Michelle S Fondin - Chakra Healing for Vibrant Energy: Exploring Your 7 Energy Centers with Mindfulness, Yoga, and Ayurveda

Praise for The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda by Michelle S. Fondin

Explores the spokes of the Ayurvedic wheel, its physical, emotional, relational, environmental, occupational, and spiritual components, and supplies advice as to healthy practices for each dosha.... A strong beginning text for those seeking wellness beyond the bounds of traditional medicine.

Library Journal

The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda is beautifully written, comprehensive, and real-world! Michelle Fondin brilliantly guides the reader through a transformational journey and teaches us to roll smoothly through lifes twists and turns with a powerful and easily accessible game plan.

davidji, bestselling author of Secrets of Meditation and Destressifying

Extraordinarily well written, informed, and informative. Thoroughly reader friendly in organization and presentation.

Midwest Book Review

Having actively participated in her own healing by following the principles of Ayurveda, Michelle Fondin is a living example of the beauty and benefits of Ayurveda. In her new book, she outlines a holistic approach with which we can keep all areas of our lives healthy and balanced. Simple yet profound loved it!

Lissa Coffey, bestselling author of Whats Your Dosha, Baby?

Very accessible... Fondin imparts substantial knowledge in such distilled and meaningful ways that practicing Ayurveda becomes more sensible and easier to navigate than ever.

Whole Life Times

The brief explanation of Ayurveda, covering seeking balance over imbalance, the stages of various maladies, and a Checklist for Health segues to advice for living ones dharma or life path. Chapters on physical, spiritual, and emotional health, healing wounds from the past, and maintaining healthy relationships, among other subjects, contain guidelines and exercises that, along with recommended resources, make this a comprehensive guide.

Booklist

Michelle Fondin makes the esoteric and ancient science of Ayurveda accessible to all readers who simply have a desire to improve their health. Her book will introduce you to Ayurveda and supply you with simple, practical, and creative ways to improve every aspect of your health.

from the foreword by Sudha Bulusu and Dr. Shekhar Annambhotla, founder of Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America

Includes a comprehensive set of self-assessment questions that allow readers to zero in on their body types specific needs and best practices for eating plans, addiction treatment, detoxification, and techniques for improving relationships.... The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda brings control and responsibility back to you.

New Thought

Also by Michelle S. Fondin

The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda: An Easy Guide to a Healthy Lifestyle

Copyright 2018 by Michelle S. Fondin

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

The material in this book is intended for education. It is not meant to take the place of diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical practitioner or therapist. No expressed or implied guarantee of the effects of the use of the recommendations can be given or liability taken.

Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

First printing, April 2018

ISBN 978-1-60868-534-9

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-535-6

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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This book is dedicated to the loving memory of two of my greatest teachers of all time, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and Dr. David Simon. I felt you were both with me as I wrote these pages.

I also dedicate this book to all my teachers who taught me throughout the years at the Chopra Center, including Dr. Deepak Chopra, Davidji, and Claire Diab.

CONTENTS

I n 1999, at age twenty-eight, I learned I had thyroid cancer. Before this, the word chakra had little meaning to me. But suddenly, with this shocking diagnosis, my search for healing rapidly expanded. Perhaps through intuition or past life experience, I had a deep, driving desire to leave no stone unturned when it came to my healing.

I began to search for ways to get to the root cause of why I got cancer in the first place. I knew that if I didnt uproot the disease at its source, I would surely get it again. And in my late twenties, that wasnt an option since I had always planned on living to reach one hundred years old.

In my book The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda: An Easy Guide to a Healthy Lifestyle, I outline the many different discoveries that led to my healing. Allopathic (conventional) medicine played a role, but I intuitively knew that the answers lay in alternative healing modalities. During my exploration, I sat among a pile of library books on alternative medicine and opened up to a life-changing page in Dr. Christiane Northrups book Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom. The page spoke about the chakras and exploring healing through them. I say it was life-changing because as I was modifying all aspects of my life, an examination of my chakras could now be a focal point for my research into why I got sick.

Changing my diet, increasing my exercise regimen, adding meditation, and improving my relationships all helped in my journey to healing. However, awareness of the chakras gave me an advantage over all other patients suffering from thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases.

In exploring the thyroid gland and its location in the body, and in learning about the fifth chakra, I started making connections between my current illness and the first twenty-eight years of my life. I looked back and found that most of my illnesses in childhood and young adulthood revolved around the area of the throat. When I was very young I frequently suffered from strep throat or tonsillitis, so much so that doctors repeatedly urged my mother to allow me to have surgery to remove my tonsils. My mother, who was afraid of me going under anesthesia, never agreed to have them taken out.

Then at age seventeen I got mononucleosis. My tonsils were so swollen that they touched in the middle of my throat, closing off my windpipe. I had an abscess in my throat and couldnt breathe. It was so severe that I had to have surgery just so they could open it up to allow me to breathe again.

As I pondered those times with all the throat infections, it became clear to me that something was very wrong and literally blocked in the area of my throat. One of the things the fifth chakra is responsible for is our verbal expression. For me, the illnesses meant exploring why I couldnt properly express myself. I had to ask the questions, What is holding me back from speaking my truth? and Why do I feel I cant speak up?