Basic Summary of Seven Major Chakras
Tibetan medicine works with a 5 chakra system: Head, Throat, Heart, Naval and Genital chakras. For general work with people, for those not following a Tibetan path, I use the a seven chakra system.
Ken Wilber describes chakras as “contain(ing) gross, subtle and causal energies and their correlative consciousness states”*, a necessary delineation for energetic assessment and healing. All information regarding the chakras therefore, should be considered within this framework, and should be noted, is rarely taken into consideration in the vast majority of literature on the topic.
“the chakra system is both beautifully simple and bewilderingly complex, but in the last analysis, it is the simplest model that can adequately handle three things that we know exist: states of consciousness, stages of consciousness, and their associated energies, all of which can rather seamlessly be woven together with such a model.“
*Towards a Comprehensive Theory of of Subtle Energy, p. 58
For practical application, what is presented here is a summary of the seven major chakras.
