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What is beauty and style to the American Yogini? |
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More than skin deep. |
It's the string effect. It's the oneness wonder. Yoga practice is learning through self-experience. Self-experience is self-knowing. We can observe and come to know how everything we touch and everything that touches us is connected--with each other as well as with ourselves-as though strung together like pearls on a necklace. We yearn for confirmation and affirmation of these connections. When we discover that even the products we choose to put on our skin, hair and fingernails, have a relationship to us and us to them.
Ahimsa is the yogic principal of non-harming. And to be sure, cosmetics and clothing fit into this practice. If this is your practice, choose organic and sustainable fibers, recycled designs, natural cosmetics and skin products.
Color can be a powerful yogic tool. The colors of the chakra's can bring us closer to balance when we wear the color of the chakra most out of balance, or weakest within us. For example, if you have been feeling misunderstood when you speak, or unable to speak what you feel needs saying, then you might wear a light blue blouse, scarf, or eye shadow. When done consciously, wearing a light blue color upon your body could be enough to balance the fifth chakra, which is located in the throat. Wearing the chakras color brings your awareness to the balance you naturally seek. Perhaps the aspect you wish to bring closer to your life, you may choose to bring closer to your body in the form of clothing or makeup.
| Color: |
Chakra: |
Out of balance emotion: |
Balanced Emotion: |
| Red |
First Chakra |
Feeling unsafe, or ungrounded |
Feeling safe |
| Orange |
Second Chakra |
Feeling unproductive, or uncreative |
Fertile and creative |
| Yellow |
Third Chakra |
Low self esteem, lack of willpower |
High self esteem and strong will |
| Green |
Fourth Chakra |
Feeling unloved, unloving, unloveable |
Being loving and loved |
| Light Blue |
Fifth Chakra |
Overly talkative, or unable to speak |
Truthfull speech, being understood |
| Dark Blue |
Sixth Chakra |
Lack of intuition and insight |
Deep truthfull seeing |
| Violet |
Seventh Chakra |
Lack of a sense of connection with universe and with others |
Ultimate Bliss |
White is considered to represent the aura: the eighth chakra in the Kundalini tradition. This is because it contains all the colors of all the other chakras. If you are feeling "unseen" or invisible to others, you may try wearing white. It is thought that wearing white will brighten your aura. White is often the color worn to special kirtans, satsangs and many occasions of celebration and joy. Joyous: just as a body balanced in all its chakras would be.
Jewelry also plays a part. There are many yogis' who grow sensitive to the vibrational qualities of stones and minerals, and feel their own energy come into balance and form in the presence of certain stones.
The Three Gunas
In addition to this, jewelry can magnify 'rajasic" energy. There are three types of energies or "gunas" we possess: rajasic (this is regal, high, sometimes nervous, needed to balance sluggishness) tamasic (this is sluggish and slow, but needed to balance too much nervousness) and sattvic (from the root word "sat" or "truth", sattva gunas is the energetic place of truth where we are attached to neither one extreme or the other). We usually enter a yoga practice session a bit tamasic or a bit rajasic, and often we can oberserve that we complete it closer if not in sattva gunnas!
SO: We report that conscious choice of clothing, and self-celebratory adornment can be for some, a continuation of the practice of constant and vigilant awareness of which "gunnas" we are in. For just as on the mat, it is in the simple act of watching and allowing that we shift and grow. As we connect the pearls of this practice to the pearls within all of our lives, the whole world can link with us making us all just one long unending rope of pure white pearls.
Pearls are really "IN" this season.
Namaste.
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"This has been a life altering experience. I know that I can call upon
Mary to help find the resources to live a happy and healthy life."
Mary Ann Neligan
Singapore
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