Cyndi Dale is an internationally respected author and spiritual scholar whose books include the Gold Nautilus Award-winning The Subtle Body and Energetic Boundaries. She is President of Life Systems Services and has conducted trainings across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

This handy volume is part of Llewellyn's series of little books exploring the marvels and mysteries of our world. She defines chakras in the following ways:

  • As a framework for your body, mind and soul.
  • As multi-performing vortices
  • As transformers

These subtle energy bodies affect the body, mind, and soul. With clarity and zest, Dale explains the seven classical Hindu chakras, identifying each one's purpose, color, associated gland, body parts managed, related disease, chakra activation, psychological functions, archetypes, ruling god, ruling goddess, ruling planet, components, symbols, spiritual abilities, and related auric field.

This is a helpful and wide-ranging overview of the benefits coming from the seven chakras.