The ancient Indian system of seven energy centres called chakras is now revitalized for modern humanity in the new age. The whole human energy system is naturally divided into seven places or centres - just like there are seven colours in the rainbow - when all those seven are fully illuminated enlightenment can occur. The Sanskrit word chakra means wheel, to indicate the alive moving energy centre that can be experienced in the aura and body. Now we include fuller sections of the body as well as the understanding that the chakras exist within the four levels of our being - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

To illuminate the chakras means firstly we have to activate their dormant energies, as normally our chakras are not developed or are functioning unconsciously, they need to be purified and transformed.

Each chakra governs an area of our life - survival and sexuality, relationships, power, love, creativity, intuition and meditation. By working with our chakras consciously we can learn these life lessons more effectively and progress to higher levels of love and awareness.

In this workshop we will explore each chakra with Osho Therapy exercises and Osho Active Meditations. We will be following Osho’s teaching of the seven chakras. Osho’s teaching is radically different from spiritual traditions which have emphasised the opening of only the higher chakras and taught us to avoid the lower chakras, Osho’s vision is that of “Zorba the Buddha.” Zorba symbolises a person who enjoys life in the material world and of course a Buddha is someone who celebrates life in the spiritual world.

Man is a rainbow, all the seven colours together. That is his beauty and that is his problem too. Man is multi-faceted, multi-dimensional. His being is not simple, it is a great complexity. And out of that complexity is born the harmony we call God: the divine melody.

So the first thing to be understood about man is that man is not yet. Man is only a possibility, a potentiality. Man can be, man is a promise. The dog is, the rock is, the sun is... man CAN BE. Hence the anxiety and anguish -- one can miss too; there is no certainty. You may flower, you may not flower. Hence the shivering, the shaking, the trembling inside: "Who knows whether I will be able to do it or not?"

Man is a bridge between the animal and the divine. The animals are tremendously happy -- of course not aware, not CONSCIOUSLY happy, but tremendously happy, unworried, non-neurotic. God is tremendously happy and conscious. Man is just in between the two, in limbo, always wavering -- to be or not to be?

Man is a rainbow, I say, because a rainbow will give you the total perspective in which man can be understood -- from the lowest to the highest. The rainbow has seven colours, man has seven centres of his being. The allegory of the seven is very ancient. In India, the allegory has taken the form of seven chakras: the lowest is MULADHAR and the highest is SAHASRAR and between these two are five steps, five more chakras. And man has to pass through all these seven chakras -- seven steps towards the divine.

Osho – The Divine Melody #3