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Even if the weather had been horrible, with downpours of rain or maybe even lightning or threat of hurricane, Rosa was still going to be holding class on the beach that week. In fact, she was almost a little disappointed that the weather wasn't inclement, because she was really looking forward to potentially hearing certain annoyingly chatty students complain about being indoors then.

But alas. Still pretty hot, but still pretty good for some yoga on the beach.

"Today," she started, "we're moving on to the second chakra to focus on, the svadhishthana chakra, or the sacral chakra, which is said to be the energy source for prana ‘vyana, or the energy of circulation. It's tied in with the element of water and the color orange. Svadishthana basically means 'dwelling place of the Self,' so this chakra aligns with things like sexuality, desires," annoyed, pointed pause? Annoyed, pointed pause. No reason, "and creativity, and it's located in the lower abdomen below the navel. When it's open, it's said that you're more likely to feel creative and open with your wants and desires and personal relationships. When it's blocked, people tend to be overly sensitive or irritable, prone to depression or anger.

"But anyway," she said, "that's the idea behind it, so let's get to some asana that are said to help balance this sacral chakra to leave to you being more emotionally balanced as a person, but first, our warm up, and then we'll get into some poses to work on today."

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Sacral, water-y, or orange!

Nell Ingram

Gladiolus Amicitia

Stick with or follow Rosa along with the classic sun salutation, or do your own thing to warm up, Rosa does not care.

Gladio had to admit, he sort of snorted a bit once Rosa got to talking about what chakra they'd be learning about today, and that annoyed, pointed pause did not pass his notice. But he was determined to focus on his yoga and the meditative aspects of it today, and he was going to start doing that by putting in some damn good sun salutations.

The focused asana for your sacral chakra this week involve ones like the hero pose, the cat-cow, a low lunge and the half splits. But you an also give goddess pose a try, the frog pose, or maybe even few others. There's a few for this one, so plenty to work with.

Nell was amused with the hero and goddess poses, but found she really enjoyed the cat-cow one.

Edited 2023-07-13 11:32 (UTC)

Honestly, Gladio was just disappointed that the hero pose wasn't more exciting. Thank goodness he still had his warrior poses to get him through with very cool and fitting yoga poses for his personality.

And, you know, the fact that the eagle pose was so challenging was more than enough for him, but yeah, not as heroic a pose as he was hoping it would be.

Bookending with a few more sun salutations is recommended for balance, but, again, Rosa's not going to care if you do something else, it's your chakras that are at risk here, not hers.

Honestly, after balancing this chakra might be one of the better times to engage in that potential suicide mission...

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