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Why We Should Work with the Body and Chakras in Modern Therapy

In contemporary therapy, especially as we move beyond talk-based approaches into more integrative, holistic models of healing, it’s increasingly clear that the body holds far more than just physical experience, it holds memory, trauma, emotional patterning, and deep wisdom. This is where working with the body, and specifically the energetic system often referred to as the chakras, becomes not only relevant but essential.

The Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets

Modern neuroscience and somatic psychology have shown us that trauma and unresolved emotional experiences aren’t just stored as narrative memories in the brain; they’re often stored somatically; in the tissues, posture, breath, and internal rhythms of the body. This understanding aligns closely with ancient chakra systems, which view the body as an energetic map of lived experience. Chakra work is an ancient art.

Each chakra, from root to crown, can be seen as a metaphorical and literal center where certain types of psychological and emotional experiences live. For example:

• Root (Muladhara): Associated with safety, survival, and belonging—core themes in attachment theory and early developmental psychology.

• Solar Plexus (Manipura): The seat of personal power, self-worth, and autonomy, central to identity and self-esteem.

• Heart (Anahata): Tied to relationships, with others and ourselves, compassion, and grief so are key areas in relational therapy and trauma work.

• Throat (Vishuddha): Governs expression and truth, making it, essential in healing suppressed emotions and finding voice.

These energy centres are not just imaginary spiritual energy centres, they correspond closely with major nerve plexuses, endocrine glands, and neuropsychological functions. In this way, chakras can be a user-friendly and symbolic language for understanding how emotions, beliefs, and physical sensations intertwine.

Regulating Through the Body

Working with the body directly, through breath work, movement, somatic tracking, or even chakra-focused visualisation, activates the parasympathetic nervous system, helps regulate the stress response, and creates new neural pathways that support resilience and integration. This is especially powerful for clients who are highly cognitive, dissociated, or stuck in analytical loops that traditional talk therapy can’t always reach.

Therapies that incorporate the body, such as Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), are increasingly validating the need to feel and process experience physically. Chakras, when used wisely, offer a focused and symbolic entry point into these bodily explorations.

Bridging Science and Soul

Ultimately, integrating chakra work in therapy isn’t about mysticism or dogma and it’s about offering clients multiple doorways to access and process their inner world. Chakras function as a symbolic, somatically grounded map of human experience and one that resonates with both modern psychology and ancient wisdom. In a therapeutic context, they can help clients understand their inner blocks, restore flow, by listening and focusing, to potentially,

reclaim parts of themselves that have been frozen in time or lost through disconnection.