A no-nonsense beginner’s guide to equine chakras

Look, I’m under no illusions; what I do as an intuitive animal communicator IS pretty woo, I get it. The thing is that I’m also a pragmatist, and it’s no use using vague and fluffy language if nobody can understand what you mean. It’s hard enough working with invisible life force, let alone trying to describe it, but I like a challenge and I can’t find anybody else’s description that is grounded enough for me so without further ado, here’s my guide to the equine chakra system and why it is relevant to intuitive animal communication.

First up; definitions. When talking about concepts that are sensed rather than visible to the naked eye, we tend to throw the term energy around a lot. It’s a useful word, but what does it mean? Well in my book it means the subtle life force that can be sensed in and around living beings. It is my experience that most of us don’t notice life force energy much until we learn how to tune in to it. Think of it like an old-fashioned radio - when you switch it on before tuning it, all you hear is static. When you tune in to the right frequency, suddenly you can hear the proclaimers singing about just how many miles they would walk for you. With training and practice, each of us can learn how to sense the energy around living beings. That’s what an aura is: the field of energy that surrounds a living being.

Have I lost anybody yet? Hopefully not. Right, let’s carry on.

A chakra is a focal point of energy in a living being. There are seven chakras, and some of them correspond nicely with some of the major endocrine (hormone) glands found in all mammals. We can tune in to an animal’s chakras through their energy field(aura), in order to learn more about how that animal is. Most importantly for intuitive animal communication, connecting our heart chakra to the animal’s heart chakra is how we open a communication; a bit like picking up the phone and dialling the number for the person you want to speak to. On a phone call the connection happens when the other person answers the phone; in animal communication it happens when the animal allows our two heart’s energies to connect.

So, what are the seven chakras?

In order from top to bottom:

Crown Chakra

The crown chakra is located at the top of the head. It is the chakra that corresponds to the brain, in particular the pineal gland, and therefore represents the mind too. Several religions associate the pineal gland with connection to spirit, so it is an energy centre that is associated with spirituality and connection with the universe. Stay with me if that’s too woo for you to imagine in animals, because I associate the crown chakra with how much of a thinker an animal is, how much sleep they get, and/or their general sense of purpose. An imbalance in the crown chakra (i.e. if we tune in to the energy of a chakra and we perceive it as either less or more active than average) can be associated with e.g. a horse who overthinks, or one who has lost their sense of purpose. There is a colour associated with each chakra too - if you train yourself to perceive energy with sight, you’re most likely to see the energy around the crown chakra as a violet purple, or white light.

Third Eye Chakra

On to the third eye chakra then. This is found on the forehead of animals and humans, and is represented by the colour indigo blue. It corresponds to the pituitary gland, which secretes hormones controlling and influencing several systems in the body. It’s the part of the body associated with clairvoyance, i.e. seeing things in the mind’s eye as a psychic. It is important as an animal communicator as this area is activated when we receive pictures that our animals are sending to us, or when we are able to tune in to see through their eyes. I’ve found that horses are often very sensitive to touch in this area if they are using this chakra - e.g. when they are in communication with a communicator, or they are receiving healing (a therapy which aims to help energy to come back into balance and therefore support full health). An imbalance in this area could relate to headaches, problems with the eyes, mouth or sinuses, or with the central nervous system.

Throat Chakra

In the neck lies the throat chakra. If we think about the biological structures in the horse’s neck we have their throat including vocal chords, oesophagus and trachea, and the thyroid gland. Problems in this area then may relate to communication (particularly self-expression), the respiratory system, or metabolism. A horse who is a bit of a dominant bully may have overactive energy in this chakra, whereas one who always hangs back or who you get the feeling is compliant without expressing their own opinions or needs may have underactive energy in this area. It’s colour is usually perceived as light blue.

Heart Chakra

The heart chakra is my favourite of all: the seat of love, and the doorway to animal communication! Obviously the organs it relates to includes the heart, but we’ve also got the lungs and thymus gland (which supports the immune system) in the area too. It’s colour is often perceived as light pink, though in energy terms it is more often depicted as green. Though size isn’t really a concept that works well with chakras, I do tend to find that a horse’s heart chakra radiates the broadest and is therefore often the easiest to find.

On to the lower chakras then - I think of these as the most grounded in pragmatism.

Solar Plexus Chakra

Our solar plexus chakra might be better described as the stomach chakra, and relates to almost all things digestive. We’ve got the pancreas there, stomach, liver and early intestine. It’s also close to the spine, and is yellow in colour.

Sacral Chakra

In the Sacral chakra area is the bladder, the kidneys and a portion of the gut. There is some debate about if the adrenal glands correspond to the sacral chakra or the base chakra; in my view there can be a cross-over, but the sacral chakra is the one I tend to relate to them. The adrenals control stress hormones and energy function. This is the orange chakra.

Base Chakra

Finally the base chakra is at the very base of the pelvis and spine. It governs the reproductive tracts of both mares and stallions and the gut. It’s influence is about primal instincts; not just reproductive but gut instinct, safety and how grounded an animal is in the present. It’s colour is red.

I hope this guide helps you to make sense of the chakra system in horses, and why it is relevant to our intuitive communication work.

If you’d like to foster a more intuitive relationship with your horse I’ve got you covered with this free PDF guide.

If you’re thinking about developing your intuitive animal communication skills you will want to download this one too.

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