Chapter
18

Partner Chakras: The Power of Two

“People … people who need people … are the luckiest peeee-plllllle, in the wooooorld ….” Okay, we’ll stop. We realize you really don’t want to hear us do karaoke versions of 1960s Streisand hits. However, we dabble in song just to make a point: chakras seek each other.

Chakra magnetism is one of the coolest things about chakras, and we have a theory about it. We think that maybe the reason humans are such social animals, always seeking companionship—friends as well as sexual partners and soul mates—is because our chakras are drawn energetically to the chakras of other people. Maybe that’s one of our primary connections.

In the same way that making a particular sound can tone and tune up the chakras (see Chapter 15), so can close contact with the chakra of another. The best thing about synchronizing your chakras with someone else’s chakras is that chakras don’t synchronize their blocks or overloads. The healthiest, most-balanced chakra opens or balances the less-balanced chakra, and if you and a partner have different chakra strengths, each one’s strength will benefit the other without any negative effects from unbalanced chakras. In other words, only good can come of chakra partner work. Synchronized chakras are not codependent—they are co-inspiring!

That’s what this chapter is about. We show you how to tune up your chakras with some simple exercises with another person. This can be your partner, your soul mate, or your friend. You can even do these exercises with your children, although they work best if you are approximately the same size, so your chakras line up.

First, let’s talk about why chakra synchronizing works.

Chakra Synchronicity

If you hold a pendulum over a chakra, the prana energy in that chakra will rise toward the pendulum like a bubble seeking the surface of the water or a piece of iron drawn to a magnet, like a portal.

That’s because prana tends to seek other prana. You can actually feel this magnetic-like attraction. Rub your two palms together briskly until they begin to feel warm. Then close your eyes (so you aren’t distracted by visual stimulus) and put your palms close together—but not quite touching—in front of your heart. Move them slowly wider apart and then closer together. Pay close attention to the feeling in your palms. Can you feel the energy buzzing and flowing from one palm to the other? Can you feel it pulling as you pull your palms apart, as if your prana wants you to hold the energy in your palms together? Take a look again at the illustration in Chapter 1 that shows how you can feel the magnetic energy of the Heart chakra between your palms. You even have small chakras in both your palms as well, and they seek each other’s energy. Maybe that’s why it feels so good to hold someone’s hand. Your hand chakras are communing.

We believe our chakras are attracted to the chakras of other people, and we also believe our chakras are attracted to the chakras of animals. Yes, animals have chakras, too, which can open and close or get blocked or overloaded, much the same as ours do. In an animal, the Root chakra lies at the base of the tail; the Passion chakra lies in the lower abdomen; the Solar Plexus chakra lies at the base of the rib cage; the Heart chakra lies at the heart; the Throat chakra lies in the throat; the Third Eye chakra lies at the forehead; and the Crown chakra lies at the highest point of the skull. Perhaps that’s why people are so fascinated with animals and why we have developed such close and meaningful relationships with our dogs and cats.

Chakras are not only about our shared humanity, but they are also about our shared vitality as sentient beings. You might even experience the vital prana of plants, especially trees. Have you ever stood back-to-back against the trunk of an old-growth tree and felt the life force energy coursing through it? All that lives possesses this Divine prana life force. So, when we damage another living being, we damage ourselves. This is why it is so important to honor the prana life force in all that lives—not just in our garden or community but also everywhere on the Earth.

The Yin-Yang Connection

Chakras also attract each other because of yin and yang. In case you don’t remember the yin-yang discussion in Chapter 3, the concept of yin and yang comes from China and says that yin and yang are opposite but balancing forces inherent in everything. Yin is the lunar, feminine, cooling, receptive, wild, undisciplined energy of Earth. It is also the energy of Kundalini. Yang is the solar, masculine, heating, forceful, disciplined, structured, spiritual energy of the Sun 3, and it is the masculine counterpart to Kundalini, which is Shiva in Indian philosophy. Yin urges yang into a more sensual and joyful appreciation of life, while yang urges yin into a more evolved spiritual understanding of existence.

Yin and yang also influence the Eastern practice of Feng shui, which studies the flow of energy through personal spaces. Think of the areas in Feng Shui’s Bagua (like an energy map) as the chakras of your house!

The yin-yang symbol is a circle that is half black and half white, with a swirl of each fitting inside the other, and a dot of the opposite color inside each swirl. It represents ultimate balance. You have both yin and yang energy in you, and every one of your chakras has yin and yang energy spinning inside it.

According to the Chinese, all things seek to balance their yin and yang. You can apply this to the chakras in different ways, but let’s take the Heart chakra as an example. When your Heart chakra is blocked and you have a hard time giving and receiving love, you might have too much yang, which is more intellectual and spiritual and less immersed in communion with the physical world. If, on the other hand, you give love too easily with wild abandon and don’t logically consider the consequences of being too open or letting others manipulate you because you love them so much, you might have too much yin.

But put an overloaded Heart chakra or a blocked Heart chakra right up against a healthy, balanced Heart chakra that processes energy according to its nature, and the blocks can melt and the overloads even out. The two Heart chakras synchronize, always balancing out according to the healthiest chakra.

Another way to look at it is that the prana energy within your chakras is like water that always seeks to rejoin the sea. All chakras—indeed, all bodies—have within them an innate sense of what it feels like to be open and healthy, because an open healthy chakra has direct access to Universal prana that flows in and out of it. The sea doesn’t seek to flow up into the rivers, dams, and lakes, and Universal prana doesn’t align itself with blocks or overloads. Instead, when a troubled chakra detects a healthy chakra, it tends to align itself with that chakra because it recognizes its true nature.

Chakra Partner Exercises

This tendency of the chakras to seek and balance each other makes partner work a natural way to clear blocks and balance overloads in your own chakras. This kind of work can be as simple as a hug offered in greeting. When you hug someone (of course, with their agreement to the act), many of your primary chakras are put into direct contact with each other—especially at the chest, heart, and throat. That feels good for both partners (both giver and receiver), and that’s probably part of why hugs have been proven to be physically and psychologically beneficial. The strongest of each of the chakras helps open the weaker of the chakras, getting them all spinning and active again. Hugs are particularly beneficial for opening the Heart chakra. (See the “Heart-to-Heart” exercise later in this chapter.)

Also, a willing but awkward hug can serve as an acknowledgment of the hope for connection or even the first step toward an enduring energetic bond. We can often begin to feel an attraction of prana energy even at a socially distanced six feet of intervening space. At this social distance, direct eye contact connects the Third Eye chakras, and a vocal greeting by name connects the Throat chakras, enhancing that shared fellow-feeling of prana energy. In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020, virtual communication through social media proved surprisingly therapeutic in supportively connecting life force energy. By creating online communal choral or musical events—again highlighting the shared strength of the upper Universal Throat and Third Eye chakras—people held together when the physical bond remained socially distant; an isolated world joined in an unprecedented show of human connection.

You and your partner, friend, or family member can help each other even more, with targeted chakra partner work practiced together. As long as you choose someone you trust, these partner chakra exercises can really affect your own chakras. Plus, partner work is mutually beneficial, so your strongest chakras can greatly affect your partner, too. Never do chakra partner work with a reluctant or unwilling partner, just as you would never condone unwanted physical touch. Partner chakra work should be shared—it should never be forced. Both partners must be willing to participate. It is okay to have a shy or skeptical partner, just never an unwilling one.

Two consenting intimate partners making love is the ultimate chakra partner exercise. When you make love with your partner, you are not only aligning your Heart (compassion) chakras, but you are also aligning your Root (safety), Sacral (passion), and Solar Plexus (power) chakras—all the worldly chakras that ground you and give you access to an appreciation of the physical world. Remember, the Root chakra is the Earth element, the Sacral chakra is the Water element, the Solar Plexus chakra is the Fire element, and the Heart chakra is the Air element. When you kiss, you are aligning your Throat (communication) chakra and Third Eye (mind) chakra, too. The Throat chakra is the Sound element, and the Third Eye chakra is the Light element. Yes, a really good kiss can stimulate the prana energy of these upper Universal chakras, enhancing your natural intuitive communication and communal sense of knowing.

Meditation: Back-to-Back Chakra Alignment

We usually think of the chakras from the front of the body, but they are actually inside the body, in the middle, and their energy emanates from the back of the body, too. However, the fronts of our bodies represent our vulnerable, personal selves (the yin side of the body), while the backs of our bodies represent our more detached, Universal, Spiritual selves (the yang side of the body).

For this reason, back-to-back partner work is a great place to begin. Both partners won’t feel quite as vulnerable or nervous if they line up their Universal sides, as opposed to their personal sides. Sitting back-to-back is also an excellent way to meditate in sync. You just focus on meditating, and each partner’s spiritual nature will become ignited by the close contact of your Spiritual sides and the alignment of your chakras, making meditation easier and more effective.

You can meditate back-to-back with a partner anytime, but in this exercise, meditation is a preparation for other, more personal chakra work because it increases each partner’s immediate awareness of his, her, or their chakras. You don’t have to think about the other person’s chakras at all, and even though you aren’t doing anything purposefully, your chakras will be aligning and strengthening each other, just because of their close contact.

As for what you have to do with conscious intention, just think of this exercise as tuning in to your chakra channels so you can get the station to come in without any static. Then you can listen to the music.

1. Position a folded blanket on the floor or in the middle of a yoga mat. Sit back-to-back with your partner, so that each of you is sitting on the opposite edge of the blanket. Your lower backs should be in alignment, and you can rest against each other a touch, just so that you can feel where your lower backs come together as much as possible without one person pushing into the other. If you and your partner are of great height disparity, the shorter partner can sit on a pillow or blanket so that your lower backs will align. You should both be sitting up straight.
2. Imagine you are both rising up from the crown of the head to straighten your spines. Breathe naturally and listen to your breath. Don’t worry about how your partner is breathing, although you might find that your breath naturally begins to synchronize with your partner’s breath without any effort. Just keep focusing on your own breath. This is the time to center your mind on you and your own chakras, so you are in the right mode to do more with them in subsequent exercises. If you need to readjust or have any concerns, just say so. It is perfectly okay for you to talk, or laugh for that matter.
3. Now it’s time to tune in to your chakras. You each have a job to do. You are going to take turns naming the chakras, and as you do, both partners focus all their attention on their self-named chakra. Choose who will go first.
4. The first partner says, “Root. Safety.” Bring all your attention to your own Root chakra. Don’t worry about feeling your partner’s chakra right now. You are back-to-back, so that part will take care of itself. Just think about your own. Feel your Root chakra spinning at the base of your spine. Imagine its red color and its power to ground you. Breathe normally and feel your chakra for about one minute. It’s okay to use a timer on your smartphone or watch while you do this.
5. The second partner says, “Sacral. Passion.” Bring all your attention to your own Sacral chakra, and feel it spinning just below your navel. Imagine its orange color and feel its power to move you and inspire your emotions and creativity. Focus on your chakra for about one minute, breathing normally.
6. The first partner says, “Solar Plexus. Power.” Bring all your attention to your Solar Plexus chakra, and feel it spinning at the base of your rib cage and through your liver, kidneys, and stomach. Imagine its yellow color and feel how it projects your own personal power and confidence, giving you the will to act, change, and make things happen. Focus on your chakra for about one minute while breathing normally.
7. The second partner says, “Heart. Compassion.” Bring all your attention to your Heart chakra, and feel it spinning around your heart and through your lungs, in the center of your chest. Imagine its green color and feel how it infuses your entire torso with compassion, love, and healing energy. Focus on your chakra for about one minute, breathing normally.
8. The first partner says, “Throat. Communication.” Bring all your attention to your Throat chakra, and feel it spinning in your throat, right behind the hollow between your collarbones. Imagine its blue color and feel how it ignites your inner sense of perception, discerning the truth of situations and being able to speak and listen with intelligence and clarity. Focus on your chakra for about one minute, breathing normally.
9. The second partner says, “Third Eye. Mind.” Bring all your attention to your Third Eye chakra, and feel it spinning in your forehead, just above the space between your eyebrows. Imagine its deep indigo color and feel how it activates your intuitive intelligence so that you know much more than you can perceive with your five senses. Your inner knowing glows. Focus on your chakra for about one minute, as you breathe normally.
10. The first partner says, “Crown. Soul.” Bring all your attention to your Crown chakra, and feel it spinning just above the crown of your head. Imagine its pure purple or pure white color, and feel how it opens to a sense of knowledge and power, of Spirit that is beyond you in the Universe and yet within you, connecting you to everything and to the Source of All. Focus on your chakra for about one minute, as you breathe normally.
11. The second partner says, “Return.” Breathe deeply and bring your awareness back to the external world. Feel your partner’s back against yours. Both partners rock back and forth gently to reenergize their legs. Slowly lean forward and come back up to standing. Face your partner, bring your palms together in front of your heart, and say, “Thank you.”

Having a clear, conscious intention is one of the most important things you can do to increase the effectiveness of any chakra work. Before you begin any chakra exercise, whether with a partner or alone, always set your intention. What do you want to happen? Just think about the answer for a moment, or fill in the blank to this sentence:

“Right now, I do this because _______.”

Your answers will vary, but they might be something like:

• “Because I want to open my heart.”
• “Because I want to feel more confident in who I am.”
• “Because I want to say what I really mean.”

Setting your intention isn’t just good for chakra work. It is good to do before you attempt anything, whether you are working on a project for your job (“because I am committed to fulfilling my role in the team”), taking a yoga class (“because I want to feel stronger and more flexible today”), or just getting ready to cook dinner (“because I want to nourish myself with good food”).

Now you are ready to do more.

Line-Up: Chakras Palm-to-Palm

This exercise is excellent for romantic partners because it really brings two people closer together and can generate strong feelings of compassion and even desire. However, this is not a sexual exercise; it is an intimacy exercise.

This exercise is designed to help increase your feelings of integration as a couple, but it also works very well for two friends who are not romantically involved, helping them to forge a deeper and more meaningful connection. It is also incredibly healing because throughout the exercise, you join palms with your partner, so the healing energy that flows from your Heart chakra out through your palms is twice as strong as it mingles with your partner’s healing energy.

This exercise is also ideal for aligning and balancing all the chakras—yours and your partner’s—because you work through each chakra, as you did in the first exercise. In this one, however, because you are face-to-face, focusing on the more vulnerable and personal sides of your bodies, and consciously connecting your chakras, the intimacy effect of the partnership is more intense and powerful.

Before you begin, decide who will start when cueing each chakra. If you just finished the previous exercise, switch who goes first. Spend about 30 seconds on each chakra. If you know one or both of you is having issues with a particular chakra, allow a little more time with that chakra—up to one minute.

1. Stand in yoga’s Mountain pose (see Chapter 7), about two feet from your partner, face-to-face. Both partners stand with their feet shoulder-width apart. Arms hang at your sides. Stand up straight, lengthen the sides of your body as you pull your shoulders up, and then roll your shoulders back and lower them, opening and raising your chest. Move your upper inner thighs apart and back, and keep your tailbone tucked under. Keep a very slight bend in your knees. Stand comfortably and breathe normally.
2. Both partners hold out their arms and grasp each other’s wrists with straight arms. Bend your knees and stick your buttocks way back as you pull against each other, like you are waterskiing. You may need to take a step back to find the correct balance. Keeping your arms straight, stretch your arms and shoulders while keeping your armpits lifted. Get in sync with each other’s energy.
3. Stand, release wrists, step closer to your partner, and then hold out your hands at the level of your Heart chakra, palms facing your partner. Touch your palms to your partner’s palms.
4. Close your eyes, keeping your palms together. The first partner says, “One.” Both partners focus all their attention on the energy of their first chakra, or Root chakras. Imagine your first chakra’s deep red color and vigorous spin at the base of your spine, and then imagine it moving outward like a funnel to join the energy of your partner’s first chakra. You are rooted together like a great double-trunked tree. Visualize each chakra growing and strengthening, opening fully and coming in line with its fellow chakra. Both chakras fill up with energy and powerful red light. Keep the connection between your palms.
5. After about 30 seconds, the second partner says, “Two.” Both partners focus all their attention on the energy of their second, or Sacral chakras. Imagine your second chakra’s fiery orange color and flowing, undulating spin in your lower abdomen, and then imagine it moving outward like a funnel to join the energy of your partner’s second chakra. You are joined by your emotions. Visualize each chakra growing and strengthening, opening fully and coming in line with its fellow chakra. Both chakras fill up with energy and fiery-orange light. Keep the connection between your palms and all your lower chakras.
6. After about 30 seconds, the first partner says, “Three.” Repeat the process for the remaining chakras. For each chakra, both partners focus all their attention on the energy of that chakra, imagining the color (yellow for the third chakra, or Solar Plexus chakra; green for the fourth chakra, or Heart chakra; blue for the fifth chakra, or Throat chakra; indigo for the sixth chakra, or Third Eye chakra; purple or white for the seventh chakra, or Crown chakra) and the chakra’s energetic spin. Then imagine the chakra’s energetic spin moving outward like a funnel to join the energy of your partner’s corresponding chakra and connecting you. For each chakra, visualize your joined chakras growing and strengthening, opening fully and coming in line with its fellow. Throughout the exercise, keep the connection between your palms and all your lower chakras.
7. After you have finished the seventh chakra, or Crown chakra, wait about another 30 seconds, and the second partner says, “Open your eyes.” Look directly into your partner’s gaze. Put your palms together in front of your Heart chakra and say to your partner, “Thank you.”

Chakra partner work should be fun and lighthearted because if one person begins to feel intimidated or manipulated, their chakras might close reactively for protection. Laugh, smile, be supportive of each other, and have a good time. The more open you are, the more open your chakras will be.

A Hug a Day: Chakras Heart-to-Heart

Is a hug a day good medicine? You know it is. When you hug someone, your Heart chakras touch and they get a chance to fortify and strengthen each other. Because the fourth chakra, or Heart chakra, is the source of healing energy in the body’s energy system, hugs are particularly alchemical.

When two Heart chakras physically make contact, the combined energy becomes greater than the sum of their parts and infuses both partners with a real feeling of well-being and increased inner healing.

1. Find a willing partner, of any size. Kids are great. Open your arms.
2. Instead of putting your right arm up over your partner’s shoulder and your left arm under their right arm (the typical hug move), go the other way: your left arm over your partner’s shoulder and your right arm under your partner’s left arm. This puts your actual hearts closer together.
3. Squeeze and hold for at least 10 seconds. Don’t worry about what your Heart chakra is doing because it knows exactly how to heal. Work up to 30-second hugs.
4. Repeat several times daily.

Hugging seems simple, even a formality, but regular Heart chakra bonding with other human beings not only makes you feel better, but it increases your sense of connectedness with all life. When you feel connected, you feel happier, calmer, and more satisfied with your life. Studies also suggest that regular hugs actually boost your immune function. We suggest you work up to 10 of them a day, if possible.

According to a study conducted at the University of North Carolina, hugs increase the body’s production of oxytocin, the chemical that makes you feel emotionally connected to and nurturing toward other people. According to the study, when two people hugged for 20 seconds, oxytocin levels increased, especially between people who already love each other. Oxytocin doesn’t just make you feel nurturing toward someone. It has also been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease. At the same time, levels of cortisol—the notorious “stress hormone”—decreased during the 20-second hug. Cortisol has also been linked to heart disease. Is it a coincidence that touching Heart chakras decreases the risk of heart disease? We don’t think so.

For more advanced Heart chakra work, explore healing through alternating forward and backward bends. In a forward bend, you bear and protect the open Heart chakra of your partner. In a backward bend, your own open Heart chakra soars and exalts your partner’s steady, calming Heart chakra.

Take turns exploring your Heart chakras by sharing forward and backward bends. How open is your Heart chakra to your partner? This pose can be seen as a metaphor for the yin and yang balance of partnership through your Heart chakras.

Clear Sight: Chakras Third Eye-to-Third Eye

The sensitive fifth chakra, or Third Eye chakra, is particularly susceptible to the energy of others, so even though this is a quick exercise, it packs a punch. Don’t be alarmed if you “see” things during this exercise. Opening the intuitive intelligence of your chakra so close to someone else’s can cause visions to happen. If you want this intuitive sight to happen, stay very calm, breathe deeply, and really concentrate on opening your Third Eye chakra like a window.

You might see symbolic images or events related to yourself or to your partner during this exercise. If you do, talk about it with your partner to figure out if what you see means something to either one or both of you. If you don’t see anything, that’s okay, too. Intuitive communication comes in many forms, and it isn’t always trying to tell you something. Even when your intuition is silent, this exercise is healthful and strengthening to your sixth chakra.

1. Stand face-to-face with your partner, about six inches apart, in yoga’s Mountain pose (see Chapter 7), with your feet a little less than shoulder-width apart, your arms at your sides, and your back straight.
2. Look your partner in the eye and begin breathing together to a count of about five seconds inhaling and five seconds exhaling. With each inhalation, imagine the crown of your head rising to expand and make space inside your body. With each exhalation, imagine your body expanding, so that your energy reaches out in every direction.
3. Keep breathing together. Slowly, so you don’t bump heads, both partners lean in toward each other and touch foreheads. Synchronize your breathing by tuning in to the sound of your breath and your partner’s breath. You can both close your eyes.
4. Stand with your foreheads touching for 10 breaths. An inhalation and an exhalation is one breath. After the tenth breath, open your eyes. Slowly separate and return to Mountain pose. Share with each other what you felt. You can do this exercise a few times if you or your partner felt you were on the verge of seeing or feeling something extraordinary and you want to give the exercise more time to do its work. Share your visions and explore their meaning(s).

Touching your Third Eye to someone else’s Third Eye is a powerful exercise, so don’t overdo it. You should not hold this connection for more than 20 breaths unless you both have a lot of practice meditating and are both comfortable with the experience. Otherwise, the physical posture can strain your back, and the intense electrical energy through your Third Eye chakras could cause a chakra imbalance, opening your Third Eye chakras too much and at the expense of your other chakras.

Tree pose: Chakras Side-to-Side

More and more research is being done to show the sentient nature and collective intelligence of forests. Now more than ever, the Earth’s forests are an important presence. Our forests are the Earth’s lungs. To understand the communal breadth and width and reach of a tree, begin by standing at your partner’s side, touching only shoulder-to-shoulder, each of you in yoga’s Tree pose with the opposite knees drawn up. Hold the pose and look out upon your shared view. You see together, but you know each other through your close proximity and shared pose. Open your heart by taking deep, full breaths into your lungs in unison. Inhale, hold your breath, and exhale. Do this for at least 30 seconds and for up to 1 minute.

Once you have both grounded and opened yourselves by standing side-by-side in yoga’s Tree pose, it is time to reach for each other. Once alone together, you will now reach out to grow and entwine yourselves just as old-growth trees do in a forest stand. If one or both of you loses your balance as you reach for each other, don’t worry—it is part of the process. You are aiming for the ultimate goal of shared strength, grounded vision, and the free movement of prana life force energy up and down through your bodies as you breathe together. Feel the intense knowledge that concentration and cooperation grow between you as you hold Partner Tree pose.

Open your chakras side-by-side with yoga’s Partner Tree pose. Hold each other’s feet and rest your opposite hands on the small of your backs. As you stand your ground together, feel your chakras opening and spreading like branches of two trees growing and intertwining their energies.

Marvel at the great sentient power of Earth’s living lungs—its forests—and as you experience the vision of an open shared vista, stand entwined together as one with the Universe. Hold Partner Tree for as long as you are able or until you tire. Gently release the pose. Press your palms to your Heart and say to your partner, “Thank you.”

Savasana: Chakras Crown-to-Crown

In this easy but enlightening exercise, you and a partner lie in the classic yoga pose called Savasana or Corpse pose (see Chapter 7), but you lie with the crowns of your heads touching (or very close together). This joining of Crown chakras magnifies the energy in each person’s Crown chakra, attracting more external prana to flow into all your chakras and encouraging all your internal prana to flow upward. You might feel a strong sense of connectedness to all life and a deep sense of well-being during and/or after this exercise. You might also feel more oriented toward your spiritual side and in touch with the Universe.

If the Crown-to-Crown seventh chakra exercise becomes too intense, do something grounding afterward, like eating something or exercising your body.

Before you begin, set a timer for 10 or 15 minutes.

1. Position two yoga mats or blankets on the floor, end to end. Each partner sits in the middle of the mat, back to back with the other partner. Lie down slowly, being careful not to knock heads, and adjust so that the crowns of your heads are touching.
2. Shift your shoulder blades back under you so your chest lifts and your shoulder blades feel like they are cradling your heart. Relax your low back and slightly tuck your tailbone. Feel your neck and shoulders release. Let your arms rest loosely at your sides and let your feet fall open.
3. Close your eyes. Relax your jaw, your mouth and your teeth, and your tongue. Let your eyes sink and relax the inner corners of your eyes. Relax your ears, neck, shoulders, and chest. Relax your arms, elbows, wrists, and hands. Relax your stomach, abdomen, hips, legs, knees, ankles, and feet. Let your entire body sink into the ground. If you lose direct contact with your partner’s head, that’s okay. Your seventh chakras are already joined.
4. Remain in a totally relaxed position and focus on the sound of your breath, letting your mind relax. When thoughts come to you, let them go. Thoughts will continue to arise, so acknowledge them without judgment, and then let them float away. Stay in this position for about 10 minutes. You don’t have to think about, visualize, or do anything about your seventh chakra during this exercise. It is an open portal to the Universe, the prana life force energy that flows in through you, through your partner, back out, and in through your partner, through you, and back out in a great circle (like a giant chakra or spiral galaxy) that grows stronger and brighter with every breath.
5. When the time is up, very slowly move your fingers and toes to reorient yourself to the physical world. Slowly bend your knees and roll over to your right side. When you are ready, slowly sit up, put your palms together in front of your heart, rest a moment, then say to your partner, “Thank you.”

If you don’t have anyone at home who you can do this chakra partner work with, enlist an interested friend or even someone from your yoga class. Show them this book and tell them what you’d like to try. When the right partner comes along for this kind of chakra healing work, you’ll know it. Your experience of relationship(s) and feelings of belonging on the Earth and in the Universe will deepen and open, even as you find yourself grounded and centered within.