And yet the new form
of existence, the «
spiritual body» (that is, a body made for life on a different
plane of existence, life with the risen Christ), is not entirely unrelated to the body
of flesh and blood.
They do not operate on different
planes of existence, with the heavenly city
spiritual in the sense
of having no earthly embodiment, and the earthly city simply equivalent to any temporal project or endeavor.
While teaching Sun Salutations, she speaks liberally
of concepts like the chakras (the energetic wheels that represent our potential for physical manifestation, sensuality, power, love, com — munication, intuition, and
spiritual connection) and the koshas (the five «sheaths» that represent our
existence on the
planes of the physical body, the energy body, the mental body, the wisdom body, and the bliss body).