The Chakra Diaries (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Rebecca: The workshop leader, Rebecca, is a beautiful, compassionate counselor and yoga instructor. She leads an 8-week chakra workshop where participants learn how to balance their chakras and change their lives for the better, emotionally, physically and spiritually. She's not immune to love and passion herself, and falls deeply in love with the one person in the workshop she cannot have.
• Estrella: Estrella is a 20-year-old who finds herself in a homeless shelter in Los Angeles, after leaving her unhappy home on Long Island and a series of sexual adventures that ended badly. Rebecca, who volunteers at the shelter, takes her under her wing, and invites her to join the chakra workshop. Estrella's challenge is to find a sense of security and safety by balancing her first chakra, the root chakra. Will she find the strength to decide for herself, who she is and where she belongs?
• Barry: Fortyish, a failure at fathering, loving, and making a living, Barry also needs to start with his root chakra to find balance and security. Once he does that, all of his chakras move into line and he finds his heart chakra opening up with love and compassion toward his clients, his son, and the other workshop participants, one in particular. Will his erotic emails awaken similar feelings in her heart?
• Deborah: "Sex on the Rocks" is what she entitles her diary. She's just turned forty and lost her sex drive, while her handsome, Clark Gable of a husband falls asleep watching Sportscenter in the den each evening. Can she find her creativity and passion again by balancing her sacral chakra or will Los Angeles continue to be a dry wasteland for her?
• Sarah: Also working on her second (sacral) chakra, Sarah has left a life as a Beachy Amish in Belize for a lesbian spree in Los Angeles. She meets an intriguing man, Tony, who causes her to question not only her sexuality, but the meaning of her life. Will she balance her sacral chakra and move in the direction that's right for her?
• Carol: Always playing the victim, Carol's anger keeps her from having anything in her life that she wants. Can she balance her solar plexus, the third chakra, and find the power to forgive the past and have hope for the future?
• Jean: Jean blames the ghost of her grandmother for all her woes. Can she also increase her personal power in her solar plexus chakra to exorcise her demons, change her decisions and change her life?
• Julie: Julie is an alternative healer, who finds she cannot heal herself when she finally goes to a conventional M.D. and gets the diagnosis of melanoma. Can balancing her heart chakra, where she has stored a lifetime of anger, let her life force flow freely again so she can heal?
• Tony: Tony is a handsome African-American millionaire who lost both his parents and his sense of self at the age of 18. He finds it hard to communicate his feelings or true self, until he meets the gorgeous Sarah. But even after he balances his throat chakra, will he have the right words to win her love?
• Mark: Mark describes himself as a "Runaway Train," caught up in taking care of his girlfriend Julie, but falling for Rebecca, the workshop leader, when he joins the chakra workshop. Always blessed with psychic powers, will he learn to balance his third eye chakra and use his visions to uncover the true meaning of love?

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• “"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi”

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• Kauai
• Los Angeles
• Rio
• Long Island

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Glossary edit see section history

• Chakras: The vital energy centers of the body, part of the yogic tradition.

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• Love: Through chakra balancing, the diary writers find the power of love to heal their lives.
• Heart Chakra cover art: Describe this theme.

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1. Becca Chopra (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Literature & Fiction

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• www.TheChakras.org: More information on The Chakra Diaries, chakra balancing meditations, a Chakra Chatter blog offering advice on all matters of holistic health, and free downloads of chakra posters and giveaways.