These are pretty interesting. I admit I’ve never really been into chakras, but these posts are a pretty good intro.

Do you have a way that you perceive your chakras? Do you perceive other people’s but not your own?

Sometimes I get messages about the chakras in different ways, too. I wouldn’t be surprised if you get yours in vibrations or by feeling rhythms, since you’re musically inclined. I sometimes do, too. But you may have something completely different…and you may have different perceptions come up for you at different times in your life. So just because you haven’t noticed colors or smells yet, doesn’t mean you never will.

What does it mean if you don’t notice any colours or smells associated with your chakras, vs if you do?

The kind of work I do tends to be more about “how can we fix the problem?” and less about “what caused the problem in the first place?”, so to me it is more useful to know simply that I’m likely to find this energy in a particular location and what to do with it when I find it there, than it is for me to know what caused it to choose that location…if that makes sense.

The Sevenfold Journey by Anodea Judith and Selene Vega
Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith
The Book of Chakras by Ambika Wauters

What kind of information would be useful to you, more specifically?

I know that for me, I found it most helpful to learn a little basic information about each chakra from reading books, a LOT of information directly from teachers and other healers, and then that the bulk of what I know about them has come from actually working on my own and on other people’s. Everyone’s learning needs are different — I know when I first started reading Tarot, for instance, it was very important for me to NOT read anything about the cards in books and really work intuitively. I still go back and forth with this because I’ve gotten a lot of really good insights from learning “objective” information about the cards, and I also sometimes have a greater challenge relying on my intuition now that I “know” more about the cards. However, this hasn’t been as much of an issue with bodywork. Other people have different needs for being able to work comfortably with different energies — I don’t think any one way is “better” than others.

My intention is eventually to create a more cohesive resource which will include information tying all the chakras together and explaining more about the system as a whole.