Body Weight Exercises

Section 5.2 Your Throat

I’m a fan of cocktails, and I love the term “express the garnish” where you cut a tiny, beautiful piece of citrus rind, and twist it or squish it juuusst right so that it sprays out an oily aromatic plume of itself that gets all over your fingers and your drink. Even if you throw out the rind afterwards, you can tell it was there. It’s left its mark.

Section 5.1 Your Throat

We all want to feel like there’s somewhere in this world we belong. Whenever we find something we like that makes our soul happy, or go somewhere where we fit in just right, we can’t help but want to talk about it, share it, everywhere all the time, and learn all we can about it. To absorb it and make it look like a part of ourselves.

Section 4.3 Your Heart

Sometimes it feels like our whole world fits in the circle of our arms. We hunch over to type on the computer. We lean over a table to work on a hard project. We huddle over a warm cup of coffee in the morning.

Section 3.4 Your Solar Plexus

As your lower Root, Sacral Plexus, and Solar Plexus Chakras find balance, you build up some trust. You get a feel for what your body is capable of, what hurts it, and what may need extra attention. But through the endless repetition of physical therapy stretches you’re also teaching your body to trust you back.

Section 3.3 Your Solar Plexus

It’s common that pain symptoms don’t present where the original injury is. And it’s also common to forget to take care of the not-squeaky wheels in life.

Section 3.2 Your Solar Plexus

Balance is a funny thing. We want it. We know we need it. But it’s ridiculously hard to achieve that perfect middle where we’re not teetering into court-ordered-anger-management territory or severe depression.

Section 3.1 Your Solar Plexus

A huge part of our self esteem can get wrapped up in our appearance. What we think other people see in us. Our six-pack goals and photo shoots with perfect lighting.

Section 2.4 Your Sacral Chakra

Our hands, like our feet, are another one of those overworked, overlooked appendages that get no attention until they start screaming at us when they’re injured. And then we bemoan our plight while we hobble around on crutches or curse our bandaged unusable finger while it heals.

Section 2.3 Your Sacral Chakra

The process of awakening each of your chakras, slowly, …and methodically, …is an opportunity to listen to your own body, not anything else. Breathe. What do you feel?

Section 2.2 Your Sacral Chakra

When we have difficulty expressing or admitting our feelings, or can’t attain the pleasure we think we want, we end up holding on to unprocessed anger. We clench our legs together so no one will see our vulnerability.