Enjoy these yoga articles, yoga videos & links from Julie Lusk.  

Julie Lusk is author of  6 books: Yoga Nidra Meditations, Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation & Stress Relief, Yoga Meditations Book & CD Set; 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery & Inner Healing – 2 Volumes; Desktop Yoga ® and numerous audio recordings.  Click Here for details and ordering info.

♥  Page Summary 

• What is yoga and how to choose a class
• Breathing techniques, yoga sequences and videos
• Chakra energy empowerment articles and charts
• Yoga Nidra (yoga sleep)
• Yoga meditations
• Yoga mudras (hand gestures)
• Desktop Yoga ® (chair yoga)
• Inspiring quotes
• Free yoga guidebook (pdf)

♥  Handy Links

• Complete Catalog of books, recordings & more
• Class Schedule 
• Scroll down ⇓ for your Free Yoga Basics Guidebook

Yoga is skill in action without regard for results.
– Bhagavad-Gita 2.50

Physical postures are mastered when practiced mindfully, effortlessly, and with awareness of the Infinite.
– Yoga Sutras 2.47

Om 

What is yoga?

• What is Hatha Yoga.  What type of poses are practiced and some of the benefits
• The Essence of Yoga
• Yoga Postures & Pictures (pdf)
• Scroll down for your free Yoga Basics Guidebook by Julie Lusk (eBook download)

How to choose a class?

• How to choose a yoga class: Getting Started
• Julie’s current class schedule (Zoom, greater Cincinnati – Milford, OH)
• Julie’s national and international workshop schedule

Yoga Articles on Breathing Techniques (Pranayama)

• Benefits and how to do
  • Complete Yogic Breath: Dirgha Breathing
  • Ocean Breath: Ujjayi Breathing
  • The Cooling Breath: Shitali Breathing
  • Breath of Fire: Kapalabhati Breathing
  • Alternate Nostril Breathing:  Nadi Shodhana / Nadi Suddhi

Yoga Sequences and a few Free Videos

• Good to the Core: Yoga to strengthen & flatten abdominal muscles, tone back, legs, hips & more
• Yoga for a Healthy Heart
• Salute to the Moon (Chandra Namaskar) (with video)
• Sun Salute: With a cat (Surya Namaskar) (with video)
• Superbrain Yoga ® (with video)
• Take a 2-hour Power Nap in 10 minutes (with video)
• Strengthen Bones with Yoga & Diet (with video)
• Eye Exercises to improve vision and brain function
• Brain Yoga supercharges your memory, concentration, mood, etc. Get specialized postures, breathing methods, meditations, guided imagery and mudras
• Help Immunity, sinus headaches, sore throats and drainage with yoga (postures, video, mudra and more).

Yoga Nidra for Deep Conscious Relaxation

• Yoga Nidra FAQ Julie Lusk that explains 
  • What is Yoga Nidra?
  • Is it different than meditation and hypnosis?
  • How it is done.  How often.
  • Benefits of yoga nidra
  • Resources
• Yoga Nidra FAQ on Setting Intentions & Sankalpas
• Yoga Nidra’s Benefits
• How to Practice Savasana, the Relaxation Pose
• Yoga Nidra and Sleep One hour of yoga nidra practice is equivalent to four hours of sleep.  This is due to the series of brain waves experienced along the way.  (Saraswati 1998, Kumar 2008)
• Learn about Yoga Nidra and Your Brain.  It’s fascinating!
• Use this recording to experience the power of yoga nidra.

♥ Training in Yoga Nidra for Teachers & Health Professionals is available now. ♥  

Books & Recordings on Yoga Nidra by Julie Lusk

• • Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief,  Also available in French and Italian.  
  • Yoga Nidra Meditations: 24 Scripts for True Relaxation is Julie’s newest book.
  • Get Yoga Nidra recordings on CD here and download here.
  • Complete Catalog of books, recordings & more
  • Scroll down for your Free Yoga Basics Guidebook

Chakra Articles & Charts

• Learn about chakras and their influences | Get your Complete Chakra Chart
• Chakra Balancing with Sound Healing. Use the Elemental Chakra Tone Chart to balance your chakra energy by either increasing or decreasing their energy with sound, color, and special mantras. The Vedic (Yoga) and Tibetan notes and tones are given. It’s fun.
• How to balance chakra energy with toning and hand & finger movements called mudras.
• Get info related to chakra elements, directions, sounds, senses, and other attributes 
• Chakra Energy Flow Meditation
• Understanding OM | AUM
• Book a Musical Sound Bath session

Yoga Meditations

♥  Get your copy of  Yoga Meditations Book & CD set by Julie Lusk (Whole Person Press Publisher)

• Cultivate the Positive: Pratipaksha Bhavana
• Power of Presence CD featuring Cultivate the Positive, Sinking Into Sensation, Energy Breathing & Everybody is Here
• Sa Ta Na Ma Meditation: Kirtan Kriya
  • Intro to Sa Ta Na Ma Meditation
  • How to practice Sa Ta Na Ma Meditation
  • Research Studies on Sa Ta Na Ma Meditation and Memory
  • Sa Ta Na Ma Meditation on CD is on sale
• What is Mindfulness & Why it Matters
• Mindfulness Meditation Warnings & Alerts
• Gain from Guided Imagery & Relaxation
• Stop ~ Look ~ Listen Meditation
• More on Meditation, Guided Imagery & Relaxation
• Meditation on the Fly: Handling Distractions (video)
• Loving Kindness Face Lift
• Happy Humming Practice

♥  Complete Catalog of books, recordings & more – includes Yoga Meditations, Yoga Nidra & others

Yoga Articles on Mudras (hand gestures)

Mudras are yoga positions, gestures, and seals for your hands and fingers that facilitate health, healing, psychological balance and spiritual transformation.   Some mudras use the whole body and breath.  They are effective, easy to learn, practical and powerful, and anyone can do them. 

• Intro to Yoga Mudras (beneficial yoga hand gestures / postures for the hands)
• Yoga mudra handout: Description, uses, how to’s, & mudras for physical and emotional health. (pdf)
• How to do mudras for:
  • Warm-ups for Hands: Here’s a great 5-minute series of hand movements & mudras video to help your fingers, wrists, and hands with easy-to-remember names for each one. Great for musicians & anyone with stiff, painful fingers, hands or wrists. Learn the Hakini Mudra, Beak, Bug, Claw, Paw, Seed, Web, Wings & the Eagle and Hridaya mudras.
  • Allergy Relief:  Bhramara Mudra
  • Achieving Goals, Finding Objects & more | Kubera Mudra for Confidence
  • Energy, confidence and courage and reducing fatigue and nervousness | Pran Mudra
  • Headaches |  Mahashirsha Mudra
  • Temperature Control, Stamina and Equilibrium | Ring Finger Mudra
  • Brain-Body Balance, Problem-Solving, Focus | Hakini Mudra
  • Contentment: Vishnu Mudra and Nasagra Mudra for Alternate Nostril Breathing | Nadi Shodhana |Nadi Suddhi
  • Mental-Emotional Stability. Improve breath capacity and immunity | Hridaya Mudra  
• Elemental and Chakra Meditation using hand movements, color, sound, and intention.

Desktop Yoga ® by Julie Lusk ~ published by Penguin Putnam Books

Stay alert, productive and stress-free with effective chair exercises to relieve aching backs, tired eyes and tight shoulders.  Replenish your energy by learning ‘How to take a two-hour nap in two-minutes.’

• Desktop Yoga Sampler
• Schedule a Desktop Yoga workshop for your business or organization

Get Inspired

• Yoga Sayings, Quotes and Poems
• Yoga Mantras & Chants
• The 4 keys to unlocking lasting happiness 
• World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher (video)
• Blessing in the Chaos ~ Jan Richardson
• Follow Your Heart’s Desire according to Alan Watts (video)
• How to Make a Yogatini
• Never Give Up: How Yoga Transforms (video)
• In These Arms: May all beings be happy, safe & free with Jennifer Berezan (video)
• New Moon: How to Gain from its Power
• Wabi-Sabi: The Power of Imperfection
• To Hiss or Not to Hiss
• My Meeting with the Dalai Lama
• Do it Anyway by Sal Spalenger
• Holiday Energizers
• ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Yoga Poem

♥  Get your Free Yoga Guidebook by Julie Lusk featuring:

• Important Guidelines for the Practice of Yoga
• Benefits, Cautions and Contraindications for yoga poses
• Yoga Asana Chart ©
• Alignment Guidelines and Selected Warm Ups to Open Joints and Warm Muscles
• Yoga Guidelines for Health Conditions (arthritis, back problems, cancer, high blood pressure, menstruation, pregnancy, PMS and menopause, etc.)

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  Julie Lusk, MEd, E-RYT 500, has more than 35 years of expertise in stress relief, yoga, relaxation training, guided imagery, and meditation as an international author, recording artist, and workshop leader. Julie is the author of Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, Yoga Meditations, two volumes of 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing, and Desktop Yoga®. Her audio downloads and CDs include Wholesome Relaxation, Power of Presence, Yoga Nidra Essentials, Blue Moon Rising, and many others. Learn more at WholesomeResources.com

   

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How to Balance & Tune
Chakra Energy
Using Healing Sound Vibrations

Page Summary | Chakra Energy  | Sound Healing | Chakra Tone Chart

Chakra Energy  

Chakras are spinning wheels of subtle energy.  The major chakras span from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.  They guide the wellbeing of our bodymind and lifeforce energy.  You can learn more about chakras and their influences here.   Get info related to chakra elements, directions, sounds, senses, and other attributes here.

Chakra energy is often out of balance.  It can run too high or too low.  This can negatively influence your actions, relationships, as well as your physical, mental, and emotional health.

Use my Chakra Chart to help you in knowing if your energy is balanced, excessive, or deficient. A variety of helpful strategies are given to improve your wellbeing.

There is a lot you can do to gain balance and have better health by either increasing or decreasing chakra energy.  This can be supported through intentionally using sound, color, crystals, and mantra.  Yoga postures and pranayama (breathwork) influence the chakras. Healthy lifestyle choices make a difference.  Meditation, guided relaxation and imagery are very effective. Using hand and finger positions called Yoga Mudras are also powerful.

Sound Healing

Sound healing intentionally uses musical instruments and vocals to help with harmonizing the body, mind, emotions, and spirit into wholeness. A positive impact on wellbeing happens when these dimensions are tuned and in balance.

Sensing calmness, connections, mental clarity, emotional equilibrium, insightful awareness, and balanced energy often happen.

A variety of instruments can be used including Tibetan and crystal bowls, tuning forks, drums, bells, flutes, gongs, chimes, strings, and keyboards.  Vocal singing and toning are powerful as well.

The tones, frequencies, and vibrations used in sound healing are experienced both physically and energetically. Obviously, sounds are heard with the ears. Not so obviously, they are experienced and absorbed through the skin, by the cells, and in the energy field.

Sound healing facilitates vibrant health by activating the relaxation response, synchronizing and activating brainwave frequencies beneficially, and supporting heart coherence.  It has been shown to regulate the nervous system. Chakra energy is often toned and harmonized.  Chakra disharmony is discussed below.

Sound healing is based on age-old teachings and backed up by modern science.  It’s interesting, relaxing, and fun.

Chakra Tone Chart

This Chakra Tone Chart can help balance your chakra energy to improve your wellbeing.  These sound vibrations are based on ancient Vedic (Yoga) and Tibetan notes and tones, and western music.

Use this Chakra Chart to help you know if your energy is balanced, excessive, or deficient. It gives you a variety of helpful strategies to improve your wellbeing.

Try all the healing sound vibrations to find out what you like and works best for you. Notice your felt reaction to each of these scales, notes, and sounds to determine how your bodymind responds to each vibration.

• The Sargam scale from Indian music goes from the lowest to the highest note of any scale (like solfege or do-re-mi).  This makes it very versatile. It allows you to start on any note depending on your vocal range or the instruments you have on hand.  For example, if you have Tibetan or crystal bowls, start on the lowest tone for the root chakra and play progressively higher tones for ascending up through the chakras.
• Yoga (Vedic) tones are based on the western diatonic scale.
• Tibetan tones and notes are based upon the perfect 5th interval.
• Bija sounds encode the 5 elements into sound. They are used to stimulate and strengthen chakra energy when depleted.
• Vowel tones diffuse, connect, and move energy.  They are helpful to calm and soothe energy and when energy is excessive.
  • Alternate vowels are sometimes used instead of those shown on the chart.  Try these variations out on yourself to find out which vowels resonant most for you.  They are Root – UH (as in huh).  Sacral – OOO (two).  Solar Plexus – OH (toe).  Heart – AH (awe).  Throat – EYE (eye). Third eye – AYE (play).  Crown – EEE (speak).

Handy Links

• Learn about chakras and their influences | Get your Complete Chakra Chart
• Chakra Balancing with Sound Healing. Use the Elemental Chakra Tone Chart to balance your chakra energy by either increasing or decreasing their energy with sound, color, and special mantras. The Vedic (Yoga) and Tibetan notes and tones are given. It’s fun.
• How to balance chakra energy with toning and hand & finger movements called mudras.
• Get info related to chakra elements, directions, sounds, senses, and other attributes 
• Chakra Energy Flow Meditation
• Understanding OM | AUM
• Book a Musical Sound Bath session 

Yoga Meditations: Timeless Mind-Body Practices - Book & CD set

Awaken joy, peace and inspiration with this yoga meditations book. Yoga Meditations contains a wide variety of mind-body practices, such as: * Guided relaxation exercises * Breathing practices * Yoga Nidra * Meditations and guided imagery * Affirmations * Yoga postures and meditations for each chakra * Yoga wisdom for contemplation Get a FREE Wholesome Energizers CD in every book! CLICK the blue title link above to find out more...

Chakra Chart

Finally! A complete Chakra Chart with all the chakra names, locations, colors, sounds, yoga postures, breathing techniques, psychological & energetic influences and more. There's handy tips for using the chart on the reverse side. It's 8 1/2 by 14" and laminated. CLICK on the blue title link above to find out more...

Chakra-Based Guided Meditations

Real Relaxation Yoga Nidra takes you into a deeply relaxing and powerful restful state of being fully aware while being in the state of deep yogic sleep.  It helps with balancing chakra energy, and can improve immunity, heart health, relieve stress and give you inner peace and balance.

Get it from Amazon, iTunes, Spotify & other online stores