I can't believe it's already August! This month is super-charged with cosmic activity, so we're using our practice to activate and empower our voices.

When you empower your voice, you empower your life.

Together we'll be opening the upper chakras, and especially the throat, with various repetitive postures and mantra.

Sound and mantra are such powerful methods of growth and change because everything vibrates, and all vibration is sound. And mantra is sound within syllables that contains intention, intelligence, and purpose.

You're literally changing the shape of your cells with the sound of your own voice. How cool is that?!

JOURNAL PROMPTS

• Write about a time you stayed quiet when you really wanted to speak up. How did it feel? How would it have felt differently to speak up in that moment?

• What area of your life is asking for you to speak your truth more?

• Write down all the fears you have about speaking up. Speak them out loud, and then take that page and burn it in a fire-safe bowl. Watch until the paper is finished burning and dispose of the ashes either outside or down the toilet, watching as they float away from you.