How are you feeling these days? Are things moving along, or are you feeling kinda stuck or stymied? I feel like every week is one long back-and-forth between these energies. So I’m doing my best to hold onto the “OM” inside like a zip line and just let it ride. 

This past weekend I found myself cleaning out files and drawers and getting things in order for no particular reason. Then I remembered something a wise woman said to me at a gathering I was at several years ago. After I told her I was feeling stuck but cleaned out the garage, she said,

“Move the material, and the spirit will follow.”

And just like that I knew what she meant! Energy begets energy, and overcoming inertia in one area can affect the others. 

I realized it was happening in the reverse. I know my Life is moving in a certain direction, but I don’t know what that looks like in the material world yet. So what was I doing with the files and drawers? I was preparing the way. Whatever is mine to do next will ...

Do you have a favorite song to play in the car when the weather is beautiful?  Just the other evening it was so lovely out that it my trip home from HEB a delight.  I was rockin' the 'burbs with windows down, sunroof open, and blaring Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion. I was transported back to my teen years, also rockin' Aerosmith in the 'burbs, but in my mom's big 1974 Chevy Caprice Classic convertible. It was AWESOME.

But now I'm a yoga teacher instead of a teen, so I hear things differently.  I realized this time that "sweet emotion" is a perfect phrase for chakra 2!  Svadyaya is the Sanskrit word for the second chakra, and it's where we can connect to our emotional selves as well as the pleasure principle.  Being able to delight in life and get information from your emotions is what svadhisthana is all about!

I don't know if this is what Aerosmith had in mind, but I think they captured it perfectly. 

Emotions are such an integral part of our lives, yet naming them and tuning i...