The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body and Spirit Through the Chakras

This is one of my favorite books, and one I recommend often to friends. It's topic are the chakras, the seven energy centers of the human body. After an introductory chapter, it devotes a chapter to each chakra in depth. Unlike so many other books about chakras, though, this book does NOT just talk & talk & talk about them. Talk feeds the head, and the chakras are about whole-body experience: being able to give a precise verbal definition of the third chakra is NOT at all the same as having a healthy third chakra! This book thoroughly acknowledges that, and for each chakra, recommends a wealth of approaches --- including word association exercises, journal exercises, yogic stretches & exercises (all illustrated with photographs), partner bodywork (again, photographs), and sacred rituals --- for each chakra. Because of the richness and depth of the treatment of each chakra, this book is ideal for someone quite experienced in energetic bodywork as well as for someone who barely knows what a "chakra" is. It can be read cover to cover, or can be consulted as a reference book when issues arise with a particular chakra. If you follow the program they lay out, doing all the exercises for all the chakras, there is almost no way you could avoid experiencing some measure of personal growth and transformation. I can think of no other book that better deserves the epiteth of "User Manual for the Human Body." I highly recommend this book.

Exploring Intimacy: Cultivating Healthy Relationships through Insight and IntuitionAnodea's Sevenfold Journey started me on the path to health and wholeness. This book will never go out of date because the way it is designed is truly timeless.Each Chakra is presented with words, colors, gems, sounds, songs, and exercises for really indepth learning. I have benefited in every way from what I gleaned from this book years ago. I use the material on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. No matter how you choose to approach the valuable lessons included in this valuable work, you will feel better and have more clarity if you do!Now Anodea Judith has written the foreword for my book, so we have come full cycle!

I was surprised at how well this book was put together. I considered myself fairly knowledgeable on the chakra system but this book was less technical but more practical about the basics of the system. It has been wonderful grow another level using this book. It was interesting watching the entire class process each chakra throughout the workshop. Just by reading the book and acknowledging and learning about each chakra everybody's life was changed by healing in areas that needed work, even if we weren't aware there was work to be done. After journeying through the book, I'm humbled and left thirsty to learn more. The only con is that the photo's in the book need updating, although I did find the 1980's clothing to be amusing.

What a great book and a great personal journey! If you are looking for a way to know yourself better and to open your chackras by releasing stuck energy, this is a good path to follow. It takes time and effort (exercises, self-reflection, journaling), but it's worth it. I recommend reading this with a group, and it's even better, if you have a yoga teacher leading the group, as I did. Simply a great way to understand each chackra in depth! I highly recommend this book for those seeking self-actualization and spiritual enlightenment through knowing the self and tapping into your inner wisdom and divinity.

I worked with the exercises in this book alongside traditional psychotherapy recently, and my therapist was suprised how much progress I quickly made. This workbook gives another aproach to mental health that is spiritually aligned, whatever your religious or spiritual background. The exercises are interesting, useful, and very relevant to what the rest of the book teaches. The authors give many different tactics to approach a problem, which I found useful, and their explanations of the chakra system was consitant with other texts I have read. They arrange things easily and plainly, without over-complicating the subject. This book provides a great reference that I've used again and again, and as a workbook, it allows you to use it directly in your life. The yoga stuff in the book could have been improved--I'm not familiar with Yoga and found it hard to do the physical exercises in the book.

I love it

Great book, I would recommend to either get it in conjunction with Adoneas other chakra books, they are definitely the heavy hitters in the collection. This is very much like a work book to use along with the other, more informative pieces

This is somewhat to me like a self help book for your soul, through different activities you think of things and events that have occurred in your life from a different perspective. The book encourages for this book to be shared with at least one other person for the physical activities in the book (this is the only part that I've unfortunately missed out on this far). But otherwise I really enjoy this book!