Chakra Meditation with Mudra and Mantra

Introduction:
Within our bodies there are focal points of energy that we use, whether consciously or
unconsciously, to affect reality and allow us to fully experience and realize events that unfold
before us. These focal points are called Chakras. Chakras are located in important parts of your
body such as your head or heart. Any organs within the area of these Chakras are used to
control; and are, therefore, directly affected by the properties of that Chakra.
Understanding the Seven Chakras:
1. Root Chakra: This is the physical layer.
Mudra for Root Chakra: Let the tips of your thumb and index finger
touch.
Concentrate on the Root chakra at the spot in between the genitals and
the anus. Chant the sound LAM.
2. Sacral Chakra: This is the emotional layer.
Mudra for Sacral Chakra: Put your hands in your lap, palms
up, on top of each other. Keep the left hand underneath and its palm
touching the back of the fingers of the right hand. The tips of the
thumbs touch gently. Concentrate on the Sacral chakra at the sacral
bone (on the lower back). Chant the sound VAM.
3. Manipura Chakra / Navel/ Solar Plexus: This is the mental or
intellectual layer.
Mudra for Solar Plexus: Put your hands before your stomach,
slightly below your solar plexus. Let the fingers join at the tops, all
pointing away from you. Cross the thumbs. It is important to straighten
the fingers. Concentrate on the Navel chakra located on the spine, a
bit above the level of the navel. Chant the sound RAM.

The Solar Plexus Chakra is located just above the navel and below the chest. This
Chakra is a focus point for our force of will and our sense of transformation. Concentration and
control of our personal energies originate from this point. One’s sense of power and authority,
as well as self-control and discipline of the ego converge here. This Chakra can be used to
sense the very use of one’s internal energies to affect what is outside the body.
4. Anahata Chakra/Heart/ Cardiac Plexus: This is the astral layer.
Mudra for Heart chakra: Sit cross-legged. Let the tips of your
index finger and thumb touch. Put your left hand on your left knee and
your right hand in front of the lower part of your breast bone (so a bit
above the solar plexus). Concentrate on the Heart chakra at the spine,
level with the heart. Chant the sound YAM.
The Heart Chakra is located at the center of the chest and is the
focus for love and understanding. Feelings that stem from this love such as
forgiveness, compassion, balance and harmony radiate from this point.
This Chakra also nurtures the rarified feeling of unconditional or divine
love, love that goes beyond the physical.
5. Vishuddhi Chakra/ Throat or Pharyngeal Plexus: This is the etheric
layer Mudra for the Throat Chakra: Cross your fingers on the
inside of your
hands, without the thumbs. Let the thumbs touch at the tops, and pull
them slightly up. Concentrate on the Throat chakra at the base of the
throat. Chant the sound HAM.
The Throat Chakra is located in the throat area between one’s
chin and the top of the sternum. This Chakra is linked to one’s powers
of communication. Through this Chakra, one can realize truth and
knowledge; honesty, kindness and wisdom and how these elements
can be conveyed through thoughtful speech.
6. Ajna Chakra/ Cavernous Plexus/Third Eye: The "Third Eye" is the celestial layer.
Mudra for Third Eye Chakra: Put your hands before the lower
part of your breast. The middle fingers are straight and touch at the
tops, pointing forward. The other fingers are bended and touch at the
upper two phalanges. The thumbs point towards self and touch at the
tops of each other. Concentrate on the Third Eye chakra slightly above
the point between the eyebrows. Chant the sound OM or AUM.
 The Brow Chakra is located in the forehead, right above our
eyes. This is also known as the region of the "Third Eye" in Buddhist
and other belief systems.
This Chakra is related to our perception beyond the physical realm. Intuition, insight,
imagination and clairvoyance can all be associated with this Chakra. One can also focus their
realization of their own soul, divine wisdom and peace of mind in this point.
7. Sahasrara Chakra/ Crown Chakra: This is the ketheric layer
Mudra for Crown Chakra: Put your hands before your stomach. Let
the ring fingers point up, touching at their tops. Cross the rest of your
fingers, with the left thumb underneath the right. Concentrate on the
Crown chakra at the top of your head. Chant the sound NG.
Warning: don't use this meditation for the Crown chakra while you don't
have a strong Root chakra (you need a strong foundation first).

The Crown Chakra is located at the very top of the head. As one might guess, this
Chakra is associated directly with dealings of the mind and spirit. This Chakra is deeply tied to
the exploration of one’s consciousness and place in space and time. Oneness with the universe,
your spirit and will, inspiration, divine wisdom… all the things that deal with the Higher Self are
rooted in this Chakra.
CHAKRA TABLE:

Seed
Chakra / Prana / Kosha / Element /
Location Syllable / Organ of Action Organ or sense
Plexus Air Sheath Color
Mantra

Muladhara/
Base of Apana Anna Maya/
Coccygeal Lam Elimination smell Earth/ Red
the spine Vaayu Food Sheath
Plexus
Swadisthana/ Below Vyana Anna Maya/
Vam Procreation taste Water/ Orange
Sacral Plexus Navel Vaayu Food Sheath

Pranamaya/
Manipura/ Above Samana
Ram Emotional Movement seeing Fire/ Yellow
Solar Plexus Navel Vaayu
Sheath
Anahata/ Prana Manomaya/ Grasping/
Heart Yam feeling Air/ Green
Cardiac Plexus Vaayu Mind Sheath Holding

Vijnanamaya
Vishuddhi/
Pharyngeal Throat Ham Udana / Speaking hearing speech ether (akasha)/
Vaayu Intellectual Blue
Plexus
Sheath
Vijnanamaya
Ajna/
/
Cavernous Third Eye Aum Mind Mind Indigo
Intellectual
Plexus
Sheath

Sahasrara/ Anandamaya
Cavernous Crown Silence / Consciousness Consciousness Violet
Plexus Bliss Sheath

General Procedure for Chakra Meditation

Chakra Meditation - Sequentially move through the chakras in the following sequence.
1. Muladhara Chakra Meditation: Bring your attention to the perineum, the flat space between
the anus and the genital area. Take several seconds to allow your attention to find the
space, and to get settled into it. Allow the mantra Lam to arise repeatedly in your mind field,
silently. Allow it to repeat at its own natural speed. You may find that it comes 5-10 times
and wants to pause, or you might find it wants to come continuously. If it pauses, allow it to
 return in its own time. The mantra may move quickly or slowly. In any case, keep your
attention on that space; this is very important. Allow your mind to naturally be aware of
earth, solidity, or form. Allow to come through your mind field the awareness of the
karmendriya (Organ of Action) of elimination (which operates throughout the body), and the
jnanendriya (Sense Organ) of smell.
2. Swadisthana Chakra Meditation: When you move your attention upwards towards the
second chakra, be mindful of the transition, of the motion of attention and the nature of the
shift of energetic, emotional, and mental experience. Allow your attention to naturally find
the location of the second chakra. It is important to note that the actual chakra is in the back,
along the subtle spine called sushumna, although we usually experience it in the front. Allow
the attention to rest where it naturally falls, probably in the front, but be mindful from time to
time that the chakra is actually in the back. Allow the mantra Vam to arise and repeat
itself, at its own speed, naturally coming and going. Allow the awareness of water to arise,
and come to see how this has to do with allow forms of flow or fluidity, whether relating to
energy, physical, emotional, or mental. Explore the awareness of the karmendriya of
procreation and the jnanendriya of tasting. Again, colors or sounds may or may not come
and go.
3. Manipura Chakra Meditation: Be aware of the transition as you move to the third chakra, at
the navel center, which is also actually along the sushumna channel. Allow the mantra Ram
to arise and repeat itself, at its natural speed. Keep attention in the space, whatever size at
which it is experienced. Be aware of the element of fire, and the many ways in which it
operates throughout the gross and subtle body from this center. Be aware of the
karmendriya of motion, and how motion itself happens in so many physical, energetic, and
mental ways. Be aware of the jnanendriya of seeing, which you will easily see as related to
fire and motion.
4. Anahata Chakra Meditation: Observe the transition as you move your attention to the fourth
chakra, the space between the breasts. Allow attention to become well seated there, and
then remember the vibration of the mantra Yam, allowing it to repeat at its own speed, while
being mindful of the feeling it generates. Be aware of the element of air, and notice how that
feels with the mantra. Notice how the element of air relates to the karmendriya of holding or
grasping, whether physically, energetically, mentally, or emotionally. Observe how these
relate to the jnanendriya of touching, and how that touching is very subtle in addition to
being a physical phenomenon.
5. Vishuddhi Chakra Meditation: Bring your attention to the space at the throat, the fifth chakra,
which is the point of emergence of space (which allows air, fire, water, and earth to then
emerge). In that space, be aware of the nature of space itself, allowing the mantra Ham to
arise and repeat itself, reverberating many times through the seemingly empty space in the
inner world. Awareness of the karmendriya of speech (actually, communication of any subtle
form) is allowed to be there, experiencing how that vibrates through space. The jnanendriya
of hearing is allowed to come, also seeing how it naturally aligns with space, speech, and
the vibration of mantra. Notice the fine, subtle feelings, which come with the experience.
6. Ajna Chakra Meditation: Gently, with full awareness, transition awareness to the seat of
mind at the space between the eyebrows, Ajna chakra. Allow the mantra OM to arise and
repeat itself, over and over, as slow waves of mantra, or as vibrations repeating so fast that
the many OMs merge into a continuous vibration. Be aware of how mind has no elements,
but is the source out of which space, air, fire, water, and earth emerge. Be aware of how this
space, this mind, itself, does no actions, but is the driving force of all of the karmendriyas of
speech, holding, moving, procreating, and eliminating. Be aware of how this chakra, this
mind, has no senses itself, but is the recipient of all of the information coming from hearing,
touching, seeing, tasting, and smelling, whether the source of this input is the sensations
from the external world, coming through the physical instruments, or coming from the inner
world of memories or subtle experience, presenting on the mental screen through the subtle
senses.
7. Sahasrara Chakra Meditation: Allow attention to move to the crown chakra, which has no
element (bhutas), no cognitive sense (jnanendriyas), no active means of expression
(karmendriyas), as it is the doorway to pure consciousness itself. Experience how this is the
source out of which mind emerges, after which emerge the five elements, the five cognitive
senses, and the five means of expression. The “mantra” (in its subtler, silent form) is that
silence (not mere quiet) out of which the rest have emerged. It is experienced as the silence
after a single OM, merging into objectless, sense-less awareness. Allow attention to rest in
that pure stillness, the emptiness that is not empty, which contains, and is, the pure potential
for manifestation, which has not manifested.