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Closed Captions (PDF) Yoga Alliance - Deepen Your Understanding (USYOGA1609A) 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. SHARON CYRUS: " Membership friends and yoga community. Thank you for joining us again for the seven part series about understanding chakras. Today we will be focusing on the crown chakra. Please take time to fill out the survey on your screen. We would love to know where you are joining us from today. My name is Sharon Cyrus I am a member support representative for Yoga Alliance. I am going to introduce Caroline shola Arewa. She is a leading figure in the role of spirituality and wellness. She has been delivering her award-winning work internationally for over 30 years. She is the author of five books. Today she trains and mentors wellness professionals all over the world. Thank you so much for joining us Shola. SHOLA AREWA: I'm trying to make sure I do not get lots of... Let me get myself back. There we go. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I actually feel as if I have got to final session of one of my courses that are in person. We did reach the crown chakra. All the way to the crown chakra. I'm going to read something to you. It is actually one of the first things that you will find an opening to spirit. One of the first things that I have. It is called Spiritual Body. In your body... Enriched by seven continents, sorry encircled by seven continents. The rivers are there too. The seas, the mountains and the plains the gods of the fields profits to be seen in it. Monks, places of pilgrimage and the deities presiding over them. The stars are there. And the planets. In the sun together with the moon. There too are the two cosmic forces. That which destroys and that which creates. And all the elements ether, air, fire yes in your body are all things that exist in the three worlds. All performing their prescribed functions around Mount (unknown term). He alone who knows this is said to be a true yogi. And this comes. He who knows this is said to be a true yogi. When I came across that passage I felt as if I think it is about 400-3300 something pages I feel that quote directs us inside. It tells us everything we have been exploring over these seven weeks, the different things we seek, the questions that we have. All of those things are found inside. For me it was powerful to find that quote. It talked about Miru being the mountain that is in Tanzania which is where humans first took their kind of first steps so it sums up so much. I'm choosing to read it now as we reach the crown chakra. One of the things I was taught about the ground in relation to all the other chakras was that really you cannot speak of the crown chakra. You cannot speak the crown chakra. The reason for that is the crown chakra is the place of oneness. It is existence, knowledge and bliss. It is a place where the created, that's you, and the creator whatever we refer to as our Creator whether we call that God or the goddess or whatever names we have that creates a force where you and the creative force become one. So I think of it as sitting on the lap of the goddess. Sitting on the lap of the Goddess. So when we work with the creator, there is nothing to say. There is just oneness in the crown chakra is really about that oneness. It is an energy, as we go over the others actually it's an energy to know, to come to a place of knowledge, knowing, awareness, understanding, connection of those things. That is where the real information about the crown chakra is. I hope that is making sense. If you think about it the crown is really that space where everything trickles down. From here is that place of oneness and at the inner eye we have the two pedals that symbolize duality. This is a Yoga Alliance - Deepen Your Understanding (USYOGA1609A) place of oneness that we cannot really speak up. Once we begin to speak at the crown chakra. Then really what is happening is we are stepping down to the inner I where there is a duality. Where I can speak to you. Where I can speak with you. Where we can exchange. Where we can connect. It takes duality for that. Otherwise, there is just oneness. Just oneness. There is no separation. Just really have that understanding of that. One of the other things I was taught is if you want someone to understand something, let's say for example that I want you to understand the taste of honey. Assuming you are not begin and if you are then you can say the taste of agave of course. If I want you to have an understanding of how honey really taste, I could say that it tastes really sweet, it's a little bit sticky. It comes in all different colors and I could start trying to describe it to you and you can see already I'm not doing too well actually describing honey. Instead what I would do is say here have this little taste. Have this little taste of honey, have this little taste of agave. And then you have your own experience of that. When it comes to talk was. All the chakras, that's what we need to do. We need to develop a daily spiritual practice for ourselves. This is not about for students. This is really about for you so that you can taste that honey so you can start to develop an understanding, awareness and taste of the energy and the chakras. I sat down and entered this deep place of meditation and I started just spontaneously chanting and it wasn't a gent I knew, I just started spontaneously chanting and something just moved right through me. And all of a sudden I kind of had this experience of real one, so what happened was there was no longer an earth underneath me or water, the sun or the moon, all of a sudden I experienced it all is one, so my body kind of dispersed and there was no boundary, no physical body anymore and I was in this place of just vibrating with this powerful energy and these words, and sounds moving right through me and I just sat in this place and just gently, gently, gently. -- Chanted, chanted and just been at one with those elements. Maybe at that moment I would consider it a peak experience but also think of it is kind of connecting with my true and since -- essence in nature. I also think it is the reason why sometimes maybe when we aren't feeling good, feeling a little bit down you want to get out of the four walls and we tend to go to nature. We tend to want to go to the ocean, might want to go climbing or just sit in the park. You want to connect with nature because it gives us the potential to know our nature. And for me this is the kind of energy, see energy of the crown chakra and space for not doing but just being. Just being and so in terms of some characteristics around the crown – excuse me – so the colors of the crown are sometimes kind of disputed. So sometimes people will talk of the crown as purple, or they will talk of it as white, or will talk about it as gold, so I have something that I just colored and I just used all of those colors. And it is also the thousand, thousand petaled lotus so if you think we have come from the four petals and we've gone up, and we've gone up and we've gone up, too is a multiple of everything that is below and now we have come to the place of infinity, so it is not that someone said and counted 1000 petals but that is infinite, the 1000 represents infinity of the chronic. The sound is a om sound from the crown chakra. I was going to do a beautiful practice. I can share the things I wanted to share with you, so let us do a practice, a powerful practice for the crown, so create a solid base. Page 2 of 10 Downloaded on: 30 Sep 2020 8:09 PM Yoga Alliance - Deepen Your Understanding (USYOGA1609A) So you might want to sit with your legs – I like to have mine crossed. When we sit with her legs crossed it causes the root chakra to connect and really be on the base, not on our feet, but another root chakra and then just elevate your spine. Elevate your spine. And the shoulders just drop and relax. I am going to do a practice which is called chakra rotation and I actually put together a couple of different things that come from the contract tradition and we will work with the energy from the root going up the front of the body to the crown and back down to the root and I'm actually going to use Sanskrit terms for their chakras because it has a different vibration and I am going to call the energy of each of the chakras so we are going to do several rounds.
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