The moon is as part of our life as water is. The question is how do we enhance our health and wellbeing by connecting to the Moon cycles?

The moon cycles are connected to feminine lunar energy of production and manifesting.

Each 14-day moon cycle (full moon and new moon) affects and guides our mood and mental health – have you noticed how you feel during full moon and new moon cycles?

The gravity of the moon pulls at the earth, causing rice and fall in sea levels known as tides and the cycle slows down the Earth’s rotation.

‘The Moon affects Earth in several ways. The first and most obvious is through the provision of moonlight, with a full Moon coming around every 29.5 days, and a new Moon following 14.8 days after that. Then there’s the Moon’s gravitational pull, which creates the ocean tides that rise and fall every 12.4 hours. The height of those tides also follows roughly two-week cycles – the 14.8 day “spring-neap cycle”, which...

 The Fifth chakra:

• Name: Visuddha, Kanth Padma, Shodash Dala
• Meaning: Pure, Throat Lotus, sixteen petals
• Location: Neck Region, Throat
• Colour: Smoky Purple
• Element: Akasha
• Work organs: Mouth, Vocal Cords
• Predominant Sense & Organ: Ears and Hearing
• Ruling Planet: Jupiter
• Plane: Human Plane (where the great spiritual darkness ends)
• Air (Vayu, prana): Udana, the air that dwells in the throat and head region that carries air up through the head aiding in the production of sound.

Visuddhi or Vishuddha, essentially means filter. If your Visuddhi is active, it filters everything. Poisons can enter you in many ways – a wrong thought, emotion, idea, energy, or impulse can poison your life.

The spoken words from the throat chakra. It gives expression to the emotions from the heart.  Words spoken from a balanced throat chakra penetrates the heart of the listener.  The internal and external space changes with the vibration of the spoken word.  The emotions...

The heart chakra (4th Chakra).  It is centre of love for the self and other.  It is associated with unconditional love, compassion, and joy. Each chakra has is associated with sound and colour.  It is the connecting centre between the lower three chakras and upper three chakras).

The Fourth chakra:

• Name: Anahata, Hritapankaja
• Meaning: Unstruck, Heart Lotus,
• Location: The Heart region of the vertebral column, the cardiac plexus
• Colour: colourless, gray or smokey green
• Element: air
• Body Associations: Hands, Vayu (Prana) the breath – rich in life giving negative ions dwelling in the chest region.
• Predominant sense & Organ: Touch, skin
• Ruling Planet: Venus
• Mental: Balanced, living in the moment with happiness
• Behavioural pattern: Rythmic, graceful, wise, respectul
• Sound: Kang, Khang, Gang, Ghang, Yong, Cang, Chang,Jang,
• Plane: The plane of balance (Maha Loka)

The upper chakra and lower chakra connection embodies the grounding and stabilising nature of...

The Third chakra

• Name: Manipura, manipurak, nabhi
• Meaning: City of Jewels/gems
• Location: The part of the vertebral column that corresponds to the navel region
• Colour: Gold
• Element: Fire (red/rising sun)
• Food: carbohydrates, starch
• Body Associations: Feet and legs, digestive system, liver, muscles
• Predominant sense & Organ: Sight & Eyes
• Ruling Planet: Sun (masculine)
• Mental: self-worth
• Behavioural pattern: Like a snake
• Sound: Ram
• Plane: The Celestial Plane

The solar plexus/Manipura chakra is the third chakra, the energy centre of the body, it is found four finger breaths above the navel area, where it meets the lower and upper triangles.     The Manipura chakra is the seat of self-confidence and power, it gives energy, dynamism, and achievement.  The energy of Manipura chakra is pride, ego and the ability to control.

The chakra is the centre of gravity for transformation and healing. It has 72,000 nadis (channels of energy that release vital energy...

A Journey of Chakras

Chakra One - Muladhara

Colours make our life and connect close to our emotions.  How do you see colours:

• Are they integral part of your life
• Does your wardrobe contain
  • clothes of all the colours
  • Black and white
  • Pastel colours
  • Muted colours

• Do you rely on moods to help you decide what colour to wear?
• Does colour inform your day
• How do you feel when you wear certain colours?
• Do you see colour connected to your emotions
• Do you get challenged emotionally and intellectually when you see an array of colours

Lots of questions, I know… But it’s when you reflect and ask these questions that you begin to understand yourself and the power of colour.

In my personal life, I went from wearing bright colours for years to wearing just black, white and grey.  This transition was unconscious responding to my work in the banking environment.  My mood became sombre and subdued.  When I become ill due to stress and took some time off to...