Glen Park - Chakra Healing Therapy

With love and gratitude to my twin sons, Joe and Chris, who have profoundly enriched my life

Chakra Healing
THERAPY

Chakra Healing Therapy offers an invaluable model for clear understanding of the relationship of chakras to health, mental well-being, and spiritual transformation. It is the most clear and in-depth exposition of the chakra system I have read and includes beautiful charts and diagrams; solid references related to research, psychology, and transpersonal theories of development; and specific practices for balancing chakras and grounding, many based on the Alexander Technique. Eastern theories of the chakras are integrated with Western developmental stages and correlated with various stages of life. The author shows the relationship of chakras to the endocrine system and neurology, suggests causes and solutions for chakra imbalances, and provides studies demonstrating the impact of body therapy on correcting chakra imbalances. This is an excellent reference for therapists and anyone with an interest in enlivening, balancing, and transforming their subtle energy system.

BONNIE GREENWELL, PH.D.,PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND AUTHOR OF WHEN SPIRIT LEAPS, THE KUNDALINI GUIDE, AND THE AWAKENING GUIDE

Glen Parks Chakra Healing Therapy is a modern guide to ancient insightshow the entire universe is intelligent and conscious, and how these qualities envelop and manifest in the human body. This book is important for anyone who is interested in spiritual evolution.

LARRY DOSSEY, M.D., AUTHOR OF ONE MIND

I am sure Chakra Healing Therapy will be of great value to suffering humanity at a time when deep trauma, past and present, is affecting the lives of millions all over the planet.

ANNE BARING, PH.D.,AUTHOR OF THE DREAM OF THE COSMOS

Chakra Healing Therapy is a tour de force, integrating the Alexander Technique, energy therapy, developmental psychology, and spiritual wisdom into an easy-to-understand, practical guide for personal healing and transformation you can develop on your own. Glen Parks vast research and professional experience culminate in the most comprehensive, readable text Ive seen for holistic personal growth, from healing fundamental wounds to advanced spiritual actualization.

JENNY WADE, PH.D.,DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST AND AUTHOR OF CHANGES OF MIND

Chakra Healing Therapy is groundbreaking in its unification of the Eastern wisdom of the chakras with Western psychology. It is both visionary in its scope and practical in its application, showing a truly holistic way of understanding psychological health and illness in which the chakras mirror back the development of the individual. This book will be of immense value to professional therapists and anyone seeking to maximize their own health and well-being.

CAROLE TAYLOR,ASTROLOGER AND AUTHOR OF ASTROLOGY: USING THE WISDOM OF THE STARS IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE

Glen Parks passion to understand and illuminate the secrets of the chakras finds an engaging and profoundly useful expression in this wonderful book. Highly recommended for all who care about self-healing, healing others, and helping to heal the world.

MICHAEL J. GELB,AUTHOR OF BODY LEARNING AND HOW TO THINK LIKE LEONARDO DA VINCI

Prana, the chakras, and kundalini originate from and are central to the Tantric and Shakti yogic traditions, but the classic texts can be dense, culture bound, and obscure. Glen Parks book is the result of decades of practice and is based on her lived experience. She offers a clear, thorough, and accessible book on the chakras and subtle energy system.

DAVID MOORE,DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL FOR F.M. ALEXANDER STUDIES IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, AND AUTHOR OF SMART YOGA AND YOGA AND THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

There have been many books written on the chakras but none more comprehensive and incisive as Chakra Healing Therapy. Glen Park has achieved a most thorough synthesis of Western psychology and Eastern wisdom, shedding new light on the chakra system.

JAMES DANGELO, PH.D.,COMPOSER, WORKSHOP LEADER, AND AUTHOR OF SEED SOUNDS FOR TUNING THE CHAKRAS AND THE HEALING POWER OF THE HUMAN VOICE

In Chakra Healing Therapy, Glen Park lays out a historic and fundamental understanding of the seven energy bodies: how they influence and support our physical, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual development. Park provides case studies from her healing therapy practice, including personal exercises for healing developmental wounds. An excellent read and exploration for young therapists of any discipline.

GRAY WOLF,INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC THERAPIST

Glen Park has written a lucid, informative, and well-illustrated book on the chakras and human development. She brings 30 years of working with the energy of the chakras and the Alexander Technique, and I can honestly say that I learned something new and interesting on every page.

RICHARD BRENNAN, AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR OF TRAINING AT THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE CENTRE, IRELAND

Acknowledgments

This book has been gestating inside me for over thirty years, and I am grateful to all the many people who have influenced me during those yearsteachers, students, clients, friends, and familyand for the gifts I have received from the work of authors, artists, and other creative people. How lucky I have been to live in this place, in this time.

In particular, I wish to acknowledge Don Burton, Ivy Northage, and Michael Symonds, three teachers who are now no longer with us on this earth plane, and who changed my life, planting the seeds from which this book and this life have grown.

Julie McDonald, artist and friend, an extremely kind and understanding collaborator, worked wonders translating my inner visual ideas into illustrations that caught my vision beautifully. James Whelan helped me enormously with translations of ancient Sanskrit and Persian texts, clarifying meanings of key words, and creating a version of a favorite Rumi poem.

I am extremely grateful to my family: my son, Joe Park-Kennaby, who created most of the diagrams, and his brother and father, Chris and John, who helped guide me through the digital forest of sourcing, organizing, and submitting the artwork. Thanks also to my brother, Mick Stacey, and all my extended family for their love and support during the years of writing.

I have had great help from friends who have read parts of the text and given valuable feedback. In particular, I would like to thank Ray Howell, Caroline Canner, Carole Taylor, and James DAngelo, among others.

My colleagues, students, and clients have been sources of extraordinary personal wisdom about the mind-body relationship. My thanks to all the people I have worked with, especially those upon whom I have based the case studies included in this book, having changed all the names and identifying details and, in some instances, created composites from clients working through similar issues.

Last but by no means least, I would like to thank everyone at Inner Traditions for the care and attention to detail they have shown in bringing this book into the light of day. In particular, I would like to thank my project editor, Jamaica Burns Griffin, for the creative support she has given me during this process.