Ether

Some Ether Element Basics

Representation in the physical body: Ear (sense organ), Mouth (action organ). Ether is also expressed within the empty spaces in the body, the hollow of the empty intestines, blood vessels, bladder, and the lungs are filled with ether.

Characteristics: Subtle, light, cold, omnipresent, expansive, spirituality, intution, truth. Ether is the everything and nothing!

Associated Sense: Hearing

Associated Chakra: Throat, Colour: Bright Blue

Yoga Poses: Camel, fish, bridge, shoulder-stand, headstand

Affirmations: I Feel Spacious in My Body, I Express Myself with Clarity and Intention, I Hear and Speak Truth with Ease

Feng Shui (spaces): Ether isn’t one of the main Elements of Feng Shui.

Explore

READ The Five Elements: Ether in Ayurveda

READ Journey through the 5 elements: Ether

READ The Ether Element: Symbolism, Functions and Practices to Balance

PRACTICE Light Ourselves Up (Short Hatha Yoga Practice - 8 mins) and/or Blue Throat (Slow Flow - 38 mins)

MEDITATE Practice Bhramari Pranayama (Bees Breath) followed by seated silent meditation.

Reflect + Journal

  • Bring your awareness to sound and your sense of hearing this week. Notice your relationship to the sense of hearing, how do the sounds around you effect how you operate and feel in your everyday life? Are you sensitive to sound, or do you have to bring extra focus to your sense of hearing?

  • What sounds did you love this week, and why? What sounds did you dislike/avoid this week, and why?

  • Bring your awareness to the space this week. The space within you, do you feel restricted or expansive, in your body and in your breath? The spaces around you, where you spend your day, how do the spaces you move through feel? How the space between you and another person, or animal or plant feels?

  • Reflect on the story of the Bug’s eye view and journal.

Practice

  • Practice the Hatha pranayama practice or Slow Flow practice above 2-3x this week (daily if you can).

  • Practice Bhramari Pranayama 2-3x this week (daily if you can).

  • Keep your sense of Hearing engaged this week, take note of what you notice.