Chakra System - Functional Study & Teaching Guide
The Chakra System: A Functional Study & Teaching Guide
An in-depth reference for personal study, embodied practice, and classroom teaching.
Explore the seven primary chakras through a structured approach to energy mechanics. This guide presents the chakra system as a practical framework for understanding how sensation, emotion, expression, perception, and meaning relate within your experience.
Rather than treating each chakra as an isolated symbol, the guide explores the system as an interconnected whole—from the root’s grounding function to the crown’s relationship with awareness, with the heart serving as the integrating bridge.
What’s included
A comprehensive study guide
Explore each chakra’s location, energetic quality, core function, patterns of balance, and expressions of deficiency or excess. Practical exercises connect the material to everyday experience through movement, breath awareness, reflection, boundaries, communication, and meditation.
Eight illustrated teaching plates
Your purchase includes one dedicated visual plate for each of the seven chakras, plus a complete-system overview:
- Root: Stability, safety, and embodied presence
- Sacral: Sensation, emotion, creativity, and flow
- Solar Plexus: Will, identity, and personal agency
- Heart: Connection, compassion, and integration
- Throat: Expression, communication, and authenticity
- Brow: Perception, pattern recognition, and insight
- Crown: Awareness, unity, and meaning
- System Overview: How the seven centers relate as an integrated whole
These illustrated plates bring key concepts into an accessible visual format for study, review, and instruction. Use them alongside the guide to explain relationships, introduce discussion, and help learners connect principles with practice.
For students and educators
Whether you are deepening your own understanding or supplementing an existing class, this resource provides a consistent framework you can return to—not simply read once.
Instructor-use permission is included. Purchasers may use the teaching plates in their own paid classes and workshops.
Developed by Russ Littau of Hemisphere, drawing on more than two decades of research, training, and teaching in energy mechanics.
Digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Intended for education and personal exploration, not medical diagnosis or treatment.