A Truth About the Chakras By Tantrik Studies

[Manuel Tavares]

A Truth About the Chakras
By Tantrik Studies
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/09/truth-about-chakras.html

Does the modern chakra system actually have ancient roots?

Over the past hundred plus years, the concept of the chakras, or subtle energy centers within the body, has seized the Western imagination more than virtually any other teaching from the yoga tradition. Yet, as with most other concepts deriving from Sanskrit sources, the West (barring a handful of scholars) has almost totally failed to come to grips with what the chakras meant in their original context and how one is supposed to practice with them. This post seeks to rectify that situation to some extent.

Here are the six most important things you never knew about the chakras:

1. There’s not just one chakra system in the original tradition, there are many
So many! The theory of the subtle body and its energy centers called cakras (or padmas, ādhāras, lakṣyas, etc.) comes from the tradition of Tantrik Yoga, which flourished from 600-1300 CE, and is still alive today....+
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/09/truth-about-chakras.html