Most of us first encountered the cakras (chakras) through the familiar modern seven-cakra model. Classical Tantra, however, preserves many cakra systems, each designed for a particular kind of practice. In this workshop, we will explore a five-cakra system in which the five tattvas—earth, water, fire, air, and space—are contemplated within the body.

Each cakra provides a locus for working with one elemental tattva through its mantra, yantra, sensory field, and particular capacity. Earth reveals the intelligence of structure, stability, and support. Water reveals flow, cohesion, and adaptability. Fire reveals illumination and transformation. Air reveals movement and dynamism. Space reveals the capacity to contain and make room for all that appears.

This five-cakra system provides a spiritual-practice technology for tattva-śuddhi: a way of discovering how the same elemental capacities you encounter within your own body and senses are also operating throughout the world. As we work systematically with the tattvas and their associated yantras and mantras, the body and senses become part of the practice itself—opening a way to experience the world with greater intimacy and to recognize the deeper nondual reality these practices are designed to reveal. 

Inside this workshop you'll...

• Understand how this classical five-cakra system differs from the familiar modern seven-chakra model, and why different Tantric cakra maps were developed for different purposes.
• Explore the five elemental tattvas—earth, water, fire, air, and space—and the distinct capacities through which they shape embodied and sensory experience.
• Learn how mantra, yantra, the senses, and the cakras work together as an integrated spiritual-practice technology for tattva-śuddhi.
• Begin to recognize the elemental intelligences at work in your body, perception, relationships, and the wider manifest world.
• Discover how this system provides a structured, embodied path of inquiry oriented toward greater freedom—and what becomes possible through sustained, guided practice.

Plus: A FREE Gift With Your Ticket

Receive a beautifully designed Five-Cakra Workshop Companion Guide to help you follow the teaching and return to the key ideas and correspondences afterward.

• Workshop companion guide with the five cakras, elements, sensory fields, and key concepts explored in the workshop 

• Complete workshop slide deck for easy reference

• Workshop replay so you can watch again at your own pace

   

Cakra Vidyā:

The Five-Cakra System of Trika Tantra

This will be a LIVE virtual workshop on Zoom.

Can't make it live? No problem - every registrant gets access to the replay.

Why I'm Teaching This..

Hi, I’m Lisa Witter, a psycho-spiritual counselor, nondual Tantric meditation teacher, and longtime student of Kashmir Śaivism. I’m teaching this workshop because, after many years of studying and practicing a range of cakra teachings, I found myself wanting something more grounded, specific, and practice-based than the broad, academic overviews so often available.

My own work has involved sustained study with teachers, careful personal practice, and years of bringing these teachings into live classes with students. I am particularly interested in making sophisticated Tantric material accessible without reducing its depth or losing its practical force. I take the practices I receive seriously, test them through my own practice and teaching, and refine how I present them so that students can engage them clearly and meaningfully.

This workshop grows out of that commitment. It is an entry point into a foundational area of Kashmir Śaiva cosmology and practice, and part of my larger body of teaching on the 36 tattvas, embodiment, and liberation.