Chakras & Subtle Body

Learn about energy centers and the subtle body systems in spiritual traditions.

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Chakra: in Tantric and Yogic frameworks, a subtle energy centre along the body's vertical axis, traditionally numbered s...

The first chakra located at the base of the spine, governing survival instincts, physical security, grounding, and the c...

The second chakra located below the navel, governing creativity, sexuality, emotions, pleasure, and the ability to exper...

The third chakra located in the upper abdomen, governing personal power, self-esteem, confidence, willpower, and the abi...

Heart Chakra (Anahata): the fourth of the seven principal chakras in the Tantric scheme, located at the centre of the ch...

The Throat Chakra (Sanskrit *Viśuddha*, "especially pure") is the fifth centre in the standard seven-chakra Hindu Tantri...

The seventh chakra at the top of the head, governing spiritual connection, cosmic consciousness, enlightenment, and the ...

The vital life force energy that permeates all living things according to yogic and Ayurvedic traditions, absorbed throu...

The Third Eye (Sanskrit *ājñā*, "command") is the sixth chakra in the standard seven-chakra Hindu Tantric system, locate...

The network of subtle energy channels through which prana flows in the body, with traditional texts describing 72,000 na...

Dormant spiritual energy believed to reside at the base of the spine, symbolized as a coiled serpent.

Chakra balancing is the practice of restoring alignment across the seven main energy centers of the subtle body — root t...

Chakra colors are a set of color correspondences assigned to the seven major chakras in the modern Western system: red (...

A blocked chakra, in Hindu Tantric and contemporary New Age frameworks, is one of the seven main energy centers in the s...

Chakra stones are specific crystals assigned to each of the seven main chakras based on color correspondence and, in som...

Chi (also written qi or ch'i) is the vital life force that, in Chinese thought, flows through all living things and unde...

Aura Colors: the belief, central to Theosophical and New Age traditions, that the luminous field surrounding a person di...

Kundalini Awakening is the activation and upward movement of kundalini — a dormant energy described in Hindu Tantra as c...