Spending a weekend with my yoga guru, Baron Baptiste, was an amazing experience.  Twelve hours a day of power vinyasa yoga has a way of cleansing the body and mind of many distractions and helps clear away the cobwebs.

In yogic philosophy, the chakras, or the body’s subtle energy centers, channel our energies and keep us balanced and spiritually aligned .  The lower chakras, such as the Root Chakra,  ground us in our earthly realities, while the higher chakras, such as the Ajna, or Third Eye Chakra, connect us to a more ethereal plane.  Yogis associate the Third Eye with transcendentalism and refer to it as the stage of the true yogi.