The Chakras are often brought into conversation in the wellness world - if its a yoga flow aimed at balancing them, a healing chakra visualisation or even a chakra inspired bracelet intended to help align your chakras!

It is so worth getting to know your chakras - its such a golden knowledge to hold, through getting to know them and their alignment to your feelings and physical world you can truly find balance with your emotional andspiritual needs.

And boy is it a pleasure getting to know them!

So lets go…..

What …

Simply put, a chakra is a virtual spinning disk, wheel or vortex. In ancient Eastern medicine, there are 7 of these spinning energy centre’s in and around your body, beginning at the very base of the spine and running up the centre of your body to the top of your head.

But to put it visually, the Chakras are the links between the physical body and the energy around us, the interface between them. If you think of the energy running through us like an electrical current. To plug a laptop in to the mains you need a transformer to convert the current into a form it can use to charge. The chakras are like the transformer’s that connect our physical self (the laptop) with the non physical layers in and around us.

Another great analogy is to think of the chakras like windows in a house - portals between your physical body and your energetic body. Windows are essential in a house, letting in light and air, without them a house couldn’t be a home. If you blocked them up the house would become dark, stuffy and damp. If you left the windows open all the time you wouldn’t feel protected or in heavy wind, wouldn’t feel comfortable.

Healthy chakras, like healthy windows need a good clean every now and then so they can let the energy flow in and out.

Each chakra is associated with a specific colour, vibration, symbol and connections.