This can seem uncomfortable or unnatural at first but it will do wonders for the emotions attached to the Anahata chakra. Since most people collapse their chest on an average day, opening your heart chakra through yoga actually helps to do the opposite, to allow your chest to expand. Translation: Unhurt How Does Yoga Help Balance the Heart Chakra?Īs with all chakras, yoga has many poses that help to open each chakra but with opening the heart chakra many of the poses also open others at the same time. Other names: Fourth chakra, Anahata chakra Emotions related to this chakra are attachment, rejection and fear. Meaning: The heart chakra governs your love, compassion and understanding for yourself and for others.

Location: Centre of your chest, between your breastbone and spine This chakra is also the middle chakra, the connection between the lower, physical chakras and the upper, spiritual chakras, so it’s a great one to get balanced before continuing your spiritual journey. Most people tend to hunch over, whether it’s from driving, working at a desk, lack of confidence or any combination, your heart chakra is typically collapsed and these yoga poses to open your heart will help you to feel more love, compassion and understanding. Luckily you won’t find a shortage of yoga to open the heart chakra and you’re definitely already doing some in your practice!

When your heart chakra is balanced you can feel a deep sense of love, compassion, kindness and even spirituality.īut when this chakra is unbalanced it can spark feelings of unworthiness, fear, being indecisive and can even cause physical manifestations of disease, such as heart disease. This includes love for yourself as well as for others. The heart chakra is, you guessed it, all about love.

Heart chakra yoga sequence