Chakra Center Playlists +1
Click on the chakra center in the grid above to listen to the Spotify Playlists I’ve used on my healing journey the past 5 years. Each playlist contains about an hour’s worth of music that connects me to each of these centers. Which one is your favorite?
Two of the most frequent questions people ask me these days are: “How did you begin your own healing journey?” and “What kind of music do you listen to?” Although from my colleagues, it’s often: “Where do you find the music you play during your sessions/workshops?”
My answer to that last question is always Spotify! I have been in love with Spotify since it started. Even as kid, I didn’t like the radio, and I preferred to make my own mixed tapes (yes, cassette tapes!) of songs I had carefully curated as an 8 year old obsessed with Bette Midler, Dolly Parton and Patsy Cline.
And so, I began my spiritual path in an Open Floor Thursday morning class taught by Kathy Altman in April of 2016. I had moved out to the San Francisco Bay Area about 6 years before then to work on a MFA in Nonfiction writing and had been working on an essay and large-scale art installation called “The Red Frame.” I had also been looking for a dance class to take. I had been in and out of tap, ballet, jazz and hip hop dance classes throughout my formative years, and I always quit before the final performance because I refused to practice on my own time and did not like following other people’s visions or choreography. I just liked to move. And that morning in April, I did. I danced like I hadn’t danced since I was a kid, and towards the end of class, when Kathy had us sit and meditate with the imagery of a mountain and a river flowing, the entire room glowed green for me, and I knew I had just opened up my heart chakra. And, that heart chakra has been my center and guide along my entire spiritual journey from that morning when it first awoke inside of me to now when I am a leader, teacher and mentor myself.
At this point, all of my centers have opened. The last one to open towards the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 was my sacral center—the life force—that is a great source of vitality, energy and creativity. I am still learning how to connect with it and forge a deeper relationship with all of my chakra centers in both the traditional sense and within the 9 center system of Human Design, which differentiates between the heart as an emotional center where the organ is and the G in the middle of the chest as the source of our true identity. It also includes the spleen as our intuitive center, and it’s especially meaningful for my own body graph, as I am a Splenic Projector, and the only centers I have defined are the throat, G and spleen.
I am continuously amazed at how things come back around in life. It’s one of the more profound things I’ve come to accept on my spiritual journey! In addition to the chakra centers coming back into play for my own self-growth this year, I’ve also committed to finishing my Red Collection of essays that began with “The Red Frame” ten and a half years ago. This collection is the whole story of my healing journey since birth through now, and it’s the fullest expression of my whole self that I have created thus far. I’m so excited to complete this part of my own journey that I wanted to share the music that has inspired me along the way with all of you in the hopes that it might inspire you as well on your journey!
