Chakra Tonics: Essential Elixirs for the Mind, Body, and Spirit

by Elise Marie Collins

The art of chakra balancing has never been tastier. Spiritual counselor and yoga instructor Elise Collins has created the perfect guide and recipe book of smoothies, teas, and tonics to boost your energy centers. Chakras and shakers. Our ancestors believed ingredients from the natural world cured not only physical ailments, but spiritual ones as well. Drawing on ancient wisdom, Elise’s restorative recipes contain powerful superfoods, herbs, minerals, and ph-balanced liquids designed to nourish the physical body and revitalize its central energy system. Target your chakras with tonics. As you make your way through the chakra chart, find recipes that specifically target each chakra and clear out stale energy. And with bonus yoga techniques, learn how to release energy for Vedic vitality. For prolonged balance of mind and body, look for recipes If you enjoyed books like Healing Tonics, Juices, and Smoothies , The Ultimate Guide to Chakras , and Chakra Healing , then Chakra Tonics is your next read!

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

142 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

A yoga foodie, Elise loves to shop and hunt for healing foods. She has been teaching yoga for over ten years and eating her entire life. Through her yoga and meditation practice, Elise became more in touch with the importance of what we put in our bodies and how food affects us spiritually, mentally and physically.She is the author of An A-Z Guide to Healing Foods, A Shoppers Companion and Chakra Tonics, Essential Elixirs for Mind, Body and Spirit, both published by Conari press."

Reviews

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chakra Tonics is a multifunctional book. This book starts off noting the basic foundational beliefs about chakras, explaining that there are numerous philosophies and interpretations and the reader should explore these variations in order to come up with his or her own theories in this regard. I really found this aspect refreshing as many such books never admit that there are alternative thoughts on the subject let alone encourage the reader to make up his or her own mind.

The rest of the book explores each of the chakras describing the location, purpose, color, sound, and various problems often associated with energy blockages. Included for each section are recipes that the reader can replicate. The intended purpose of these recipes is to balance out the energy in particular chakras.

All of the recipes provided are either fresh juicing recipes or smoothie recipes made with fresh fruits, vegetables, and nuts. In my mind, these recipes simply provide new and creative ways to provide healthy energy building nutrition into the body rather than opting for caffeinated, carbonated drinks that reduce natural energy. If they also help balance chakra energy that's just an added bonus.

[Simone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! I refer to it often for tonic recipes and recommend it to anyone interested in their health.

[Isidra Mencos · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't know there were specific foods related to specific chakras, so this little book was a revelation for me. The author explains the connection clearly and provides yummy recipes to strengthen the chakras that you feel need that little extra help. The format is as clear and attractive as the content. I have tried a couple of the recipes and I'm excited to keep experimenting!

[Josie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full disclosure--I've totally embodied my full on hippie self since Kati's death. I've had this book for years and never used it. Now I'm pulling out the blender and making chakra smoothies. They are delicious.

[Kat · Rating 5 out of 5]

A practical guide and recipe book for using the wisdom of yoga/ayurveda to channel specific energies in your body. I liked the introductory overviews of the chakras, plus the separate chapters with "tonic" recipes (juices/teas/smoothies) for each chakra.

[Lilla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Our ancestors believed ingredients from the natural world cured not only physical ailments, but spiritual ones as well. Throughout the years, medicine has forgotten this gem of information, but thanks to inspiration from treatments such as the Indian Ayurveda and the world rapidly going back to its organic ways, we are beginning once again to see the fruits, herbs and vegetables as gifts of the divine and are using this knowledge to live better and healthier.

The human body is over 70 percent water and can go months without eating but we cease to exist within days without fluids. Practitioners of Chinese jamu and Indian Ayurveda have long since known the vital importance of liquids. This book brings that knowledge to the masses and is filled with numerous recipes for each of seven energy centers of Indian philosophy.

Chakra Tonics utilizes scientific research and ancient wisdom to create delicious vital elixirs for the modern body and soul. These recipes help to clear out stale energy and revitalize our health.

[Jos-Madelaine Standing · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read to keep in the kitchen!