#subtlebody

[norayogini]

Welcome to day 2 of #TheChakrasChallenge! 🌀 The #SacralChakra, #swadhisthana, is your passion and pleasure centre and it is located in the pelvic area, in your genitals, kidney and bladder. it is related with water, and it’s the centre of feeling, emotion, pleasure, sensuality, intimacy, and connection. The energy of this chakra allows you to experience this moment as it is, in its own fullness. The main challenge for the second chakra is the conditioning of our society. We live in a society where feelings are not valued, where passion, and emotional reactions are being frowned upon. We are being taught not to "loose control". And we get disconnected from our bodies, our feelings: the sensation of guilt is responsible for its block. Well, today I ask you to be brave, to dream wild, to go for it, and experience your feelings to the point you are left breathless! #ekapadarajakapotasana or any #hipopener are perfect for this purpose, they are the center of emotions. Today’s affirmation: through my senses I am whole with the Earth and Sky! #experiencethismoment #iamwhole 🌀 Your mindful hosts: see them all for other beautiful poses! @norayogini @yogini_nerd @yogaromina @yoginijoy 🍃 The generous sponsors: @liforme 🎀 @vayumudra 🎉 @mymalagarden 🎊 @bergamotandme ✨ 🍁 The poses: 1st Chakra - Muladhara ✔️ 2nd Chakra - Swadhisthana ✔️ 3rd Chakra - Manipura - Core poses 4th Chakra - Anahata - Heart openers 5th Chakra - Vishuddha - Inversions/Shoulderstands 6th Chakra - Ajna - Insight poses 7th Chakra - Sahasrara - Padmasana ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 . #7chakras #yogachallenge #yogastudent #yogateacher #healingchallenge #subtlebody #tingsha #naturalhealing #chakrahealing #chakrabalancing #loveandalliscoming #onebreathatatime #directyourlife #awesomeearth #healingcrystals #healingoils #yogamat (presso Mantua, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpqzqnZgpMB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vrfb8didagjc

[truetantra]

We continue with our Kaula #Massage #tantra training ... we will review the generation of the experience & the process within a #ritual & the #sacredtouch . And continue with the intro to the tantra massage // #tantricamsterdam #rediscover #prana #subtlebody #tantrayoga #yoga #bodywork /// more info. www.truetantra.eu (en Amsterdam, Netherlands)

[norayogini]

#TheChakrasChallenge day 1 is here! Today we talk about #Muladhara: the most instinctual of all chakras - it is your survival center. Your fight and flight response is initiated from this chakra. This is your primal, animal nature. . The root chakra is the first #chakra and is located at the base of the spine. It is the root of your being and establishes the deepest connections with your physical body, your environment and with the Earth. The energy of Muladhara allows us to harness courage, resourcefulness and the will to live during trying times. It connects us with spiritual energies of our ancestors, their challenges and their triumphs. Conflict memories are imprinted in the #subtlebody, described as a combination of the mind, the intellect and the ego (#BhagavadGita), and are passed down from generation to generation creating unconscious generational patterns. It's important to balance the root chakra first, before we proceed to others, or we will lack the stability and rootedness necessary for transformation and personal growth. . Today’s set of poses are #grounding ones, like #SetuBandhaSarvangasana #lowbridge. I ask you to feel the soles of your feet, your footprint, your toes, your heels, imagine blood running through them and all of your body. Today’s affirmation is a very powerful one: I am deeply connected to my body. It means the whatever pain, tingle, itch, pleasure we may feel, we acknowledge it, without judgement. It’s physiological, it’s in our bodies, let’s welcome it. 🌀 Your mindful hosts: @norayogini @yogini_nerd @yogaromina @yoginijoy 🍃 The generous sponsors: @liforme @vayumudra @mymalagarden @bergamotandme 🍁 The poses: 1st Chakra - Muladhara ✔️ 2nd Chakra - Swadhisthana - Hip openers 3rd Chakra - Manipura - Core poses 4th Chakra - Anahata - Heart openers 5th Chakra - Vishuddha - Inversions/Shoulderstands 6th Chakra - Ajna - Insight poses 7th Chakra - Sahasrara - Padmasana ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 . #7chakras #yogachallenge #yogastudent #yogateacher #healingchallenge #subtlebody #tingsha #naturalhealing #chakrahealing #chakrabalancing #loveandalliscoming #onebreathatatime #directyourlife #awesomeearth #healingcrystals #healingoils #yogamat (presso Mantua, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpoNvmFAxqk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h8690f8lk11b

[norayogini]

Welcome to the final day of #TheChakrasChallenge featuring #crownchakra: the seventh chakra, it is at the top of the #chakraladder and connects us with the universe and the Divine source of creation. . #Sahasrara is located at the crown of the head. The gift of this chakra is experiencing unity and the #selfless realization that everything is connected at a fundamental level. A level that some call the "Akasha" or "Zero Point Field", or just "the Field". This is the fundamental level of connection. The "way of the crown chakra" is the way of going beyond the limits of your own ego. It is the way of transcending the ego and knowing that all of creation is interconnected at a fundamental level. . When we realize that everything is connected and that we are part of the larger scheme of life, we begin to live with gratitude, faith and trust, rather than filled with fear and anxiety. It's important to know that there aren't only 7 chakras, but this are the main. . Today's affirmations: 🔸I honor the Divine within me 🔸I trust the spirit of the universe 🔸I am one with the universe 🔸My life moves with Grace . Check your mindful hosts: @norayogini @yogini_nerd @yogaromina @yoginijoy 🍃 The generous sponsors: @liforme (my yogamat) @vayumudra (my outfit) @mymalagarden (my mala) @bergamotandme (the oil I'm using) 🍁 The poses: 1st Chakra - Muladhara ✔️ 2nd Chakra - Swadhisthana ✔️ 3rd Chakra - Manipura ✔️ 4th Chakra - Anahata ✔️ 5th Chakra - Vishuddha ✔️ 6th Chakra - Ajna ✔️ 7th Chakra - Sahasrara ✔️ ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 . #7chakras #yogachallenge #yogastudent #yogateacher #healingchallenge #subtlebody #tingsha #naturalhealing #chakrahealing #chakrabalancing #loveandalliscoming #onebreathatatime #directyourlife #awesomeearth #healingcrystals #healingoils #yogamat https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp32r4Vg8xd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17fbixsn7dutg

[whatonyogaearth]

Cakras: The version you know isn’t the original 

A radical remembering of the Tantrik body. Beyond colour, psychology, or upward ascent 

You’ve heard it before: 

“There are seven chakras, each a spinning wheel of coloured light.”  “They correspond to your glands, your emotions, your wounds.”  “To grow spiritually, you must open and align them, from root to crown.” 

Cakras (Sanskrit: चक्र cakra, pronounced chuh-kruh), often visualised today as spinning wheels of rainbow-coloured energy climbing the spine, have become yoga poster icons, chakra crystal kits, and psychological self-help diagrams.  

This system is everywhere: yoga studios, social media, energy healing courses.

But it is not ancient and it is not Tantrik. 

In early Tantrik visualisations, each cakra is described as a living shrine, not a colour-coded wheel, but a ritually constructed maṇḍala.  

“The body is a shrine. Not a ladder. Not a staircase. Not a spectrum to fix or ascend. It is a mystery, made of sound, breath and starstuff.” 

In this blog, we’ll explore: 

What the classical Tantrik cakras really were 

How the modern rainbow system evolved 

What the correct bīja mantras are (and aren’t) 

How cakras were actually used in Tantrik ritual 

What we’ve forgotten, and what we can remember 

A powerful, simple Tantrik practice of descent 

And finally, we’ll compare the modern Western model and the Tantrik ritual body visually, for clarity. As a bonus we have included a comparative view of cross-cultural energy maps and serpentine forces. 

A note before we journey deeper: This is not written to dismiss or devalue the modern New Age cakra model. For many, it has offered real comfort, insight, and transformation, and we honour that. It’s the very framework we ourselves were taught, and for many years, shared with others in good faith.

But like all sincere practitioners, we are on a path of remembering, of unlearning, and of deepening into the roots of what we offer. This is about getting our history clear, not to draw lines in the sand, but to speak more truthfully about where these teachings come from, and what they were originally meant to reveal.

We believe it matters: how we speak, what we share, and what we pass on. That’s why we’re committed to sharing what is authentic, aligned, and true to the traditions we love, and to doing so with a spirit that is discerning, honest, and open.

If something here feels mistaken or incomplete, we warmly invite you to reach out. We are always listening, always learning. ❤️

The History: From Esoteric Tantra to New Age Marketing 

Original Sources 

The earliest references to cakras appear in early medieval Tantrik texts, particularly within Śākta and Śaiva traditions of India. The concept likely evolved between the 6th and 10th centuries CE. In the original Tantrik systems of Kaśmīr Śaivism, Śākta Tantra, and Haṭha Yoga, the subtle body (sūkṣma-śarīra) was a sacred terrain filled with nāḍīs (subtle channels), cakras (wheels or hubs), granthis (knots), bindus (points), and devī-thrones - each layered with specific mantras, deities, and ritual significance. 

The earliest descriptions of cakras are found in medieval Tantrik texts like the Ṣaṭcakra-nirūpaṇa (c. 1577 CE), which presents a 6-cakra system culminating not in sahasrāra as a chakra, but as a symbolic crown or void. Other earlier texts, like the Kubjikāmatatantra, offer 5, 9, 12 or more centres. Some lineages didn't refer to cakras at all, instead working with nāḍīs (channels), bindu (point of emanation), mantra nyāsa, spanda (vibratory consciousness). or the entire body as shrine. 

Read more on our Substack: Cakras: The version you know isn’t the original

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First steps toward the 'subtle body'

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First steps toward the 'subtle body': detach from sensory illusion, awaken inner organs of consciousness, separate subtle from dense (Hermetic) or real from unreal (Hindu)—retain Self, avoid ecstatic dissolution. #SubtleBody #Evola #Hermeticism #Traditionalism #Initiation

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