Open Yourself to Love: Understanding the Heart Chakra & How to Unlock Its Power

We welcome you to this free community event to learn how to open your heart physically, energetically, and emotionally. In this event, we will guide you through various yoga poses, breathing techniques, meditations, and other exercises to explore the essence of the heart chakra and how to unravel its powerful energy to enrich your life. This event is open to everyone, regardless of your yoga experience level. We will be creating a safe, loving space to explore together how to show up in the world with an open, loving, and discerning heart towards ourselves and others, particularly by opening our hearts to new people and new experiences with compassion, love, and understanding.

During this event we will:

-Learn practical tools to lower stress, increase happiness, and heal our hearts

-Learn how to keep the heart open and mind present while still feeling safe

-Learn how to transmute anger, aggression and fear into love

-Experience receiving yourself and being received by others

We will also be engaging in...

-Yoga asanas to open the physical heart and free energy in the heart chakra

-Meditation and visualization techniques to calm the mind to better listen to your heart's wisdom

-Exercises to feel into the universal heart that we all share

The heart chakra, or Anahata in its original Sanskrit name, colors our life with compassion, love, and beauty. Our heart chakra is driven by the principles of transformation and integration, it is our fourth energy center and is said to bridge earthly and spiritual aspirations.

Most of us have energetic blocks and imbalances as well as energy-sabotaging habits that prevent us from accessing our full vitality, which leads us to feel exhausted, scattered, dull… and even ill. Maybe you have been hurt in the past by parents, siblings, classmates, or lovers. It’s impossible to avoid situations where someone may try to hurt you. But you get to choose what to do with that hurt. Some people might try to hurt the other person back. Yet, that is not living from a place of Anahata. The person who inflicts pain on others is coming from a place of fear, ignorance or hatred, all of which represent a closed heart chakra.

When you encounter feelings of hurt from your past or present, you can choose to feel them fully and let them go or hold onto them. By letting them go, you’re able to open your heart to new people and new experiences with compassion, love, and understanding. Holding onto hurt harbors negative feelings and energy and cuts you off from opportunities to love. Letting go is as easy as making a choice. Your mind and your ego may tell you otherwise, but we promise you it’s as simple as choosing to let go and move on. We hope you can join us for this event, as we learn to open our hearts, embrace our bodies and let go of any hurt.