History of the Chakra System

Now that the chakras have become New Age parlance, there are many interpretations of their meaning and function being bandied about. While this popularity is making the chakras a household word, it is also spreading a lot of confusing, conflicting, and often erroneous information. It is important to realize the chakras come from an ancient tradition, which many New Age teachers have barely explored. Here is a brief summary of the development of the chakras historically.

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Partner Heart Sequence

These are the yoga sequences Anodea uses in some of her workshops. Download the PDF file of Partner Heart Sequence

Chakras and Asana Practice

The Chakra System originated within the yoga traditions of India, most specifically the Tantric period, circa 500 – 1000 AD. Therefore, yoga is an ideally designed practice to not only train your mind and body, but to access your chakras. The word yoga means yoke or union, and one can see how the chakra system represents the structural aspect of that yoke — the means through which mind and body, mortal and divine, connect. In that way yoga is the prime tool for accessing this sacred architecture of the soul.

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Fostering Healthy Chakras in Children

Hope for a better future depends on raising children without the traumas and abuses that plague so many people struggling through recovery today. These abuses often occurred at the hands of well-meaning but ignorant parents, many of whom were simply responding from their own unhealed wounds, wounds they had received from the previous generation, which may have been passed on through family and culture for many generations before that. As adults today undergo the difficult journey of healing these wounds, they understandably want to avoid at all costs, inflicting similar difficulties upon their own children.

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Shiva/Shakti: A Tantric Wedding

Artwork by Will Zero

This is an invitation to a very special ceremony. All the Hindu gods have been invited, and you – even as a mortal – are invited too. Would you like to come? Let me tell you all about it.

It is a wedding of deities, old as time itself, perhaps even the wedding of your very first ancestors. It is also a multiple marriage (downright polyamorous, you might say) – a marriage between chaos and order, mind and body, soul and spirit, anima and animus, as well as of many goddesses and gods, as all the goddesses are aspects of the divine mother, Mahadevi, who is the source of all. …

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Bridge to the Future – 7 keys

Seven Principles for Personal and Planetary Healing

by Anodea Judith

Keynote Speech: GARDEN OF HEALING, Irvine, CA October 18, 2002

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Chakras and Illness

CHART OF COMMON PHYSICAL AILMENTS AND THEIR POSSIBLE CHAKRA ORIENTATION

One of the most common questions asked from workshops and lectures is, “I have this or that ailment, what chakra is that?”

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Coming of Age in the Heart

The six-pointed star, made of two interlacing equilateral triangles, is the central image within the lotus of the heart chakra. The appearance of this symbol within the astrological configuration of January 23, 1997 may have much significance in terms of socio-cultural planetary changes occurring at this time. The following is a further explanation of the chakras, their evolutionary significance, and the meaning of the heart chakra in particular.

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