Chakra Essential Oils:

Use the Power (and Pleasure) of Aromatherapy to Support Your Chakras

Read on for the essential oils recommended for each of the 7 chakras, and two methods for using them for healing.

(But first, if you need a refresher on what chakras are, you can go here for a general overview, or here for more detailed information.

Chakra Essential Oils

1. Root Chakra Essential Oils

   sandalwood, patchouli, cypress, elemi, cedarwood or cedar, rosewood, frankincense, clary sage, vetiver, carrot, cardamon, clove, oakmoss, ginger, benzoin.

2. Sacral Chakra Essential Oils

   Clary sage, geranium, jasmine, melissa, neroli, ylang ylang, tangerine, oakmoss, rose, rose geranium, vetiver, patchouli, vanilla, cinnamon

3. Navel Chakra Essential Oils

   juniper, frankincense, sandalwood, fennel, vetiver, cedarwood, lavender, helichrysum, myrrh, ginger, lemon, lemongrass, black pepper, rosemary, marjoram, oregano, thyme, cinnamon, peppermint

4. Heart Chakra Essential Oils

   rose, geranium, bergamot, neroli, melissa, sandalwood, chamomile, ylang ylang, jasmine, lavender, vanilla

5. Throat Chakra Essential Oils

   lavender, Roman and German Chamomile, spearmint, frankincense, cypress, geranium, spruce, sandalwood, tea tree, mandarin

6. Brow (Third Eye) Chakra Essential Oils

   frankincense, cedar, spruce, pine, rose, rosemary, clary sage, oregano, marjoram, thyme, lavender

7. Crown Chakra Essential Oils

   frankincense, benzoin, jasmine, myrrh, sandalwood, spruce, lavender, rose, ravensara, basil, rosemary

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Energy Healing Method for Using Chakra Essential Oils

I'll explain two commonly used method here. Don't let that stop you from creating your own ways to use them. (See below for safety rules, though.)

Keep in mind that the way to make any subtle energy technique effective is to do it mindfully, with sacred intention to support the health of your energy system.

You can do a healing in which you treat each of the seven chakras, or you can just do a "spot treatment" for a particular chakra that's feeling "off" if you have less time.

(How do you tell if a chakra is "off"? You can learn about how chakra blockages and imbalances manifest for each of the 7 chakras here .)

Annointing the Chakras

1. Select the chakra essential oils that you will be using. I wouldn't choose more than one oil per chakra for a session.
2. Create your annointing oil. Blend each essential oil with a carrier oil such as jojoba or grapeseed oil at a dilution of 1-10 drops of essential oil per ounce of carrier oil. (This is vibrational medicine, and a very, very diluted blend will do.) Label each blend.
3. Put your annointing oil blends in a place where they'll be accessible to you you once you lie down.
4. Lie down on a comfortable surface, wearing loose clothes that you don't mind getting oil on. Attend to your comfort with a blanket and a pillow under your knees or head if needed. Take a few minutes to breathe deeply and slowly into your belly (actually into the lower third of your lungs, but your belly will rise and fall if you're doing it correctly!).
5. Set your intention for this healing session. If you're just going to work with one chakra, set the specific intention for that chakra. If you're going to work with all the chakras, set a general intention for this healing.
6. If you're only going to work with one chakra, annoint the chakra with the essential oil you have chosen. Use only a few drops, and apply it slowly in a clockwise direction with your fingertips.
7. For the root chakra, you can annoint the soles of your feet, or your low back.
8. If you're going to work with the whole chakra system, you can proceed in either of two ways. You can start at the crown chakra and work your way down, in order, to the first chakra (sky to earth--e.g. for helping ground and center, relieve headaches and anxiety, manifest something on a physical plane); or you can go the other way, starting at the root chakra and working your way up to the crown (earth to sky--e.g. for raising energy to a higher vibration, enhancing spiritual development, increasing physical energy). Don't worry about the direction choice--just go with what feels right.
9. As you annoint each chakra, you may want to set a specific intention for the healing of that particular chakra, sense the energy of the oil, and visualize its harmonious energy opening, balancing, and "tuning" the chakra.
10. After all the chakras have been annointed, simply rest for a while, allowing your chakras to be balanced and cleared by the oils. Breathe slowly and evenly; empty your mind as much as possible, going into the "space between thoughts."
11. When it feels right, end the healing.
12. Gently return your awareness to the here and now, and allow yourself to transition slowly back into your daily life. Drink a glass of water, and perhaps eat a piece of fruit.
13. You may want to write in your journal about what you've experienced.
14. Watch for gentle, positive changes for the next week or so.

Diffusion Method
This works best if you're working with one chakra. Following the directions that came with your diffuser, diffuse your chosen oil. Set your intention for healing, sense the energy of the oil, and visualize its harmonious energy opening, balancing, and "tuning" the chakra. Meditate, rest, or practice yoga for a half an hour or so. In particular, doing yoga that opens and stretches the area of the body near the selected chakra may be helpful.

How Does Essential Oil Healing Work?

Anything that has a harmonious, orderly energy pattern/vibration can help to entrain our energy back to a harmonious state. (Kind of like a tuning fork.)

Pure essential oils have that inherent harmony and order in their energy pattern. Like anything with harmonious energy, they can be used to heal the chakras.

Each type of oil resonates with a slightly different energy pattern/vibrates on a different frequency, and will relate more closely to the ideal energy pattern of one of your chakras. Its pure resonance can be used to help that chakra return to its ideal vibration or energy pattern and a higher state of health.

Like any subtle energy method of healing, the user's intention is critical. A pure healing intention is the most important key to making the healing work.

Safety Rules for Working with Essential Oils

Do not:

• use them undiluted or in strong concentrations on your skin
• use in any form on your genitals or mucous membranes
• apply to broken or irritated skin
• take them internally
• use on young children (unless you absolutely know what you are doing)
• use them without doing a patch test if you tend toward allergies
• use them if you are pregnant without checking first to see if they are pregnancy-safe
• expose them to open flame
• put within reach of children.

More Ways to Heal Your Chakras

Learn why and how to balance your chakras here.

Learn fun, down-to-earth ways to open your chakras here.

You can learn a chakra-healing meditation here .

Learn about chakra tones and how to open and balance your chakras with vocal toning here .

Learn about chakra stones and gems and how to use them at this page.

This is a wonderful Youtube meditation for balancing and opening the chakras.

Ways to Tell if A Chakra Is Open or Blocked

You can learn about how chakra blockages manifest for each of the 7 chakras here .

You can learn what variations and impurities in chakra colors mean here .

Learning About Your Own Chakras

More Information About Chakras

For more specific information about individual chakras, go to the Chakra Chart page.

Go from Chakra Essential Oils to Chakras main page.

Go to The Energy Healing Site home page .