ChakraVibe suggests exploring food for chakra healing

Foods, especially foods that share colors with the chakras, carry vibrations that can activate or balance your chakras.  book_cover_cffoh_b

Root Chakra Healing Foods: Protein (especially animal protein), root vegetables, edible and medicinal mushrooms, red-colored foods (apples, pomegranates, etc)

Sacral Chakra Healing Foods: Fats and oils, fish (especially wild-caught salmon), tropical fruits, seeds, nuts, orange-colored foods (oranges, tangerines, carrots, etc.)

Solar Plexus Chakra Healing Foods: Carbohydrates (complex), fiber, whole grains, legumes, yellow-colored foods (yellow sweet peppers, yellow lentils, corn, etc.)

Heart Chakra Healing Foods: Vegetables (especially cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, kale, cabbage, and leafy greens), sprouts, raw foods, foods rich in chlorophyll, plant compounds like phytoestrogens and phytosterols, any green-colored foods.

Throat Chakra Healing Foods: Sea-plants, fruits, juices, soups, sauces, (which bring together different elements like water and earth), and foods from different ethnic groups (The throat chakra encourages variety of foods.)

Third Eye Chakra Healing Foods: Caffeine, tea, chocolate, spices, wine, purple-red foods (purple potatoes, red onions, blackberries, blueberries, purple grapes, etc.)

Crown Chakra Healing Foods: Since the crown chakra is more “spirit” than “matter,” it is not nourished with physical foods in the same way that they feed other chakras, but the crown chakra thrives on the sustenance that comes from sunlight, air, and love.

Read more on Healing Chakra Foods and “How the colors on your plate can light the way to health” By Deanna Minich, PhD, CN to find out which health conditions are associated with which chakra, and learn how to choose foods to bring your chakras into balance.

Learn more about Deanna Minich, PhD, CN and her book on Chakra Foods for Optimum Health: A Guide to the Foods that Improve Your Energy, Inspire Creative Changes, Open Your Heart, and Heal Body, Mind, and Spirit

Congratulations to Connie for winning the ChakraVibe prize

Connie H., is the My Yoga Story Contest Winner. She receives a $75 jewelry gift package from ChakraVibe Jewelry. Click here to read Connie H Yoga Story. Thanks to My Yoga Online for organizing theheader_logo contest.

ChakraVibe jewelry accompanied Eoin Finn on his recent yoga video shoot to Bali.

This stunning setting is the background for Eoin’s new Everyday Yoga & Meditation, a 6 DVD yoga + meditation set which launches this fall. We are thrilled to accent Eoin Finn along with his wife Insiya Rasiwalaeoin_finn and fellow yogini Paula Blanchet as they perform yoga and meditations.

Eoin is wearing the Warrior Choker.

Chakravibe’s warrior necklace combines semi precious tiger eye, wood agate, red, brown jasper and brass beads. Tiger eye synthesizes the energies of the sun and the earth associated with the solar plexus, enhancing stability, optimism, good fortune, and physic abilities. Jasper was considered a Warriors Stone providing inner strength and loyalty. Both jasper and agate are very grounding, solid and stable, excellent protective and healing energy associated with the root chakra.

Wearing Chakravibe grounding warrior necklace fosters the qualities one requires to find their way in today’s urban jungle. Inspiring vision, optimism, courage and tenacity to follow your dreams.

Top 10 Yoga Poses For Relieving Tension Headaches

If daily stress is getting to you, ChakraVibe recommends reading Top Yoga Poses for Headaches, at My Yoga Online article by Kreg Weiss. Kreg explores 10 classical yoga exercises that will help alleviate the tension_headachscause and symptoms of tension headaches.

Yoga can be a beneficial therapeutic tool for relieving headaches brought on by muscle tension and stress. The majority of headaches originate from muscle stiffness and imbalances emanating from the neck and upper back. When headaches set in, using a series of restorative yoga exercises can greatly relieve both the cause and symptoms.

Take advantage of restorative yoga exercises to treat your headache. Before jumping for a chemical medication that usually just masks the symptoms, see how these key yoga poses can first work to naturally eliminate the cause of the headache and free you from the discomfort arising from imbalances and stress.

We at ChakraVibe love our Green Apples.

Apple computers are the computers of choice here at our ChakraVibe offices. So we are thrilled to hear that Macintosh computers has decided to listen to their customers to create a more green_my_appleenvironment friendly product. After months of grassroots consumer lobbying, aided by shrewd toxic campaigns by Greenpeace, the MacBook family has been redesigned to be more in tune with the new environmental ethic movement.

These new Mac shave fewer toxic components. The body is formed from a single, solid piece of aluminum, which makes it easier to recycle. Significantly more energy efficient, including automatic display dimming, that can last eight hours on a single charge and have five year lifespan. Amazing! Mac also brags that its new notebooks are shipped with less packaging. It’s about time!

Congratulations to all the Apple fans who have contributed their thoughts and blogs and creativity to this campaign!  You’ve proven you can make a real difference by convincing one of the world’s most cutting edge companies to cut the toxic ingredients out of the products they sell. To join the movement or for more information, go to greenmyapple.org

An Inspirational Yoga DVD

Yoga inspired me to start ChakraVibe and to create yoga jewelry with meaning and intention. I came across this wonderful film with other inspirational yoga storiesyoga_and-_me

For some, yoga has been the salvation from the chaos of modern life.

Yoga and Me is a documentary featuring inspirational stories from hatha yoga teachers. Award-winning filmmaker, Robbie Baldwin has profiled leading yoga teachers from around the world to explore how yoga changed their lives. The result is a yoga video full of inspirational messages and personal stories that demonstrate the healing and transformative power of yoga. For more information about the film go to: http://www.yogaandme.com/about.html . You can also purchase the DVD.yoga_and_me_dvd

Summer Detoxifying Cleanse

Good for body and soul, ChakraVibe recommends a summer detoxifying cleanse.raw_food

With summer in full swing markets and gardens are brimming with luscious ripe fruits and vegetables. If you have ever thought about embarking on a cleansing program, now would be the time to do it! What exactly is a cleanse, you ask? Simply put, when your body does not have to constantly attend to the complex tasks of digestion, assimilation and elimination-it is able to more efficiently attend to some of its other functions, the most important being cleansing and healing.

Drastically simplifying your intake of food will allow your body to expend its energy on cleansing and healing.

Nami Shannon author of The Raw Gourmet describes three ways to prepare fresh fruit and vegetables for a detox cleanse; you can juice them,  blend them, or simply eat the entire fruit and vegetable raw if you don’t have a juicer or a blender. For more tips and recipes you can read her complete article.

How will you feel at the end of a detoxifying cleanse? Most people report feeling lighter in body and mind, clearer skin, clearer thoughts, weight loss and lessening or the complete disappearance of bothersome symptoms like sinusitis, digestive disorders, mood swings, fatigue, high blood pressure and much more. With a new spring in your step and a flatter belly, the results of enjoying summers bounty will be well worth it.

raw_gourmet Check out The Raw Gourmet by authour and lifestyle couch Nami Shannon.

Tattoo Contest Winners

We would like to thank everyone who participated in  Chakravibe  “share your tattoo story contest”  The stories are truly wonderful and  inspiring,  all sharing a common thread which comes through the practice of  yoga, uniting body mind and spirit.

Congratulations  to our  entry winners which  have  been randomly selected  to win one of  3 prizes.

Cory Pagett ,  tattoo story  “Om Namah Shivaya” has won the   Amber Transformation OM Necklace

Kat Mundy ,  tattoo story  “I have always loved tattoos and to date I now have 12″ has won the  Red Coral OM Icon Necklace.

Diane McNeill,  tattoo story  “Beauty is all around us ” has won the  Double Strand Beaded Chakra Bracelet

ChakraVibe meets Namasthé Tea Co.

namasth_logoChakraVibe meets Namasthé Tea Co. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Isabelle Ranger, Master Herbalist and Fonder of Namasthé Tea Co. at the Whistler market. I purchases some divine tea; the Finger Lime Rooibos. It taste soothing, yet refreshing. Not only are the teas amazing in taste, I just love all that Namasthé Tea Co. stands for:

Welcome to Namasthé Tea Co.

We are a local Whistler based Canadian Tea Company dedicated to a Sustainabilitea for our Earth, our Communities, our Well being and our future Generations. Our dharma is to Change the world one cup at a time by offering Certified Organic Whole Leaf Wellness Teas infused with Ancient healing Mantras for your body, mind & Spirit! Thank You for supporting our pledge for positive global change through the ancient ritual of tea.

Namasthé! - Isabelle Ranger Master Herbalist & Founder namasth_chomlak_0081

I highly recommend trying their tea! If you are not in the Whistler or Vancouver area you can order the tea from the website.

You can also follow Isabelle on her blog

ChakraVibe discovers an amazing Yoga Photographer

Recently ChakraVibe, discovered Martin Prihoda is an amazing yoga photographer. As well, a commercial and editorial portraiture photographer and a filmmaker.mp

To view his complete portfolio (which is a must) go to: http://www.martinprihoda.com