Getting Steamy With Color: Chakra Healing Colors In The Sauna

     Gym membership is such a great thing, if only for the sauna and the chance it gives you to work through a bit of chakra healing! While healing my body in this way, I’m always aware of the energy flow within my body and its balance as I work up a sweat. In the warmth and darkness of most saunas you can check in to your chakras as you workout too. 

     Having an understanding of these colors will give you a really great insight into what’s happening materially and emotionally in your life and being aware of the colors that drift into your consciousness will give you pointers on what action to take. If you find you’re exercising in a cloud of yellow, for example, take note that you probably need to set more stringent boundaries for yourself and foster a bit of self-respect.

     But as we can equally intuit the colors flying around our aura, we can also draw inspiration from external sources. Colors are routinely used in saunas in Germany and this is something I realized I was missing the other day as I sat in my local sauna in Ireland.

     Wherever you are, it’s wonderful to clear out your system and feel the toxins flooding away in the heat, but you can focus on cleansing a particular chakra if you physically bathe in the color of that chakra. 

     As you sit in the heat, it helps if a sauna is a light place filled with colorful rays that you can physically bathe in. None of this dingy sweating away in darkness that seems to be so prevalent elsewhere. More importantly the lights change in a sequence that provides you with all the colors of the rainbow. That means that every one of the seven main chakras is influenced in turn. You don’t need to know the meanings of all the healing colors but it can help you focus on the healing properties.

     If you’re really lucky you’ll find that some saunas will play bells to accompany the colors. This is such a wonderfully all encompassing experience.

     Even in the absence of the bells, however, if you relax and let yourself dissolve into the color you’ll find that there’s a subliminal hum – the hum of the Universal energy – that resonates with your body. As the colors change the resonance alters and this becomes the most natural and spiritual melody in the world.

     In the absence of lights in the sauna I attend, I’ve started to visualize the colors. Believe me, it works just as well but you need a bit more discipline and it helps if you have a vivid imagination. It means, however, that wherever you are experiencing the joys of detoxing in a sauna, you can reap the benefits of chakra colors in the sauna and the sound of healing colors music.