lol on the grumpy old man part, I feel that sometimes :)
I’m not really familiar with what chakras are supposed to be about, but I’m decently familiar with yoga (200h level training several years ago). For the first 2⁄3 of the training we just focused on movement and anatomy, and the last 1⁄3 was teaching and theory. My teacher told be that there was the stuff called prana that flowed through living beings, and that breath work was all about getting the right prana flow.
I thought that was a bit weird, but the breathing techniques we actually did also had lovely and noticeable affects on my mood/body.
My frame: some woo frameworks came about through X years of experimentation and fiding lots of little tweaks that work, and then the woo framework co-evolved, or came afterwards, as a way to tie all these disjointed bits of accumulated knowledge. So when I go to evaluate something like chakras, I treat the actual theory as secondary to the actual pointers, “how chakras tell me to live my life”.
Now, any given woo framework may or may not have that much useful accumulated tidbits, that’s where we have to try it for ourselves and see if it works. I’ve done enough yoga to be incredibly confident that though prana may not carve reality at the joints or be real, I’m happy to ask a master yogi how to handle my body better.
Hmmmmm, so I guess the thing I wanted to say to you was, when having this chakra discussion with whomever, make sure to ask them, “What are the concrete things chakras tell me to do with my body/mind” and then see if those things have nay effect.
lol on the grumpy old man part, I feel that sometimes :)
I’m not really familiar with what chakras are supposed to be about, but I’m decently familiar with yoga (200h level training several years ago). For the first 2⁄3 of the training we just focused on movement and anatomy, and the last 1⁄3 was teaching and theory. My teacher told be that there was the stuff called prana that flowed through living beings, and that breath work was all about getting the right prana flow.
I thought that was a bit weird, but the breathing techniques we actually did also had lovely and noticeable affects on my mood/body.
My frame: some woo frameworks came about through X years of experimentation and fiding lots of little tweaks that work, and then the woo framework co-evolved, or came afterwards, as a way to tie all these disjointed bits of accumulated knowledge. So when I go to evaluate something like chakras, I treat the actual theory as secondary to the actual pointers, “how chakras tell me to live my life”.
Now, any given woo framework may or may not have that much useful accumulated tidbits, that’s where we have to try it for ourselves and see if it works. I’ve done enough yoga to be incredibly confident that though prana may not carve reality at the joints or be real, I’m happy to ask a master yogi how to handle my body better.
Hmmmmm, so I guess the thing I wanted to say to you was, when having this chakra discussion with whomever, make sure to ask them, “What are the concrete things chakras tell me to do with my body/mind” and then see if those things have nay effect.