Breathwork and Chakras: Unlocking Healing Through Light and Energy
Breathwork is more than just deep breathing—it’s a powerful practice that calms the nervous system, opens energy pathways, and supports healing. By combining intentional breathing with chakra activation, you can stimulate your body’s natural light energy (biophotons) and experience profound balance and vitality.
-Dr. Alicia Armitstead
How Conscious Breathing Activates the Vagus Nerve, Opens Chakras, and Stimulates Biophotons for Deep Healing
Breathwork can benefit the body in so many ways. Intentional deep breathing from the diaphragm activates the vagus nerve, helping the body and mind exit the stress response, as the vagus nerve signals the body to enter rest-and-digest mode. The deeper your breaths, the more oxygen reaches your body, allowing for deeper healing. Historically, this is how I have personally used breathwork and how I have suggested it to thousands of patients over the last two decades.
Only recently have I discovered how to use breathwork and the chakra system together. Chakras are centers of light in your body that people cannot see. These bodies of light are at your core that shine outwards. You can picture them as balls of light, about the size of a grapefruit. You have 7 of them, and each one holds different attributes. These balls of light can be open or closed. The more open they are, the more energy flows through your body, the healthier your body is, and the more peaceful your mind is.
I’m going to teach you how to breathe directly into each Chakra. In this way, you activate and open each Chakra. With these balls of light open, the body can access the light to stimulate its biophotons. The body makes its own light inside each cell, called a biophoton. It’s not just our bodies that produce biophotons; all living cells do. When two free radicals hit each other, they give off a very small unit of light called a biophoton.
Dr Alicia Armitstead is doing breathwork and Chakra exercises.
We make a lot of biophotons throughout the day, and the more we make, the healthier we are. In the office, we stimulate the healing capacity of biophotons through light therapy, achieving amazing results, especially for chronic infections such as Lyme disease and parasites. But now, with this breathwork, you can stimulate your chakras and biophotons on your own, daily.
This type of conscious breathing acts as an integrator. It weaves together the thoughts, feelings, and sensations with the vibration of light on the chakra level. We can use the energy of conscious breathing to stimulate and open our chakras so wide that the light enters every cell, creating more biophotons.
The whole process of this type of intentional breathing should take about five minutes. I want you to do each type of breath 10 times. Know that with each breath you not only bring oxygen into your body, but also bring in the light. If you can do the morning breathwork in a sunny area, you will create even more energy flow.
- 1st and 7th Chakras - Visualize a vertical channel running from the Earth through your spine up to the sky way above your head. Breathe in moving energy from Earth up your spine to your belly. Hold your breath for a second, then as you breathe out, move the energy up your spine, through your head, and up to the sky. With the next breath, move the energy from the sky down through your head, down the spine to the belly, and hold it for a second. Then, as you breathe out, move the energy down the spine to the Earth. With each breath, move the energy up and down 10 times. This opens up the first and 7th chakras.
- 2nd Chakra - You want to make a Kegel, which is squeezing your pelvic floor muscles together as if you were trying to stop your stream of urine from coming out. With those muscles squeezed, you are activating your second Chakra. Breathe in from the Earth into those muscles, hold the breath, then, as you breathe out, move the energy up the spine to the sky. With the next breath, reverse it, breathe through your head, down your spine to those squeezed muscles, hold it, then release down to the Earth.
- 3rd Chakra - While still holding the pelvic floor muscles together, you do the same movement of energy as you would with the 1st and 7th chakras, holding the breath at the belly, just with a different intention of now opening up the Solar plexus or 3rd Chakra.
- 4th Chakra - To stimulate the 4th Chakra, sit up a little taller, puff out your chest, breathe in from the Earth to the chest, hold it for a second, then as you breathe out, release it up to the sky. On the second breath, breathe down from the sky to the chest, hold it for a second, then release it down from the chest to the Earth.
- 5th Chakra - Tuck your chin in, feeling the neck muscles activate. Breathe in from the Earth, up the spine to your neck. Hold it for a second, then move the energy up the head to the sky.
- 6th Chakra - The Third Eye Chakra breathwork is not opened through the vertical channel but through a horizontal channel. You just spent all this time in the vertical channel. Now it’s time to open the horizontal channel. Breathe in, moving energy from in front of your forehead to the center of your head; hold it for a second, then breathe out from the middle of your head to the back of your head. The next breath, breathe in from the back of the head to the center of the head, hold it a second, then breathe out from the center of the head to the front of the head. Do this 10 times.
Area of Concern
After you have breathed into the chakras and light is flowing, you can then use the breath to breathe into any area of concern. You would breathe from the Earth, up the vertical channel, through your spine to the area you want to help, hold it there for a second, then exhale up to the sky. Second breath, from the sky to the area, hold for a second, then release it down to the Earth. This is great for any pain or stiff joints, headaches, or organs you want to give a boost of energy to. I have used it on tired eyes and skin rashes before with great results.
The deeper your energy goes into the Earth, the stronger your root chakra. You need a strong root chakra to hold more light in your body. The more light you hold the more open your chakras are and the more open your chakras are the more light the biophotons can hold.
Doing this breathwork, I have never felt more relaxed and at peace in my life. I recommend doing it in the morning and at night. Some people do find it too stimulating to do at bedtime. So if you do, then I suggest doing it two hours before bed.
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