Your Yoga. Chakra-Spinning Practice.

The Practice of Spinning the Chakras

I have presented most of this practice in the video, so watch it below first. Select 1080 for the best picture quality.

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The practice is simple and, I would even say, interesting: engaging, like a game, reminiscent of childhood games with colourful balls. I would also add that elements of this practice appear in folk dances around the world. Surely you can recall dances from your own tradition in which girls rotate their fists and elbows in front of them. Where does this come from? From ancient times. I am even sure that if you have children, they will not leave you alone until you teach them how to do it.

Description of the Practice

The whole process is as though seven little balls were strung along the sushumna energy channel in front of you. You raise your palms along this channel and spin each ball: first the lowest, then move up to the second, the third, and finally the seventh.
Be sure to hold the mudras I show in the video with both hands. Each chakra has its own mudra. Mudras are like switches in a relay. There is nothing complicated about them: first simply move your thumb from the little finger to the index finger for the first four chakras. Then do the same with pairs of fingers for the three higher chakras.
Each time you rotate your hands in front of a chakra, concentrate on that chakra within your body. Then move higher and higher.
The practice may take only a few minutes. I recommend spending a minute on each chakra, but you can also use a quicker version. For example, in the morning, simply work through all the chakras as a kind of exercise. It is easy and even entertaining. You can spend just one minute on the whole practice at any time.
You can do it standing or sitting, preferably with your back straight.
Chanting the mantra for each chakra is also recommended, although it is not essential. The mantras are given in the video.

A brief introduction to the chakras:

Muladhara is the chakra of Creation, the root of everything, that from which everything emerged. It is the primordial Energy of the Universe. It unites all the simplest organisms; in this realm we are all one. You know that our body consists of a multitude of living cells, literally living their own lives — trillions of them. And in this we are all one.
Svadhisthana is development and reproduction. Complex organisms began to form from the simplest ones. Life began to give rise to life. In the realm of svadhisthana, we are one with the universal power of procreation. This is powerful sexual energy that enables life to continue.
Manipura is the very force of life. Once beings had appeared and begun to reproduce, the all-encompassing force of life began to manifest: immunity, the will to exist and the ability to survive. We see that every living thing strives to live, clings to its existence and fights for it in every possible way. In this realm, the realm of muladhara, we are one with the force of life.
Anahata is feelings and emotions. Once living beings had been created, begun to reproduce themselves and grown strong, establishing their ability to survive and their strength, feelings became the next stage of their journey. In the realm of anahata, we are all one with the all-encompassing source of every feeling, foremost among them love.
Vishuddha is spirituality. It is what raises us above feelings — or, more precisely, transforms feelings to their highest level and refines them. For example, material love is transformed into spiritual love, and so on. In the realm of this chakra, we are one with the gods, with the higher beings of the universe.
Ajna gives us the gift of seeing everything as it truly is. In this realm we rise above the gods. We rise above every manifestation of feeling; feelings can no longer distort reality. Our consciousness becomes like a still mountain lake, without a ripple, reflecting objects with perfect accuracy. We attain knowledge.
Sahasrara gives us unity with the Creator: Enlightenment. We do not merely know everything; we become one with what we know. We can govern reality and matter — doing what is called the impossible, working miracles. Whatever we touch begins to liberate other beings. We become Light.

Notes

You can also perform the practice in a slightly different way: work from the first chakra to the seventh several times, as though doing several rounds of the practice in succession. Make a few rotations at one chakra, move up to the next and make a few rotations there, then continue upwards. When you reach sahasrara, make a few rotations for it, immediately lower your hands to the first chakra and repeat everything. Do this several times. Try it; you may prefer this version. Think of having seven spinning tops: once you have set them spinning, you return to each one to keep it going, giving it more rotational movement again and again.

See also the practice "Opening, Strengthening and Spinning the Chakras".

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