If you’re on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and spiritual growth, understanding the chakras can be a powerful tool. Whether you’re a yoga practitioner, into energy healing, or simply looking to cultivate more balance in your life, learning about the chakra system can help you unlock deeper levels of awareness, vitality, and emotional well-being.
The chakras—seven energy centers in the body—are at the heart of many ancient healing traditions. When they are considered open and balanced, we feel aligned, energized, and connected. But when they’re blocked or out of sync, we often experience physical, emotional, or spiritual imbalances.
By exploring the wisdom of the chakras, we can learn to restore harmony within ourselves and live with greater clarity and purpose. To support you on this journey, I’ve curated a list of four incredible books that offer profound insights into the chakra system. I believe these are the best books you can read when it comes to dealing with and understanding the chakras.
Whether you’re new to this practice or looking to deepen your knowledge, these books will guide you in understanding, activating, and working with your energy centers.
4 of the best books on the chakras for deepening your energy practice.
Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System by Anodea Judith.
This is Anodeas classic introduction to the chakras. Teaching you how to balance your chakras using meditations and yoga―along with spiritual wisdom. My copy is covered in highlighting and is never far away, as I like to read random pages now and again for inspiration. If you only read one book on the chakras I suggest it’s this one.
Unblocked: A Revolutionary Approach to Tapping into Your Chakra Empowerment Energy to Reclaim Your Passion, Joy, and Confidence by Margaret Lynch Raniere.
In this book, Margaret introduces you to the four lower chakras, their hidden power, and how to use EFT/Tapping to work with them. This is technical a book on EFT for the chakras. Your chakras can get blocked from various events and experiences in your life creating issues with fears, pain, self-doubt, procrastination, and health issues. Her take on EFT for the chakras is a refreshing approach to healing them, that I thoroughly enjoyed getting to learn in this book.
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Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith.
If you’re wondering how and why we should embrace the Eastern traditional chakra system and integrate it into our Western science-based health system you only need to read this book! I’ll read everything written by Anodea and love every single word. With a foundation in the chakra system and the Western understanding of individual development, she describes development patterns and possible traumas at each step and how to manage and heal them.
The Complete Book of Chakra Healing: Activate the Transformative Power of Your Energy Centers by Cyndi Dale.
Cyndi’s book is a treasure trove expanding the seven-chakra system to thirty-two, including twenty spiritual points serving as catalysts for dynamic change. It’s a comprehensive guide that will enable you to work with the chakra system and integrate the powerful forces of your energy body into your everyday life for better health. Cyndi has written many books, and I’ve read most of them.
