been so hot I cannot wear those. So Just to let you know that definitely the colors and not Just wearing the clothes that match with the colors of the chakras but also thinking about having them in your environment, those colors, having the colors in your wardrobe, having the colors in your food and Just being comfortable with those different colors does tell you a little something about what is happening in your energy. I did think that was a great comment. And, actually, I am in a past life a fashion designer so the whole thing around color and clothes and things is fully integrated into chakra work. Yoga Alliance - Deepen Your Understanding (USYOGA0909A) So today we are going to be talking about the inner eye. Just to say as well somebody was asking perhaps why I do not use the Sanskrit terms. Obviously in my books I do use the Sanskrit turns. And I break them all down and say what they mean. But I Just think in my general teaching and when I am speaking with people, people's main language is English. So I say brow chakra we are clear. If I say some people will be clear and some not. So I tend to be happy using English. I have a meditation that I might share next week that actually does use all the Sanskrit for the chakras. Because of the vibration of the Sanskrit words it is a beautiful meditation. But something else I want to do today so I might do that with you next week for our finale. Today the inner eye I think of the inner eye color is a blue-black of midnight. It is the place of knowledge and wisdom and it is the place of inner vision. It is also the home of intuition. So intuition is the inner teacher. In tuition. That inner teacher. That is about coming into greater wisdom and knowledge. We come into this greater wisdom and knowledge through the different practices that yoga offers us. We don't come into that knowledge through gaining more information. We come into it through the practice. So it really is from kind of sitting down, closing your eyes, going inside and just viewing this place which once you close your eyes it is a blue black. It is like a blank screen and it is from that space that everything comes into being. We become at this level a cocreator. We work together with the power that is greater than ours to bring everything into being. The throat chakra it's about words that we use. It's about mantras in Egyptian. The words that we use for creation to bring things into being. In the beginning was the word. We sound that vibration, we sound that word. But prior to that we want to be able to vision. We want to be able to see clearly. I want to share a little bit of my own journey and how I have kind of worked with that energy as I have gone through my life and kind of tapped into something that was more than me. Kind of relied on something more than me and had that faith in something more than me. So my own Journey over here in the UK. I always say I grew up in York. Not New York, I grew up in the original York here in the north of England. My childhood was not very ideal. I had a lot of challenges as a child. It caused me from a young to go inside kind of seek something more than from very young. Was there till I was around 17 when I made the decision to move south to London where there was going to be more people that actually look like me. One of the things I was really passionate about as a child had always been clothes and passion and I made clothes for myself and friends since I was about 13. By the time I moved to London I think I was 18 which was a passion business. That business was very much about, you know, change your clothes, getting a new frock, change your life. I did that for 4-5 years and had a very successful fashion business but at some point I felt there must be something more to life. Can you think of a time we thought yourself there must be more to life? What I decided to do was leave everything behind. I told people I was going away for two weeks, two months or two years. I decided to make this Journey. As it happened, this Journey have been for 2 1/2 years. Page 2 of 12 Downloaded on: 13 Sep 2020 6:09 PM Yoga Alliance - Deepen Your Understanding (USYOGA0909A) During that time I was already introduced to yoga so I started yoga before that. I had this small book that I had picked up in it was a tiny little thing that I had bought. I threw it in the bottom of my bag and I went off. At one point I was in India and I had been going into this classroom. In every morning I had got up from early, walked down the hill, climbed over this massive gate and gone and set down from a meditation. This particular morning I had done exactly that. After the meditation I got asked to leave because I was climbing over this huge gate. And so I remembered that I had this book, I had this book in my bag. I went to the book because in this particular book it had some practices in the back. So I went to the book, got the book, climbed up on the roof of where I lived and every morning I would do these practices. Literally going through meditation, mantras and practices. Somebody saw me and asked me what I was doing.