What are the chakras?

There are seven chakras that run from the base of your spine to just above the top of your head.


Muladhara (Root Chakra)

Svadhisthana (Sacral or Pelvic Chakra)

Manipura (Navel Chakra)

Anahata (Heart Chakra)

Vishuddha (Throat Chakra)

Ajna (Third-Eye Chakra)

Sahasrara (Crown Chakra)


Muladhara (Root Chakra)

Element: Earth
Color: Red
Sound: Lam

What it is: The Muladhara chakra is found at the pelvic floor. It is our tap root and keeps us grounded into embodied reality, physically strong and secure. This chakra governs your family ties and feelings of survival, belonging, and guardedness. Your earliest memories are stored in the muladhara chakra, including whether or not your basic needs were met.


Svadhisthana (Sacral or Pelvic Chakra)

Element: Water
Color: Orange
Sound: Yam

What it is: This chakra is held in our sacrum. It corresponds with your reproductive and sexual organs, and represents fluidity, creativity, and fertility. You can take a literal interpretation of this, or associate this chakra with whether or not you feel deserving of a pleasurable, abundant, creative life.

Manipura (Navel Chakra)

Element: Fire
Color: Yellow
Sound: Ram

What is it: Located at the navel, this energy center, one of the chakras, is associated with the digestive system, the element of fire, and individual power and purpose. You’ve heard the expression “firing on all cylinders.” Think of this chakra as your body’s energy power-house.

Anahata (Heart Chakra)

Element: Air
Color: Green
Sound: Yam

What is it? The heart chakra is in the center of your chest. According to yoga tradition, it is the very “seat of the soul.” Associated with the lungs and the element of air, we can imagine the heart chakra as the meeting ground for the vast spectrum of our human emotional experience. The heart chakra has the capacity to radiate the highest aspects of the human being: compassion, unconditional love and total faith in the Divine. But it also has the capacity to radiate our deepest feelings of insecurity, disappointment, loneliness and despair.


Vishuddha (Throat Chakra)

Element: Ether
Color: Blue
Sound: Ham

What is it? Vishuddha is the energetic home of speech and hearing, and the endocrine glands that control metabolism. On a spiritual level, this chakra is all about expanding our conversation to the Divine.

Anja (Third-Eye Chakra)

Element: Light
Color: Indigo
Sound: OM

What is it? This chakra is is located eyebrow level mid-brain and is associated with your intuition, or sixth sense. It governs how the rest of the chakras function. It is the meeting point between two important energetic streams in the body, the ida and pingala nadis, and the place where the mind and the body converge.

Sahasrara (Crown Chakra)

Element: Cosmic Energy
Color: Violet or White
Sound: OM

What is it? The seventh of the chakras, the crown chakra, connects to beauty itself and the spiritual realm. It helps you to understand who you are beyond your physical self—that you are a spiritual being having a human experience. This chakra links us to everything that is beyond our ego. It is everything that lies beyond our linear intellect and personal needs, preferences and emotional experiences. It is the gateway and source point into enlightenment. The crown chakra is not located in the body but actually hovers above the crown of the head.

Cource https://www.yogajournal.com/practice/yoga-sequences-level/beginners-guide-chakras/