What is Shakti Yoga?

The chakra & nadi system and our energy bodies (also known as the electromagnetic energy field or aura) need regular care and attention, just as much as our bodies, hearts & minds. 

Our charka systems, radiating inside and outside our bodies, can also be interpreted as a physical energy field, an emotional energy field, a mental energy field and an etheric energy field. 

So by using our breath, postures and flowing movements, with awareness of the three layers of ourselves (inner subtle body, physical body & outer subtle body) we can care for our physical, emotional, mental and etheric/energy selves, our inner strength, our spark and spirit.

We practice embodying all the parts of the cyclic nature of Shakti, within each breath and within our movements and postures as each movement, and how this relates to the cyclic nature of everything

• Shakti's cyclic nature can be seen and felt really clearly in:
• archetypes of the feminine - maiden, mother, priestess, crone;
• lunar cycles - dark, new- waxing, full and waning;
• cycles of the sun - from winter solstice, through spring and summer, autumn and back to winter; the gunas - tamas, rajas and satva; and
• life cycles plants and creatures

We can also see and feel the different qualities of Shakti in our chakras and in the elements - earth and water, fire, air and spirit.

We always have our chakras with us and our relationship with the elements is primal and present in our environment, so using visualisation to tap into our chakras and our bone-deep, soul-deep knowing of the elements one of the key ways we develop a conscious relationship with Shakti.