This book gives a wonderful view of how your creativity can be enhanced by your chakras. There are wonderful exercises that can help you tap into your chakras along with yoga poses. And the way it is written is easily understood even for those just learning about chakras.

A good book that introduces chakras. This book is full of interesting and useful information and it was very easy to understand the concepts. Well organized and written in a way that engages the reader. Thank you for the opportunity to read & Review.

I was excited for this one...but I struggled to connect. It was far too verbose for me to get into. I did like the tips and the accompanying yoga positions...but it just didn't work for me.

A Wonderful Approach To Creativity

Jilly Shipway induces this book by stating that it takes a prayerful approach, but this approach is beneficial and suitable for those of all religions or none. She explains that by using the term “prayerful ,” she only means that we should quieten down and open ourselves to guidance and creative inspiration.

The author states that she dedicates a chapter for the discussion of each of the seven chakras, and that each of the chakra chapters of the book has its own yoga practice. Furthermore, she discusses the seven chakra and their yoga practices so that they may stimulate our creativity, by incorporating into the yoga practices the element, color, mantra, and affirmations that are associated with each chakra.
Below is an outline of some of the primary concerns that influence the design of each chakra-inspired yoga practice:
1. Root Chakra: Grounding and building strong foundations
2. Sacral Chakra: Fluidity, getting your energy flowing
3. Solar Plexus Chakra: Strength and empowerment
4. Heart Chakra: Heart opening, creating a loving space to hold and heal emotions
5. Throat Chakra: Expression, finding your voice
6. Third Eye Chakra: Developing intuition and clear sightedness
7. Crown Chakra: Opening to the possibility of bliss and enlightenment

Additionally, the author discusses some main creative concern of the chakras, each chakra meaning, the chakras' location, associated color, main creative Bija (Hinduism and Buddhism Sanskrit term for origin) concern of mantra, and each chakra associated element.

In relation to creativity, the author discusses each chakra's quality as it relates to creativity, for she states that the sacral chakra links your creativity to the umbilical cord of life, and you learn about the attraction of opposites, and your ideas are fertilized and grow. The author outlines this relationship for each chakra in the respective chapters.

I found this book very enlightening in regards to connecting our chakras with the aspect of creativity. I do recommend it for anyone to view different understandings of another's viewpoints.

I personally struggled to consume this book. There are too many walls of text for me to stay engaged and it felt like work trying to find the motivation to read it. I really need something more easy on the eye, something fun and easier to consume. Unfortunately, the layout of this book prevents me from enjoying it.

This book is great. It really helps you understand the relationship between chakras and creativity. I've been working with chakras for a bit and really found this book helpful.

This a very awesome concerto and perspective to read about. It one I would add to my shelf to go back for idea and answer to thoughts etc

Give me a well written chakra book and I am a happy woman {plus the quote from Alice Walker at the onset is golden.} 💫

As an energy healer, crystal practitioner, yoga teacher and voracious reader, you better believe I’ve read many chakra books. And I’m constantly reading new ones because I always learn something new. A new perspective or inspiration for a new technique.

I practice yoga and meditation most days — yet sometimes my practice ebbs and flows and when it ebbs more than flows, I need a spark of inspiration, some zest to reinvigorate my commitment … and voila, this book.

On the intro she gives brief and succinct descriptions of the chakras, definitely good for newbies and she goes deeper later in the book too. ✨

Mostly I invoke Ganesh at the start of a new project, yoga class or anything new actually! But Jilly Shipway suggests invoking the wisdom of Gonika at the start of a new creative endeavor and she leads you through a beautiful visualization to do just that. I’m certainly going to try this and see how it fits!

Onward, I wholeheartedly agree that walking can be a superpower for clarity, focus and release. The chapter on walking meditations served as a good reminder and I’m willing to bet it’s the spark someone needs to start meditation practice, especially anyone that finds stillness meditation to be challenging.

Once you get to the individual Chakra practice chapters things get a little more in depth, The stick figure yoga Asana suggestions work for me b/c that’s how I design + prepare my classes on paper. I absolutely love to see the bija mantras incorporated into a sequence — Shipway speaks my language! ✨

And then there’s the chakra walking meditations. Simple and easy to implement for most, it’s a great tool to focus your mind, move your body and call in some Chakra balancing. Highly recommend.

I fully enjoyed this book! Working with your Chakras requires time, patience, and proper information so you can live your best life and help others too.
The author takes you step by step through various spiritual tools like meditation, Yoga, and visualization. Each step is well detailed and easy to understand.
I would recommend this book to others.

What does it mean to be creative and how can your chakras add to your creativity? That’s what this book will answer for you. It also provides a series of exercises you can do to tap into your chakras to do this.

While I recommend this book, I did deduct a star for the poor drawing provided for certain yoga poses. I just couldn’t figure them out and I would suggest that having put this much of yourself into writing the book, you would have been better served by actual pictures than drawings.

I am pretty new to reading about chakras and I feel like I really learned a lot. I liked the writing, too. Will definitely purchase to peruse again and again when I need inspiration.

A beautiful book on creativity and chakras. Great detail on the chakras themselves, especially related to creativity, which I loved. Also many exercises and meditations to do. Enjoyed this book. Thank you to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for allowing me to read and review.

The first part of the book describes what it means to be creative, the seven major chakras, and chakra exercises for enhancing creativity. The second part of the book describes each chakra and their exercises. Included for each chakra areyoga practices, chakra meditation, walking meditation, writing meditation and meditation questions. The e are stick figure illustrations of the poses. I found that, in some cases, it was hard to visualize the poses from the stick figures. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Recommended resources