Chakra Yoga: Class #7 (Crown)
About Sahasrara
- Colour: PURPLE
- Sanskrit Name: Sahasrara (thousandfold)
- Element: Consciousness
- Location: Top of head, cerebral cortex
- Glands: Pituitary
- Purpose: Understanding
- Base Issues: Cognition, awareness
- Orientation to Self: Self-knowledge
- Identity: Universal
- Right: To know
- Demon: Attachment
- Addictions: Religion, spiritual practices
- Developmental Stage: Adulthood
- Mantra: No seed sound, resonant sound Nngg (as in sing)
- Hindu Deities: Shiova, Ama-kala (upward moving shakti), Varuna
- Yoga Path: Jnana yoga, or meditation
Balanced Characteristics
- Ability to perceive, analyze, and assimilate information
- Intelligent, thoughtful, aware
- Open-minded
- Spiritually connected
- Wisdom and mastery
- Broad understanding
Healing Practices for the Crown Chakra
- Re-establish physical and emotional connections (in cases of excess)
- Re-establish spiritual connection (in cases of deficiency)
- Spiritual discipline, meditation
- Psychotherapy such as examining one’s belief system, developing inner witness, working with the higher power
Deficiency in the Crown Chakra
- Spiritual cynicism, learning difficulties, rigid belief systems, apathy
Excess in the Crown Chakra
- Overintellectualization, spiritual addiction, confusion, disassociation from body
Judith, Anodea. Eastern Body, Western Mind. Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 2004.
Judith, Anodea. Wheels of Life. Woodbury: Llewellyn Publications, 1987.
