Chakras: Your Inner Map of Harmony

Discover the seven chakras, their location, mudras and yoga poses. Learn how to care for your body's energy every day and when to be careful.

Harmony massage Wioletta Soliwoda

10/2/2026

Chakras: Your Inner Map of Harmony

Discover the seven energy centres of your body, learn how to recognise their imbalance, and find simple ways to care for them every day.

Do you have days when nothing specific has happened, yet you still feel out of balance? A throat tight for no reason, a head full of thoughts that will not settle, or a sudden lack of confidence before an important conversation. The body often signals something that cannot be named in a single word.

In the Indian tradition, in yoga and ayurveda, these signals have been described for centuries through chakras: seven main energy centres arranged along the spine, from its base all the way to the crown of the head. This is not medical knowledge or a scientifically proven theory, just a tradition of working with body and mind, from which many women draw simple, practical tools for returning to balance every day. In this article I show you what each chakra is, what it says about your wellbeing, and how to start working with them, even if you are hearing about this for the first time.

What are chakras?

Chakra in Sanskrit means wheel or vortex. According to the yoga tradition, life energy flows through the body, and chakras are the places where this energy gathers and spreads further. Each of the seven main chakras has its own place in the body, a colour, an element, and an area of life that it is said to govern in this tradition.

You do not need to believe in it the way you believe in physics for it to work in your favour. It is enough to treat the chakras as a map: points in the body worth pausing at for a moment to ask yourself what you actually feel.

What chakras do we have and what do they govern?

Going from the base of the spine up to the crown of the head:

- Root chakra (Muladhara), red. Base of the spine. Governs the sense of safety and stability, how firmly you feel the ground beneath your feet.

- Sacral chakra (Svadhishthana), orange. Lower abdomen. Connected to creativity, sensuality and your relationship with your own emotions.

- Solar plexus chakra (Manipura), yellow. Upper abdomen. In the yoga tradition, this is where confidence and willpower live.

- Heart chakra (Anahata), green. Centre of the chest. Governs love, compassion and the ability to build close relationships.

- Throat chakra (Vishuddha), blue. Throat. Connected to self expression: whether you say what you really think.

- Third eye chakra (Ajna), indigo. Between the eyebrows. In the yoga tradition, this is the place of intuition and inner insight.

- Crown chakra (Sahasrara), violet. Crown of the head. Associated with a sense of meaning, calm and a broader perspective on life.

Each of these seven chakras is also linked to specific yoga poses and mudras, meaning special hand positions. In the graphic attached to this post you will find all seven, together with example poses and gestures.

How do you recognise a chakra imbalance?

According to tradition, each chakra can be linked to signs that may point to a blockage:

- constant tension in the body and difficulty letting go, even after rest

- a block in self expression: you hold your emotions in your throat, literally and figuratively

- a lack of energy to act, or on the contrary, chaos and irritability without a clear cause

- difficulty focusing, a sense that your thoughts are running off in ten directions at once

- tense neck and shoulders, the places where the body most often stores stress

Treat this as a starting point for observing yourself, not as a diagnosis. If something on this list has sounded familiar for a while, it is worth asking yourself which area of your life feels most out of balance today.

How to care for your chakras every day?

1. Choose one chakra that interests you most today, instead of trying to work on all seven at once.

2. Try the yoga pose linked to it from the graphic, holding it calmly for a few breaths.

3. Add the mudra, meaning the hand gesture, and sit with it in silence for a moment, watching your breath.

4. If you use music or sounds for relaxation, you can reach for the solfeggio frequencies linked to a given chakra: this is a sound work tradition, not a scientific finding, but many people find it helpful.

5. Come back to this consistently, ideally a few minutes a day, rather than one long session once a month.

Who should be careful?

Some of the poses in the graphic are inverted poses, such as headstand or shoulder stand. Skip them if you are pregnant, have high blood pressure, glaucoma, a recent neck injury, or heart problems. If in doubt, ask a doctor or physiotherapist first, before trying on your own.

Poses such as bow or plow strongly engage the spine, so if you have chronic back pain it is better to practise them under the guidance of someone who knows yoga, or to skip them entirely. Mudras, meaning the hand gestures alone, are safe for everyone.

Chakras and massage: what do I do with this in the studio?

Working with the body's energy is something I do in the studio every day, just in a different language than the yoga tradition. A Tibetan singing bowl massage uses sound and vibration for deep relaxation, and udwartana, an ayurvedic body massage, works with the whole body in a rhythm that, in the eastern tradition, is meant to restore the flow of energy. It is a natural complement to the work you can start on your own at home with the poses and mudras from the graphic.

Chakras are not knowledge you need to learn all at once. It is enough to start paying attention to what is happening in particular places in your body, and to treat this map as a starting point for a conversation with yourself. Sometimes one pose, one hand gesture and a few calm breaths are enough to feel the difference.

If you feel your body needs more than a home practice, I invite you to the studio. Together we will find the treatment that answers what you need most today.

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