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Through yoga, meditation, and visualization exercises, Jilly Shipway shows you how to tap into your chakras and enhance your creativity. Working with these seven energy centers helps you bring more success into all areas of your life, including art projects, business endeavors, scientific pursuits, and more. Your improved self-expression can even help heal trauma. In this journey through the chakras, you will learn how Mountain Pose can ground your creative focus and therapeutic writing about the sun can build confidence. Discover how to send love to yourself and others with a walking meditation and unblock stagnant energy by visualizing light. With this book s simple techniques, you can access a deep source of inner wisdom that is the wellspring of all creativity.

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Whether you are an experienced yogi or someone who is looking to be inspired, this book will give you the tools to unblock energy and allow your creative juices to flow. With honesty and authenticity, Jilly leads you through ways to introduce walking, writing, mindfulness, and chakra meditations that aim to build your focus as well as that deep sense of connection that allows us to see the possibility of slowing down and accessing the inner wisdom that resides within.--Donna Negus, yoga and mindfulness teacher We have come to know that when Jilly writes a book, there comes a calm, confident, and friendly guiding hand and heart. She takes us deeper into an area, an interest, a way of life. This latest offering on chakras and ways to entwine them into mindful and yoga-based practices will be a delight and an ongoing source of reference to yoga students and teachers alike.--Lindsey Porter, Yoga Scotland yoga tutor, author of Whirlpools, Yoga and the Balance of Life Chakras for Creativity offers a very comprehensive look at integrating yoga practice with the wisdom of the chakras in order to invite and develop more creativity in your life. It's an accessible book with stand-alone chapters for each chakra, depending on what you want to work the most. The step-by-step guide makes it particularly easy for beginners to follow. Chakras for Creativity is a welcome addition to the bookshelf on creativity especially for those who prefer a physical approach. We all need to listen to and empower our body wisdom more, and this is the book to help.--Bethany Rivers, writer, creative writing tutor, author of Fountain of Creativity, editor of As Above So Below online poetry magazine The book is clearly written from a great deal of knowledge and insight by someone who walks the talk. The contents, although profound, are very accessible and will be of great benefit to teachers and practitioners of both yoga and mindfulness as well as to creative people who may be struggling to give birth to new ideas. The guidelines for practice are written from deep personal life experience and give full acknowledgement to safety and therefore, may be very helpful to people struggling through trauma. A generous, wise, and deeply helpful book.--Marilyn Buckham, yoga and mindfulness teacher Every page spills over with wisdom...This charming, friendly book will help anyone use the chakra model to better know themselves. It's not only a sweet guide to creativity, it's also a beautiful introduction to yoga. This is one to read straight through at first encounter, then revisit time and time again. I love this book!--Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT 500, author of Everyday Yoga and Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses In her inspiring and empowering new book, Jilly advocates an imaginative and playful approach to exploring the Chakras...Bespoke asana sequences, walking and writing meditations, sound, mantras, colours and mandalas all combine in an accessible, practical way, helping us to tap into the transformational power of these seven wheels of energy. In sharing her own honest and at times painful story, Jilly offers the universal possibility of healing. This we can all achieve by accessing our own creative vision, exploring, questioning, reflecting, and, above all, listening to our inner wisdom...This is a rich, stimulating and comforting resource and I recommend it wholeheartedly.--Judy Brenan, British Wheel of Yoga teacher

If you want to access your inner wisdom and ignite your creativity, I can unreservedly recommend the methods Jilly outlines in Chakras for Creativity. Whether you are an experienced yogi or someone who is looking to be inspired, this book will give you the tools to unblock energy and allow your creative juices to flow. With honesty and authenticity, Jilly leads you through ways to introduce walking, writing, mindfulness and chakra meditations that aim to build your focus as well as that deep sense of connection that allows us to see the possibility of slowing down and accessing the inner wisdom that resides within.--Donna Negus, yoga and mindfulness teacher

Whether you are an experienced yogi or someone who is looking to be inspired, this book will give you the tools to unblock energy and allow your creative juices to flow. With honesty and authenticity, Jilly leads you through ways to introduce walking, writing, mindfulness, and chakra meditations that aim to build your focus as well as that deep sense of connection that allows us to see the possibility of slowing down and accessing the inner wisdom that resides within.--Donna Negus, yoga and mindfulness teacher We have come to know that when Jilly writes a book, there comes a calm, confident, and friendly guiding hand and heart. She takes us deeper into an area, an interest, a way of life. This latest offering on chakras and ways to entwine them into mindful and yoga-based practices will be a delight and an ongoing source of reference to yoga students and teachers alike.--Lindsey Porter, Yoga Scotland yoga tutor, author of Whirlpools, Yoga and the Balance of Life Chakras for Creativity offers a very comprehensive look at integrating yoga practice with the wisdom of the chakras in order to invite and develop more creativity in your life...Chakras for Creativity is a welcome addition to the bookshelf on creativity especially for those who prefer a physical approach.--Bethany Rivers, author of Fountain of Creativity and editor of As Above So Below online poetry magazine The book is clearly written from a great deal of knowledge and insight by someone who walks the talk. The contents, although profound, are very accessible and will be of great benefit to teachers and practitioners of both yoga and mindfulness as well as to creative people who may be struggling to give birth to new ideas...A generous, wise, and deeply helpful book.--Marilyn Buckham, yoga and mindfulness teacher Every page spills over with wisdom...This charming, friendly book will help anyone use the chakra model to better know themselves. It's not only a sweet guide to creativity, it's also a beautiful introduction to yoga. This is one to read straight through at first encounter, then revisit time and time again. I love this book!--Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT 500, author of Everyday Yoga and Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses In her inspiring and empowering new book, Jilly advocates an imaginative and playful approach to exploring the Chakras...Bespoke asana sequences, walking and writing meditations, sound, mantras, colours and mandalas all combine in an accessible, practical way, helping us to tap into the transformational power of these seven wheels of energy. In sharing her own honest and at times painful story, Jilly offers the universal possibility of healing. This we can all achieve by accessing our own creative vision, exploring, questioning, reflecting, and, above all, listening to our inner wisdom...This is a rich, stimulating and comforting resource and I recommend it wholeheartedly.--Judy Brenan, British Wheel of Yoga teacher Jilly presents a clear, fresh perspective on the chakras, just what you would expect from a creativity-based book. This is a brilliant, go-to guide for everyone who wants to develop their creative gifts and abilities...It is beautifully written and organized in an easy-to-follow manner. Highly recommended.--Julie Lusk, author of Yoga Nidra Meditations Inspiring and informative, Chakras for Creativity is a treasure chest of exercises guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing...I'll be keeping this book on my desk so I can reach for it when I'm in need of a boost.--Sally-Anne Lomas, artist, filmmaker, and author of Live Like Your Head's on Fire

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JILLY SHIPWAY (Shropshire, UK) is a qualified British Wheel of Yoga teacher with more than thirty years of teaching experience. She has been studying the chakras and integrating chakra-inspired yoga practices into her own home practice and her yoga classes and courses for more than twenty years. Jilly regularly contributes to various publications including Yoga Magazine, Spirit and Destiny magazine, Llewellyn s Witches Datebook, and Llewellyn s Moon Sign Book. www.ChakrasForCreativity.com

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