Muladhara: Week One

मुलधर चक्र

I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more"
— Rumi

What's the use of a fine house if you don't have tolerable planet to put it on?

—Henry David Thoreau

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

—Wendell Berry

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.—

Mahatma Ghandi

 When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...
― Martin Luther King Jr.

 I am rooted, but I flow.

 ― Virginia Woolf

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

 — Søren Kierkegaard




 

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

—Mahatma Ghandi

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

 — Walt Whitman

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
 ― Rainer Maria Rilke

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

 ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet 

Readings about the Root Chakra-Muladhara 
Kundalini Yoga for the West
The Sevenfold Journey 

Home Practice
 Simple Vinyasa 1
Simple Vinyasa 2

Pranayama with Mantra 
Pranayama Practice: There is Enough for All