Restorative Yoga for the Chakras & Winter Solstice with Donna O’Neil

Restorative yoga is a practice of stillness and rest, with each pose placing the body into a passive shape that opens or relaxes certain areas of the body. In yoga, the primary colors that we like to see on holiday-lit homes are also colors used to represent the levels of the consciousness that we carry in our bodies. Each chakra of the spine has attributes of color. Each chakra, or energy center in the spine, is said to help us move upward to our highest self, like that star on the top of the tree, representing unified consciousness. In our practice of restorative yoga, we will sequentially emphasize opening each of these energy centers and in doing that, light the chakras within.