Balance the Scales

Last month, we learned that purity isn’t just a priority, but a natural state of being.

This authentic state is always accessible to us, but can be difficult to acknowledge when we’re cluttered with energetic baggage. Our consciousness can become diluted (and deluded) when our energy flow is blocked.

This month, we continue our cosmic lesson with Libra, the cardinal air sign of beauty and justice, who teaches us how to maintain inner balance.

It’s no coincidence that Spirit has asked me to write this article during a very topsy-turvy week of transformation. Honestly, ever since Jordan and I crossed the border in transit to our new home, I’ve been riddled with massive mood swings, mystic meltdowns, and a serious lack of motivation. Energetically, I'm walking a tightrope between my old home and our new one, and it's exhausting.

And you know what? It’s perfect, just like Virgo taught us. Here’s how I remember that truth,...

What is Pranayama?

Well, in the most simple terms Pranamaya is breathing. More specifically, it is breathing in a particular fashion or with a specific technique to affect the transportation of prana throughout the body.

What Is Prana?

Prana is the ancient yogic term for energy or "life-force." The reason we use specific breathing techniques to stimulate this "life-force" is to create balance in the body. Energy in the human body is much like dark energy/matter in astrophysics. We can sense it, but we don't really know as much as we need to about it. 

What we do know is that when this human "life-force" energy gets blocked, constricted, or flows inefficiently, we end up with chronic pain and illness. Along with a whole...