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chakra breathing meditation

The Chakra Breathing Meditation is one of my all-time favorite meditations. 

By breathing deeply and fairly quickly into the chakras, we charge the segments with energy while we move and pulsate that part of the body. This promotes a vertical connection between all the chakras, and offers a taste of inner wholeness as energy flows more easily up and down the spine.

Phase 1: Breathe into the chakras, one by one, starting with the first at the sex center, swinging the pelvis in rhythm with the breath. Move up to the next chakra each time the music moves up a tone, and a bell rings.

While breathing into the chakras:
1) visualize the chakra filling with breath and emptying—pulsating.
2) vibrate a soft sound inside the chakra as you breathe out.
3) breathe, if you can, in the same rhythm as the background music.
4) swing your pelvis backwards with the in-breath, and forwards with the out-breath, letting hands and arms move loosely and rhythmically to support the breathing.

Upon reaching the 7th chakra at the crown, continue breathing there until you hear three bells, at which point you gently breathe down through the chakras until you end again at the first chakra.

This 15-minute breathing cycle is repeated a total of 3 times, followed by a silent stage of 15 minutes, either sitting or lying down, witnessing and resting in the energy.