A Yogis Guide to Chakra Meditation

There are many books on chakras, but their focus is usually an attempt to integrate the chakras with modern psychological theories. A Yogis Guide to Chakra Meditation presents chakra meditation as a specific example of the ancient yogic tradition. The most respected text in the yogic tradition was written by the sage Patanjali and is entitled The Yoga Sutras. Scholars debate its antiquity, but it was written approximately 2000 years ago. Because an overview of Patanjalis Yoga Sutras is standard fare in yoga teacher training programs, I have presented chakra meditation as a specific example of Patanjalis more general description of yoga. I hope that a description of chakra meditation through Patanjalis lens will make it easier for yoginis coming to this material for the first time. All yoga teacher training programs include an overview of Patanjalis Yoga Sutras, but these sutras are notoriously difficult to understand, and have from ancient times required a commentary to clarify them.