Herbs and Your Chakras

Herbs have been cultivated and utilized for thousands of years for specific energetic purposes, such as manifesting good luck and blessings.

Working on clearing and balancing the chakras and related organs of the body is a form of preventative health. This series will integrate the use of herbs as powerful tools to help clear the energy fields from negative thoughts, emotions and feelings and enhance clarity in our energy fields to enhance our state of being.. The use of herbal teas, tinctures, essential oils and flower essences to enhance our inner and outer connectivity to meridians will be discussed. There will be a certified organic herbal tea and herbal oils used for aromatherapy to enhance awareness of the topics offered for those interested in participating.

Each class covers a different chakra, and are held the 2nd Wednesday of the month at Parastudy from 7:30 PM to 9 PM.

First - Root Chakra

Grounding centering. Connectivity of our physical and spiritual bodies to the earth and nature. Our physical Identity, self preservation and survival instincts are connected with this chakra. Will focus on enhancing our health, prosperity, security and presence.

Second - Sacral Chakra

Empathy, creativity, sensuality. We connect our emotional identity with this chakra. Our feelings of desire, sensation, movement, depth of feeling, sexual fulfillment and ability to accept change will be the focus.

Third - Solar Plexus Chakra

Personal efforts to control life. Generating one’s own thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than relying on outside influences, ego, identity, personal power, will, autonomy, metabolism, energy, effectiveness, spontaneity and non-dominating power will all be integrated for this chakra.

Fourth - Heart Chakra

Integrates upper and lower chakra energies. Feelings of unconditional love, social identity, self-acceptance and the ability to love deeply, feel compassion and have a deep sense of peace and centeredness will be discussed here.

Fifth – Throat Chakra

Speaking Truth and Clarity in communication. Sound, creative identity, and oriented self-expression.

Sixth – The 3rd Eye Chakra

Clairvoyant Perception, archetypal identity oriented to self reflection, seeing intuitively and physically. Seeing clearly in order to be able to perceive the big picture with clarity, thus relieving confusion, which can lead to depression.

Seventh – The Crown Chakra

Thought, Universal identity oriented to self-knowledge, consciousness as pure awareness, wisdom, understanding, spiritual connection and bliss will be the topics discussed.

Kelly Bell is a Certified Herbalist, trained in the didactic, therapeutic, laboratory and fieldwork of Herbalism through Sage Mountain Herbal Center in East Barre, Vermont. She began her acute studies of herbalism and holistic healing as she was finishing high school, after being interested in and introduced to natural therapeutics from childhood. She earned a four year Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon, the last year of which she designed herself and completed with her herbal mentor, Heather Thompson, as an Herbal Apprenticeship. Before and since earning her Herbal Certification and Environmental degree, she continues her herbal education through personal studies, practice and various classes and workshops. In 1995, she began developing a line of Certified Organic handcrafted external herbal remedies that she still enhances to this date.

Cost for each session: $10 for members, $15 for non-members