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Watkins Wisdom: Cate Montana

Posted on January 16, 2015
by Vicky Hartley

Watkins author, Cate Montana, answers some of our questions in the first installment of the Watkins Wisdom Speaks Series. Cate Montana is the author of Unearthing Venus: My Search for the Woman Within, also available in e-book, and co-author of GhettoPhysics: Redefining the Game…

Rebalance your Solar Plexus Chakra

Posted on July 28, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

Today in our guide to Working with your Chakras the focus is on your solar plexus chakra, home of your sense of self and your digestive fire. If you are feeling short of stamina and drive, try Swami Saradananda’s juice fast, designed to rebalance the…

Working with your Chakras

Posted on July 28, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

Our chakras (energy centres of the subtle body) play a vital role in every aspect of life, including health, career and relationships. Here, Swami Saradananda, world-renowned expert in yoga and spiritual development and author of The Essential Guide to Chakras, gives some practical suggestions…

Crown Chakra meditation to connect with Divine Light

Posted on July 13, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

Today, the focus is on the highest of the chakras – the crown chakra. Swami Saradananda, author of The Essential Guide to Chakras, describes a beautiful meditation on Divine Light, that will fill you with a sense of liberation, completeness and spiritual connection. What is…

Brow Chakra Meditation to connect with your ‘third eye’

Posted on July 10, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

In today's part of our guide to Working with your Chakras, Swami Saradananda introduces the brow or “third eye” chakra, the chakra most identified with your mind and personality. She offers a meditation that you can use to reinforce the energy of this chakra whenever…

Connect with your Throat Chakra through Journaling

Posted on July 5, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

Your fifth chakra – the throat chakra – is the chakra of communication and creativity. Today Swami Saradananda, author of The Essential Guide to Chakras has 10 questions for you to explore in your journal, to help you understand how you can use this chakra’s…

Rebalance the Energy of your Heart Chakra

Posted on July 3, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

The heart chakra is the one to focus on if you want to form or maintain a loving partnership, or if you need to let go of stress and negativity. Swami Saradananda, author of The Essential Guide to Chakras, explains all about the heart chakra…

Treating Depression with Mindfulness Meditation

Posted on June 27, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

How Mindfulness Techniques Can Help You Deal with Depression 'By accepting rather than resisting unpleasant feelings, we may find that they go away by themselves' Mindfulness may seem like a new therapy fad but in fact its origins lie in Buddhist teaching. Psychologist…

The Science Behind Mindfulness

Posted on June 26, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

by Sarah Silverton Mindfulness is not only a positive change of mind-set, it can actually change the shape of our brains. Neuroscience research over recent years has led to understanding that the human brain can change in both structure and activity (known as neuroplasticity) and…

Working with your Root Chakra

Posted on May 28, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

Today Swami Saradananda, author of The Essential Guide to Chakras takes a look at the first of your major chakras – the root chakra – and suggests an exercise that will help you reconnect with its energy. What is the root chakra? The root (muladhara)…

A Sacral Chakra Visualization Exercise – picture your mind as a lake

Posted on May 2, 2014
by Vicky Hartley

Swami Saradananda, author of The Essential Guide to Chakras, has some great suggestions for getting the energy flowing freely through your chakras, including today’s visualization for your second chakra – the sacral chakra. But first, here’s an overview of what this chakra does for you.…

The Healing Power of Mandalas

Posted on November 11, 2013
by Vicky Hartley
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From the profound depths of the tranquility of mandala meditation emerge insights that help us tap into and develop our innate healing power Mandalas most often take the form of a circle - a shape that represents the self, the Earth, the Sun, the cosmos…