This book provides a stunning amount of information. It provides a history of chakra healing and ties in Park's background with teaching the Alexander Method. The chapters cover each of the chakras in turn with information on how to heal them in both physical and psychological ways. This is done through meditation, poses, and affirmations. There is a lot of information. Very good for those learning about chakras for the first time and those who are looking to deepen their study.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is the most in-depth book about Chakra that I have come across to date. This book focuses on emotional healing therapy and learning to awaken spiritual energies to do so. I found this book very informative and very well written in an in-depth but easy to follow and understand format and I enjoyed the illustrations dotted through the book.

This book would be a fantastic resource for beginners to chakra or anyone wanting to deepen and progress their knowledge and practice and would make a fantastic gift too.

I enjoyed this book and think it would be good for the beginner as well as the more experienced chakra healer. This book goes in depth on healing ones chakras as well as emotional healing. I loved it.

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy free of charge. Thix is my honest and unbiased opinion of it

So good I am going to search out the author for a private chakra healing session. I resonated with so much of this book, couldn’t put it down.

… In this journey through the chakras, we have seen unfolding the theory that we live in

a conscious intelligent universe. Ultimately, at our highest and deepest level, the converse

is also true; a conscious intelligent universe lives in us. We are in essence an expression

of the pure divine energy of the universe…1.

Chakra Healing Therapy: Awaken Spiritual Energies and Heal Emotional Wounds by Glen Park is written from the perspective of serving a broad audience of readers ranging from those who work primarily with the Chakra system for spiritual purposes, those using this system as a vital component of energetic anatomy and healing practices and those who like to incorporate both as spiritual and scientific overlay to their work. With this being said, the book is filled with color palates and graphics that provide a very visual approach to a part of our anatomy that is ephemeral and largely unseen.

The Introduction: Setting the Stage does precisely that. The etymology of the word “chakra”, the history of use and energetic structure and more are provided at the onset to provide the reader with all that is needed to engage in the meat and bones of the book with a good foundation of knowledge and expectation. Additionally, the roles of the Nadis, Auras and the connective energetic anatomy, all of which support and work in collaboration with one another are given ample review to assist the reader in understanding the complexity of the Chakra system. This information weaves through the various chakras and their chapters with references to Kundalini-Shakti, the Tree of Life and other and varied disciplines.

Chakra Healing Therapy: Awaken Spiritual Energies and Heal Emotional Wounds is separated into Act One-The Lower Chakras:The Earth Realm, Act Two-The Heart Chakra:Gateway to the Spiritual Realm, Act Three-The Upper Chakras:Higher Expressions of the Lower Chakras and, Finale-The Crown Chakra:Gateway to the Divine Realm. This thought-filled layout provides another layer of information about the chakras and their energies in the way of groupings and semantics selected.

Each chakra’s chapter begins with a listing of the Sanskrit name, English translation, Dominant stage (human life) and Central themes. These set the tone for the more in depth information to follow. The information for each is then broken down into subsections: (the) Physical Level, Psychic Level, Spiritual Level, Cultural Considerations, and a case study relevant to the use of Chakra Healing Therapy.

I especially enjoyed Act Two–The Heart Chakra:Gateway to the Spiritual Realm. To give you an idea of the breadth of information covered…

Publisher’s Excerpt. Amazon.com © All rights reserved…..

The Heart Chakra is the game changer. Placed at the center of the body and the center of the chakra system, it plays a pivotal role in the unfolding of each life because it is the gateway into the Spiritual Realm and the deeper spiritual levels of all the chakras.

If the Heart Chakra is not flowing well we experience the world mainly from the egocentric and wounded perspectives of the lower chakras, the small self. But when the Heart Chakra is flowing well it offers another perspective on ourselves and on the world, where we can begin the process of healing the wounds and traumas of our past and discover a deeper, truer, more spiritual part of ourselves.

Psychological Level: In the first chakra the motivation is to survive, in the second to explore the world seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, and in the third to develop a sense of identity through one’s values and choices. Put very simply, the three lower chakras represent the development of the separate individual, based on the needs of security, pleasure, and self-identity. In Heart Chakra consciousness these needs drop away and there is the desire to

simply be, living in the present moment, with awareness and a sense of connection to all of life.

The Heart Chakra consciousness of loving acceptance needs to be balanced with the discrimination of the Solar Plexus Chakra and the Eye Chakra. It would be difficult for anyone to be operating from pure Heart Chakra consciousness all the time. But daily life requires that we make choices and choices depend on judgments. Heart Chakra consciousness influences the values we have developed in the Solar Plexus Chakra, bringing a loving global perspective to them. Ideally the two chakras need to work together. For example, when a kind and loving parent is cross with a child, they may express anger but underneath that, they still accept the beauty and vulnerability of this young human being whom they love deeply, and this will affect the way they communicate their displeasure.

Psychic Level: At the psychic level of the Heart Chakra there is an ability to identify and merge with another person. Boundaries between people dissolve. Healing energy is born here and healing is the clearest example of working at a psychic level with the Heart Chakra. This can be through listening and talking, hands-on work, auric work or absent healing. Healing can take many forms. If a caretaker of a sick or disabled person, in addition to all the practical tasks carried out, feels genuine loving compassion towards their charge, they can be transmitting healing energy. Many nurses, teachers, social workers, therapists and others are operating from a compassionate flowing Heart Chakra which can have very powerful healing effects.

Spiritual Level: At the spiritual level of the Heart Chakra we enter more consciously into the Spiritual Realm of life, which brings more depth and awareness to our experience. The Base Chakra is the entry point into Earth Realm of life which initiates the physical and psychological development of a separate self. The Heart Chakra can be seen as a higher expression of the Base Chakra, the gateway into the Spiritual Realm, initiating our development as spiritual beings.


Quick Heart Chakra Reconnection: This is an exercise which you can use whenever you are feeling the need to reconnect with your Heart Chakra consciousness. Focus your attention in the area of the heart. Notice your breath flowing in and out of your chest area nourishing your Heart Chakra, and stay aware of this for the next five breaths. Think of a person, an animal, a place, or anything that you appreciate and feel loving towards and send your love energy out to them from your Heart Chakra, for the next five breaths. Now imagine that loving energy turning around and coming back to you, nourishing your Heart Chakra. As you breathe out send your love energy out and as you breathe in allow that love energy to fill your Heart Chakra and your whole being.

Exercises for your personal practice and recommendations for assessing the potency of your chakra systems are provided at each chakra level as well. This is a very nice touch and engages the reader in a way that is both academic and personal. A quote that begins the final chapter, Journey’s End sums up the intention of this book beautifully…

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.2.

– T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” –

Would I Recommend:

Chakra Healing Therapy: Awaken Spiritual Energies and Heal Emotional Wounds by Glen Park is one of those books that you wish you had come across before you’ve bought several books to get the full picture of the chakras that is gifted in this single read. The Bibliography is robust and clearly demonstrates the level of research and study that went into the creation of this book. I have spent many years in study of esoteric anatomy and this book pulls much of that information together in an understandable and useable way. If you are seeking something more than a cursory read on the Chakras and related systems, this is the book for you.

About Author Glen Park:

Glen Park has taught workshops in the Alexander Technique and Chakra Therapy for more than 30 years in Europe, the United States, Australia, and Japan. She has also presented at conferences for Alexander Technique International and the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique. The author of The Art of Changing, she lives in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK.

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Review by Robin Fennelly of PaganPages.org
https://paganpages.org/emagazine/2020/09/01/book-review-chakra-healing-therapy-glen-park/

In a world were everything and everyone is fast paced and ridden with anxiety, it is necessary to sometimes flush yourselves of negative energy. Chakra Healing Therapy is a fascinating read that is both informative and essential to ones well being.
As the book progresses you are immersed in knowledge of the seven chakras and their three gateways. In addition to the graphic details, their are numerous colorful, organized images to help inform the reader of specific knowledge throughout the book. The book is great for anyone who may already be knowledgeable of the spiritual energies or (like myself) someone who is seeking to expand their horizons into eastern Asian healing therapies.

This book was a great resource for a beginner like me. I found it very interesting, but also it's written in a way that makes it overwhelming. I plan on buying a copy to keep on hand.