Susan Wright explains how to work with the chakra centers to heal unresolved psychic wounds. She identifies eight key developmental stages of life, from birth to old age/death, linking each stage to a particular chakra. Physical exercises and guided meditations are provided for each chakra, allowing practitioners a way to heal these locked-in traumas.
Sharing her own personal experiences, the author of The Chakras in Shamanic Practice shows readers how Shamanic practices can be used to heal wounds associated with trauma at each stage of development. Throughout our infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, we are meant to learn certain things. For instance from infancy to age six, we learn trust and require security. If for some reason adequate positive experiences are not provided, through abuse or neglect, then healthy development is suspended. Therefore, unless we address these needs, they will continue to affect our developmental growth, our relations, and ultimately our happiness.
In The Chakras in Shamanic Practice, the author adapts the various layers of human development to the chakras, including an eighth for ascendance. Thus, each chakra not only includes an associated color, quality, and location but is also linked to an age grade. At each stage, certain developmental aspects are addressed such as creativity, sensuality, compassion, forgiveness, intuition, integrity, etc.
Beyond this very informative aspect, each section also contains tasks. These exercises vary in essence from meditations and reconnecting with nature through rebirthing exercises and examining the past to connecting to others of like mind or becoming open to finding your own healing tools. The reader can easily adapt these resources to his or her own needs.
Mixes animism and shamanism with Christianity. I did not care for it. And takes away the true power that all humans possess.
Really New Agey. The author thinks diseases can be fixed with a positive attitude. That's not realistic.
At least for me this book was way too simple.
The Good:
Has yoga poses and photos so the reader can follow and perform yoga.
I'm also a Young Adult Librarian who works with tweens, teens, and young adults so this book is teaching me on how to approach every age group mentioned.
Overall, this book is great if you're a beginner. But I am not. I'm reading this book as a refresher. And I've been learning that I have healed myself because a lot of the exercises are easy or unnecessary for me. In that sense, I am very proud of myself for putting my self-growth first.
A very well written book simple yet full of newness for me a chakra enthusiast shamanic practioner. I bought a hard copy as well. Thank you Good Reads! 👍🙏