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The 5 Elements and a Yoga Practice to Experience Them
This summer I did a whole series on the chakras in my yoga classes and just finished up another series around the 5 Elements.
In the Yoga & Ayurveda Teacher Training I'm taking, we learned about the 5 elements, and what I learned blew my mind and that's why I created sequences around them for my yoga classes.
Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, says that all of creation is formed from the 5 elements coming together.
The 5 elements are Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether.
Each element has certain qualities, and they also all have a relationship to each other.
Once you understand this, you can use the 5 elements to help balance your body and mind.
Let's start with Earth.
When you think of Earth, what do you think of?
The qualities of earth are solid, heavy, dense, immobile, hard, cool, grounded, stable. In the body think in terms of the dense components such as bones, muscle & fat tissue, joints, ligaments and tendons.
You can connect to the earth element any time you...
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