You Choose- Anger or Inspiration?

After listening to the news, I felt the world's weight on me, so I did what always helps: breathwork, yoga, and walking to shift my energy.

When I saw the crocuses peaking, I stopped in my tracks. I honored the amount of energy this beautiful blossom took to rise and reach its full potential.

This was the news I needed to hear—the crocuses are blooming!

These crocuses will return to the earth within days, transmuting their energy into something else. Energy never dies; it just gets transmuted.

I find observing energy and its complexity fascinating. Rajas' springtime energy is upward-moving, sprouting, expanding, passionate, and incredibly exciting—like a wave.

In the yoga tradition, energy constantly moves through three different phases called the 3 Gunas: rajas, tamas, and sattva energy.

Rajas is upward moving energy, typically described as passionate, aggressive, angry, frustrated, and attached. However, everything has a flip side; rajas can have a positive effect of inspiration, like spring.

Tamas's energy is still and inert. It is described as dark, heavy, ignorant, and often lazy. But like winter, it is also still and dormant; rest is necessary for growth.

Sattvic energy is illumination, knowledge, and purity. We all want to feel sattvic, but can easily become attached to how good it feels and become rajasic with our sattva energy! It's a slippery slope.

Summer energy of blooming is sattvic- and don't we always want to bloom?

According to Chinese medicine, the spring rajas is the Wood energy rising, and expresses emotionally as inspired and kind when balanced and angry and frustrated when imbalanced. This wood energy runs through the liver and gallbladder.

Emotions are energy and determine our well being. Balanced emotional energy is health; imbalanced emotions over long periods creates disease.

The spring is the easiest time to bring our rajasic energy into balance and harmony. Harmony is the virtue of balanced liver chi.

This coming Wellness Weekend, with our 300-hour teacher trainees and Master's Path yogis, will balance the energy that runs our liver and gallbladder through Kundalini practices in the morning, followed by a healthy and delicious vegan lunch (included!).

The afternoon's Meridian Flow workshop will focus on balancing liver energy through Chigong and yogic sequences, which stimulate the liver and gallbladder meridians and create a harmonious chi flow.

Come learn how to master your energy and shift anger and frustration into inspiration.

From my heart to yours~

Namaste,

Maggie