Throat Chakra Week 5 Recap (Days 29-35)

This bonus episode recaps Week 5 (Days 29-35) of a 49 Day Meditation Series based on the Art of Conscious Evolution Chakra deck by Kate Lemay. The theme of Week 5 is the Throat, Fifth Chakra or Vishuddha. Kate's 49 paintings each honor a different chakra, 7 each for the 7 main energy centers. We will be moving from root to crown, and back down again, alternating for 7 weeks. I hope you enjoy the journey and are inspired by the paintings, themes and whimsy of the incredible artist, Kate Lemay.

References:

Kate Lemay, Artist of Conscious of Evolution

https://www.katelemay.com/

Two Books by Anodea Judith: 

Wheels of Life & Eastern Body, Western Mind

Mr. Neil Shapiro, beloved late Drama Teacher & Theater Director at Winthrop High School, Winthrop, MA

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Transcript

 Welcome to your Throat Chakra overview. We are in Week 5 of 49 days of meditations, inspired by the Art of Conscious Evolution by Kate Lemay. Kate has 49 chakra paintings, seven for each of the seven main energy centers, and she made her paintings into a card deck as well. And we're using her paintings and cards as inspiration for the series.

And we are in Week 5, so we're moving through the throat chakra, that's our theme for the week. And in Sanskrit, throat is Vishuddha, which stands for purification. The core concepts are self-expression, vibration, communication, resonance, speaking your truth, voice, purifying and aligning through sound, chanting, singing, speech. The body scene is the throat, neck, ears, jaw, mouth, teeth, shoulders, and thyroid gland. And Kate's paintings are inspired and a lot of them are named after the work of Anodea Judith, who is like a chakra guru. She has incredible chakra reference books, Wheels of Life, and Eastern Body, Western Mind. And she has these nice write-ups, just like Kate does in her book, kind of summing up a lot of the aspects of each chakra.

So the color for the throat is blue. It's often associated with vibration, communication, creativity, and if you have malfunction in this area of the body, you could experience a lot of sore throats, stiff necks, colds, thyroid problems, hearing problems. The sense is hearing, the sound is hum and minerals, turquoise, aquamarine, celestite, and I like the animals too, elephant bull, lion. And in Eastern Body, Western Mind, she goes a little bit into more in depth detail, element: sound. The issues that come up sometimes in the chakra are around communication, creativity, listening, resonance, finding one's own voice.

The identity is creative; orientation, self-expression. The issue we often come across is lying, and the developmental stage is seven to 12 years. This is where we're developing our creative expression, our communication skills, symbolic thinking, basic rights to speak and be heard. Yeah, so much here, right?

So your communication center, I always think of like when you lose your voice. I like to joke around when I lose my voice that Ursula stole it. I'm like, just gimme back my voice.  'Cause it's often when you want to speak, suddenly you can't, you get the frog in the throat, feeling the choked up feeling.

Anxiety rises up from the heart and gets trapped in the throat and your voice cracks and yeah, finding your voice. And being able to communicate clearly and also feel like you're being heard, right? How much do we hold the truth often from ourselves and from others in order to protect ourselves?

So I always think of my middle school and high school drama teacher when I think of the throat chakra because he often comes in on this one, like "Find your voice!" and he would always like, have us, uh, when you're on stage and you're not micd, you really have to project to, to be heard and diction is really important.

And I had a really strong Boston accent growing up, so diction was a little difficult. And he would stand like way, way back in the theater and sit in the back row. And he was like very animated.  But he helped me believe that my voice was important. That even when I was telling a story that was not my own, that my input into the character and the mannerisms that I would express meant something.

I'm getting chills because Mr. Shapiro meant a great deal to me and he was somebody that I met in those formative years, like middle school and high school years, where you're really trying to find your identity and find what's important to you. And those mentors, those people that help you see parts of yourself that you cannot see, that is like throat chakra energy, right? So being those mirrors and, showing you your gifts and helping you find your voice and expressing yourself and encouraging you and celebrating you for it.  

I find in this one, I talk a lot. So, and I've always been like that, right, even since I was really small. And that doesn't always go so great when you're in school and you're learning. You learn like there's a time to speak and a time not to speak.

And that was really hard for me, right? And we also like should be able to share our opinion, right? But it's often your environment that you have to adapt to. But think of like when you're in an environment where you feel so free to express yourself and to communicate and to play off other people's energy.

And sometimes too, I find myself in situations where I don't wanna talk. I just wanna listen and observe and, and hear people's stories, and feel their feeling, you know, and, and just, and have that experience right of, of not speaking. So I find that a lot. And sometimes sitting in silence is so uncomfortable and you're just talking to try and fill the silence to try and make somebody less uncomfortable, including yourself.

But silence is so powerful and leaving space for that, right? So how to be in balance in the throat, when to speak, when to listen. Really practicing active listening can be so, so important. Um, we were moving through a liberation series in Kate's paintings so we're in week five, so we moved through, Kundalini, Change, Digestion, Breath, Ether, Quantum Jump, and Snowman. So that liberation current opening, expanding. And in that, you know, that voice series, that frequency, so a lot of these concepts, you know, how do we apply them to real life and, and use meditation and work with chakras as a tool to help us get where we want to be and to work through some stuff.  

The throat is a masculine chakra. So, more action oriented, more yang of the yin and yang energy, more direct. So, yeah, it's all about truth and so many, good things to explore here. So I would love to hear your thoughts on the throat and how can you love on the throat? Maybe drink your favorite beverage. Maybe a nice warm cup of tea can help soothe the throat. Maybe you sing, maybe you hum,  chanting. So, lot of beautiful things here. 

And we'll be back next week in the third eye. We have two weeks left and just sending you so much love. Take care.