Brief Description

By: Psyche

I've composed a brief description of each chakra, written in the order they would physically appear if a person was upright. They are generally 'worked' starting at the bottom, and going upward.

The word in green represents the Sanskrit name, in itallics is the direct English translation, then the common English name, the location, the layer of the subtle body, spiritual references, the element, or state of being, the colour, and the gland or organ represented.

Sahasrara

Thousandfold

Crown Centre

Top of the head, just above the head

Bodyless body

True Self

Pure consciousness

Violet or white

Related to the pineal gland

Anja

Knowing

Brow Centre

Between the eyebrows, the third eye

Casual body

Contains the cause for evolution

Pure mind

Indigo or violet

Related to the pituitary gland

Visuddi

Purify

Throat Centre

Throat

Higher mental body

Sensitivity, Creativity, Intuition

Ether

Bright blue

Related to the thyroid gland

Anahata

Unstruck

Mental body

Heart Centre

Heart, centre of breastbone

To know something by heart

Air

Emerald green

Related to the thymus

Manipura

Lusterous jewel

Solar Plexus

Astral body

True self

Fire

Yellow

Related to the pancreas (islets of Langerhans)

Svadisthana

Sweetness

Sacral Chakra

Belly, below navel

Etheric body

True Self

Water

Orange

Related to the adrenal gland

Muladhara

Root support

Base Chakra

Base of spine

Physical body

Earth

Red

Kundalini energy

Relating to the gonads