Mental Health and Chakras: Understanding their Connection with Kristine Weber

Is there a connection between your chakras and your mental health? How do you process your life experiences through each chakra? What does the current research say about biofields? MEET KRISTINE WEBERKristine Weber, MA, is a leading authority on the neuroscientific benefits of slow, mindful yoga and an advocate for the use of these practices as a part of the solution to the healthcare crisis. Kristine is leading the charge to get slow, mindful practices to people who desperately need them through her Subtle® Yoga Revolution series of online courses and training for yoga teachers. She has been studying yoga and holistic healing for nearly 30 years, teaching yoga since 1995, and training teachers since 2003. Find out more at https://subtleyoga.com/ (www.subtleyoga.com) and connect with Kristine on https://www.facebook.com/subtleyoga (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/subtleyoga/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/subtleyoga (Twitter). IN THIS PODCAST:Chakras: a recap 11:38 Biofields 12:59 The connection between chakras and mental health 18:39 Different chakras 25:25 Chakras: a recap One thing that I think just about every therapist understands quite well is that human beings experience their emotions somewhere on the midline of the body. (Kristine Weber) Some idioms express this, such as someone saying; “I was so sad and choked-up that I couldn’t express myself”, or “that broke my heart”, or “I’m so confused it’s giving me a headache” and so forth. Most practitioners can agree that there is a midline in the body that acts as a manifestation of someone’s emotions. This is the interaction between the nervous system and the brain. Biofields The history of chakras is being carried over into the research around biofields. There have been some questionable publications around biofields, but then there are also recent publications that are rooted in science that speak to biofields' existence and their influence. There’s some very interesting stuff about biofield science that’s [been] confirmed