There are many books on chakras, but their focus is usually an attempt to integrate the chakras with modern psychological theories.
"A Yogi's Guide to Chakra Meditation" presents chakra meditation as a specific example of Patanjali's famous ‘Eight Limbs of Yoga."
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This essay describes the chakras and their importance when trying to raise our consciousness to the higher levels of spiritual reality that lie behind this physical world. It outlines the use of breathing techniques and subtle muscular contractions called bandhas and mudras. Breathing, bandhas, and mudras, when used together, help a yogini, a practitioner of yoga, learn to control the life-force in her body, which is called Prana.
*The latest version of this essay was completed during the month of November 2023. I have amended my description of the Granthis on page 9. And I have reordered and simplified the instructions on pranayama, starting on page 16.
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