Nature and Yoga: Balance with Essential Oils

By Elasa Tina Tiernan Sherbs

When we spend time in nature, we experience remembrance of our perfection and the divine harmony of all creatures and creations. While immersed in nature, we can sense and experience its knowingness of balance. And just like nature, our bodies intrinsically understand how to come back to balance.

When we seek practices to move the body or still the mind into alignment, such as meditation and yoga, the ripples of self correction are received gracefully into our being. From this point, we can seek an even higher level of evolution in balance by weaving together the brilliance of plant consciousness into our daily yoga and meditation practices by using essential oils!

In this marriage, we allow the codes and understandings from nature herself to help us enter into a receptive inner state, align with well-being, and actualize our intentions with the assistance of all creation. Use the following daily practice to meld the beautiful nature of essential oils with a yoga and meditation for balancing body, mind and soul.

Into Practice

During this practice, you can use essential oil compounds in three ways: aromatic, topical, and internal (provided the oils are food-grade and safe for consumption). The adaptogen nature of high-quality, unadulterated essential oils allows the body to take in what it needs and then use these substances to bring the body back to balance. But before you start, please remember to dilute essential oils with a carrier oil if you have sensitive skin or if the oil has a tendency to be hot on the skin.

Beginning of practice: Diffuse or breathe in Cypress to allow the lungs to begin cleansing any stagnant energies, bacteria, and/or fear.

Set the intention for your practice: Drop two drops of food-grade Grapefruit into a glass water bottle and drink to invite the kidneys, lymphatic system, and vascular system to let go of that which seeks release and flow.

Breathe work: Place one drop of Juniper Berry on your third eye brow point to come into the lighter and elevated space of peace in your mind, letting go of anything that is not needed in your practice and to ground your presence in the “now.”

Sun Salutation (one to five repetitions): Place two drops of Basil diluted in one tablespoon of coconut oil and apply to all joints before sun salutation movements. There are many variations of this sequence. Use your favorite or check out options online at resources such as Yoga Journal (http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/1040).

Tree Pose (balance pose): Prior to taking this posture, place one drop of Rosemary on your heart and one drop on your navel for knowledge of your higher connection and divine guidance to attain perfection, releasing any confusion around how to maintain balance. (Visit Yoga Journal for instructions on tree pose http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/496.)

Savasana (rest pose): Place 1 drop of Roman Chamomile in hands and rub briskly to awaken the compounds of “purpose,” cup your hands around your nose and breathe in deeply for two to five minutes while laying down in savasana. (Visit Yoga Journal for instructions on savasana or corpse pose http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/482.)

Meditation: Place one drop of Sandalwood on the top of the head at the crown. Hold hands in a mudra of thumb and index finger touching, while resting the hands palm up on the thighs. Allowing the brilliance and pure potential of all that surrounds us on this great earth to assist with the flow of energies forward through the entire universe, come to accept, understand, and live a life of true balance.

Affirmation: Say “I am in allowance of balance in my life.”

Namaste!

Elasa Tina Tiernan Sherbs is the co-creator of Sol Terra Lifestyle Center and Bliss Empowerment Center. An author and creatix with Soul Star Productions, she offers Essential Oil Yoga Workshops (CEU); Sol Sessions and Education; Sol Art; Terra Gardens; and Lifestyle Yoga for Children Programs. Visit www.everythingessential.me and www.SoulStarSource.com.

 

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