Chakras Flashcards

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Root Chakra

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First
Sanscrit: Muladhara

Location: tip of the tailbone or perineum
Element: Earth
Color: Red

General description: seat of survival + self preservation, the right to exist, the need to acquire and possess (the ego

Work Organ: anus
Sense Organ: nose

Asana supports: grounded feet or seated postures - malasana, forward fold, fierce, Warriors I, II, III, Mountain, easy seat

Major theme for this chakra: grounding

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Sacral Chakra

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Second
Svadisthana Chakra
Location: Sacrum, genitals, hips
Element: Water
Color: Orange

General description:

Work Organ: genitals
Sense Organ: tongue

Asana Supports: hip openers - goddess, happy baby, pigeon, lunches, legs up the wall, bridge, high lunge, low lunge, anything that his undulating, sahaja

Major theme for this chakra:

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Naval Chakra

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Third Chakra
Sanskrit: Manipura
Location:
Element: Fire
Color: Yellow

General description:

Work Organ:
Sense Organ:

Asana Supports: twists, fierce, boat, crow, arm balances, anything that stretches the belly

Major theme for this chakra:

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Heart Chakra

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Fourth Chakra
Sanskrit: Anahata
Location:
Element: Air
Color: Green

General description

Work Organ: Hands
Sense Organ: Skin

Asana Supports: back bends, shoulder openers, moving beween extension and flexion in the spine, lateral side bends, twists

Major theme for this chakra

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Throat Chakra

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Fifth Chakra
Sanskrit: Vishudda
Location:
Element: space/ether
Color: Blue

General description: chakra of self expression, purity/satya, doorway to liberation, center of communication and truth, right to speak and express oneself

Work Organ: Vocal Chords
Sense Organ: Ears

Asana Supports: Plow, fish, bridge, cat, camel, should & chin stand, neck stretches

Major theme for this chakra

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Third Eye Chakra

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Sixth Chakra
Sanscrit: Ajna

Location: centered at space between/right above eyebrows or at the center of the prefrontal cortex
Element: ether/space
Color: Indigo

General description: intuitive mind, “I know,” inner awareness, relationship with reality, penetrating insight

Work Organ: the mind
Sense Organ: the mind

Asana Supports: child’s pose, easy seat, prostration, any mudra to the third eye

Major theme for this chakra: associated with the ability to see) not just with one’s eyes but beyond. The vertical eye of wisdom

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Crown Chakra

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Seventh
Sanscrit: Sahasrara

Location: Top of the head
Element: ether/ space
Color: violet

General description: portal of interconnection to the divine and to the Self as expressed through others; center of realization, transcendence, actualization of oneness

Associated with everything so no work or sense organs

Asana Supports: headstands

Major theme for this chakra: oneness; you are one + the same with everything and everyone around you

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