Through a questionnaire about physical, emotional and mental states, the activity level of all seven major chakras is assessed (Muladhara to Sahasrara). Each chakra receives an openness/blockage score, description of current state and causes of imbalance. The analysis recommends specific practices for each chakra: affirmations, colors, crystals, sounds, yoga poses and dietary guidelines for restoring harmonious energy flow.
Where it comes from
Chakras come from tantric traditions in India, appearing in texts from around the eighth century AD onward, with the number and placement varying between schools — some describe four centres, some five, some many more. The seven-centre model familiar in the West was fixed by a single book: Arthur Avalon's The Serpent Power of 1919, a translation of two sixteenth-century Sanskrit texts. The pairing of each chakra with a colour of the rainbow was added later still, in the 1970s, largely through the writing of Christopher Hills. It is a modern arrangement built on older material, and worth knowing as such.
How the method works
The seven centres run along the spine. Muladhara at the base is read for safety and the material ground; Svadhisthana below the navel for appetite and creation; Manipura at the solar plexus for will and self-assertion; Anahata at the heart for attachment and grief; Vishuddha at the throat for speech and the things left unsaid; Ajna between the brows for perception and judgement; Sahasrara at the crown for meaning. An assessment asks about the life areas tied to each centre and reads a centre as blocked, weak or overactive from the answers rather than from any measurement.
What a reading covers
A reading gives the state of each of the seven centres, which of them is furthest out of balance and how that shows up in ordinary life — a weak throat centre as agreeing to things you did not want, an overactive solar plexus as pushing where no push was needed. It ends with practices tied to each centre: breathing, posture, what to attend to.
Common questions
- Are chakras anatomical?
- No. They are not organs and do not appear in anatomy. They are a map of inner experience, and a chakra reading is a description of how you are living, not a medical finding. It is not a substitute for seeing a doctor.
- Why do some traditions count more than seven?
- Because the number was never fixed. Different tantric lineages describe different sets, and some add centres in the palms, the feet or above the head. Seven is the arrangement that reached the West, not the only one that exists.
- How long does rebalancing take?
- No tradition gives a fixed period, and any service that promises one is overstating. The practices are daily ones, and the descriptions of change are gradual.