The Chakra System and Essential Oils

The following is a basic reference for how to use essential oils for activiating and balancing the energy centers, or charkas, of the body.

First or Root (or base) – Essential oils: Valor® essential oil, Abundance™essential oil
Apply topically to the bottoms of the feet and sacrum.
The root (or base) chakra is the first and most important chakra for yoga or any kind of healing work. The key words here are courage, security, safety, grounding, and boundaries.

Second –Sacral

Essential oils: Peace & Calming® essential oil, Harmony™ essential oil
Apply topically below the navel.
The sacral chakra is the center of your creativity, desire, emotion, sexuality, and intuition. This is where you learn how to give and receive pleasure

Third – Solar  Plexus

Essential oils: Harmony™ essential oil , En-R-Gee™essential oil
Apply topically below the sternum and behind the stomach.
The solar plexus chakra is the center of personal power, ambition, intellect, astral force, desire, and emotions based on intellect and touch.

Fourth – Heart

Essential oil: Joy™ essential oil
Apply topically to the center of the chest at heart level.
The heart chakra is the center of compassion, love, group consciousness, and spiritually associated with “oneness” with “all that is.”

Fifth -  Throat

Essential oils: Believe™ essential oil, Valor® essential oil
Apply topically to the posterior neck and the base of the occiput (the back part of the head or skull).
The throat chakra is the center of communication, sound, and expression of creativity via thought, speech, and writing.

Sixth – Third Eye

Essential oils: Frankincense essential oil, Peppermint essential oil
Apply topically to the middle of the forehead and above the eyebrows.
The third eye chakra is the center of physic power, higher intuition, the energies of the spirit, magnetic forces, and light. This center is about Divine Thought, balanced intuition, and intellect.

Seventh – Crown

Essential oils: Frankincense essential oil, Lavender essential oil
Apply to the crown (top) of the head.
The crown chakra is the center of spirituality, enlightenment, dynamic thought, and energy. The keyword is inspiration. This is the connecting link to your highest and finest self.

Yoga and Essential Oils

Many yoga enthusiasts who use essential oils find that the fragrances of pure oils stimulate nerves in the nose.  In turn, these impulses stimulate the limbic system, where memories, instincts, and vital functions are controlled and processed.  Main body functions such as digestion, respiration, cardiovascular activity and stress levels can be brought into balance.

By using essential oils with your yoga practice, you may experience:

• Less muscle and joint tension
• Increased stamina
• Strengthened body-mind connection
• Deepened mental and emotional grounding
• Refined focus and mental clarity

Apply to feet bottoms, brain stem, chakras, crown or temples and inhale; or wherever you’re drawn to apply.