Friday, 22 June 2012

Kundalini Dance Workshops Madrid


Tribal Soul 
Saturday, July 7th, from 10 am to 2 pm.  
A journey through the lower triangle of chakras with Kundalini Dance.  If you want to teach a starving nation how to meditate, first their basic needs must be met.  In our search for Awareness and Awakening of our consciousness, we must first travel through our bodies and undo all of the energy blocks that have been building up for years.  Through Dance, Kundalini Kriyas, Active Meditation and Chanting, we will focus on the following:


- Connection to the Family / The Tribe
- Connection to the Earth and reality
- Creativity, healing, regeneration, personal power
- Ccommitment, optimism, energy
- We will also learn a Celestial Communication and a Mantric Choreography



Sat Kar Tar: A Gateway to the Heart
Saturday, 28th of July, from 10 am - 2 pm
The objective of this workshop is to work our Heart Center.  We will work on opening up our hearts to bring unconditional love into our lives.  When energy flows in the Anahata chakra, we open up our hearts like a lotus flower and we begin to feel and experiment true love.  We will work on the following through Dance, Kundalini Kriyas, Meditation and Chanting:


- Increase our self-esteem
- Love and appreciate who we are
- Remove the barriers which we have placed around our hearts, barriers which block our possibility to accept and experiment true love.
- Heal the wounds of our hearts
- Approach life with an open heart
- Attract hapiness and love.
We will also learn a Celestial Communication and a Mantric Choreography.


The price for each workshop is 40 euros, if signed up for both workshops the total cost will be 70 euros.  To sign up please contact Ana Otero:
anaoterodance@gmail.com
*34 633038327

Sunday, 8 April 2012


Balancing Your 2nd Chakra




The Navel Chakra is located just below the navel, about 2-3 fingers. It is also known as the Sacral, or Second Chakra. In Martial Arts, it is called the “Hara”. It represents your sexuality, creativity, self esteem, pleasures and frustrations.
Its Chakra color is orange. The Second Chakra governs life lessons involving blaming and guilt, manifesting, money and prosperity, sex, power, control, and it is the base of your creativity and sense of morality. Information stored in the Second Chakra involves feelings of duality, personal magnetism, your patterns of control, your sociability, and emotions and feelings. An imbalance in the Second Chakra may be experienced as an eating disorder, drug or alcohol addiction, depression, and intimacy issues, and may contribute to issues of impotence and frigidity...


Balancing Your 2nd Chakra: The Svadisthana (Sexual/Spleen) chakra is situated at the base of your lumbar spine, halfway between your navel and pubic bone. The element associated with this chakra is water. Water’s power is fluid, yet unyielding - the power to overcome obstacles and act with integrity. This is your Seat of Ch’i, Dantiem, your personal will power to be and confidence to stand on your own two feet. The Sanskrit word Svadisthana (2nd chakra) can be translated as “Primordial Abode.”
Your 2nd chakra is your center of co-creation and beauty, relationships, children, sensuality, sexuality, purification and robust health. A balanced and healthy 2nd chakra blends male and female energies to create material abundance and manifestation through co-creation, and relationship with natural forces which serve the intentions of the Divine Source.
When your 2nd chakra is in  balance you trust the natural flow of life, giving and receiving in equal measure without difficulty. You are relaxed, calm and at ease with your life. You feel robust energy, physical power, stamina and aliveness; you shine like a star! You surrender to the process of sharing and your relationships are harmonious and deeply connected. Openness of your heart, mind and body ensure enjoyment of your life experience. You express sensuality and sexuality in a fluid and unified way.


A balanced and healthy 2nd Chakra (Svadhisthana - Sexual/Spleen) ensures a strong immune system and an inherent sense of physical power, health and well-being, including financial health.
CHAKRA BALANCING Keywords: fluidity, giving and receiving love, communion, co-creation, pro-creation, endurance, self confidence, patience
CHAKRA BALANCING BODY PARTS: Female reproductive organs, spleen, bladder, adrenals, kidneys, large intestines, immune system
Related physical imbalance for the 2nd chakra, include: lumbar tension, chronic lower back pain, toxic and infectious conditions, kidney and bladder infections, immune disorders, chronic fatigue, impotence, frigidity, irritable bowel, Crohns, cancer and diabetes, addictions of all kinds.
Emotional stagnation or blockage at your 2nd chakra (Svadhisthana - Spleen/Sex)emits an energy frequency that resonates with feeling rejected and attracts toxic environmental conditions (both internal and external) that trigger states of anxiety, fear and worry. You may be locked into power struggles with  yourself or others, and experience issues of rejection and victimization, jealousy and mistrust, as well as the need for protection are often prevalent.
You may experience 2nd chakra imbalance as an inability to give or receive, and find it difficult to surrender to “what is” and struggle with universal laws. You may be locked into the purely physical expression of your sensuality and sexuality. You may try to control situations and emotions in relationships which may lead to repression of your needs and healthy self-expression of your truth. This is where your gun holster sits; you will either decide to take aim and fire or put your guns away for peaceful co-existence.
AROMATHERAPY FOR CHAKRA BALANCING: Promote balance and healing for your Second Chakra by inhaling a pure essential oil or blend that is sweet, sensual and restorative. Aromas like Ylang Ylang, Rose, Petitgrain, Patchouli and Helichrysum are all good choices.
UNIVERSAL ESSENTIAL OILS for nourishing and balancing the 7 Major chakras, include: Lavender and the Holy Oils - Frankincense, Myrrh, Sandalwood and Spikenard.
CRYSTALS AND HEALING GEMSTONES for chakra balancing your 2nd chakra:  Rose quartz, Carnelian, Coral, Agate
Focus your awareness at the 2nd chakra (Svadisthana or Sexual/Spleen), your vital Co-creative center, located at the base of your lumbar spine, halfway between your navel and pubic bone.
CHAKRA BALANCING MANTRA AFFIRMATION Recite this Mantra six times aloud as you continue to focus your awareness at your 2nd Chakra. Remember to inhale and exhale fully as you recite the mantra:

I trust and honor myself, I trust and honor life, I am willing to feel and express my truth


Recite this same mantra silently six times within yourself as you continue to focus your awareness at your 2nd Chakra. Remember to inhale and exhale fully as you recite the mantra.


Wednesday, 25 January 2012

5 Tibetan Rites: Exercises for Healing, Rejuvenation and Longevity

I would like to share an exercise program which I started seriousliy about a year ago when I was living in Dubai.  Teaching Creative Movement to children in different schools, Yoga and Dance to adults and being a single mum meant I had very little time to myself.  When you teach yoga, although you are demonstraiting and actually doing the poses for your students, you aren´t PRESENT in the poses, you are a teacher making sure everyone has the proper posture and breath and also correcting.  So I really had to find time for myself first thing in the morning so I could tune in physically and mentally.  I started to practise the 5 Tibetan Rites regularly every day.  AFter a week, everyone commented on my sprkling eyes and on my skin, and after 2 weeks I couldn´t believe my energy level and physical body strength.  I continue to practise the 5 Tibetan Rites and I teach these in my Yoga classes as well.  

In 1985 a book called The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth written by Peter Kelder was published which for the first time fully described an exercise program for "youthing". This is an exercise program used by Tibetan monks to live long, vibrant and healthy lives. In fact, this book states that many have lived longer than most can imagine by following the program often called the "Five Tibetan Rites". The Tibetans claim that these exercises activate and stimulate the seven key chakras that in turn stimulate all the glands of the endocrine system. The endocrine system is responsible for the body's overall functioning and aging process. This means that the Five Rites will affect the functioning of all your organs and systems, including the physical and energetic systems and that includes the aging process. The man who brought these Five Rights out of Tibet stated that "performing the Five Rites stimulates the circulation of essential life energy throughout the body".

Some benefits of the "Five Tibetan Rites"  include the following: looking much younger; sleeping soundly; waking up feeling refreshed and energetic; release from serious medical problems including difficulties with spines; relief from problems with joints; release from pain; better memory; arthritis relief; weight loss; improved vision; youthing instead of aging; greatly improved physical strength, endurance and vigor; improved emotional and mental health; enhanced sense of well being and harmony; and very high overall energy.

Chakra is an Indian Sanskrit word that translates to mean "Wheel of Spinning Energy". Chakras are spinning wheels or vortexes of energy of different colours that perform many functions connecting our energy fields, bodies and the Cosmic Energy Field. Chakras are powerful electrical and magnetic fields. Chakras govern the endocrine system that in turn regulates all of the body's functions including the ageing process. Energy flows from the Universal Energy Field through the chakras into the energy systems within our bodies, including the Meridian System.



The major chakras are located at the base of the spine (Root Chakra), at the navel (Sacral Chakra), in the solar plexus (Solar Plexus Chakra), within your heart (Heart Chakra), within the throat (Throat Chakra), at the center of your forehead (Brow or Third Eye Chakra), and at the top of your head (Crown Chakra). The aura could also be included as the eighth chakra. These chakras are linked together with all other energy systems in the body and various layers of the auras. The Speed of the chakra spin is a key to vibrant health. The other keys to vibrant health that relates to the chakra is ensuring they are clear of negative energy and that they are perfectly shaped and not distorted. The Five Rites speed up the spinning of the chakras, coordinate their spin so they are in complete harmony, distribute pure prana energy to the endocrine system, and in turn to all organs and processes in the body. This is one of the major requirements for vibrant health, rejuvenation and youthfulness.

I recorded the following videos of the 5 Tibetan Rites at my Yoga and Spirit Dance studio in Granada, Spain.  My base is now in Granada, Spain, and I travel teaching workshops in different cities.  Sorry about the poor lighting, it didn´t seem this dark when I recorded, but I guess the next time I shoot videos I will have to put on a very strong light.  Hope you enjoy and feel free to ask question or make comments.  My email is: anaoteroyoga@gmail.com