While researching and exploring the best way to use yoga to open and heal the chakras in our bodies, I have perused many books on the Chakra System.  I found this to be the most comprehensive, easy to understand and intense.  Anodea Judith really takes the whole chakra system and lays it out, simply and in great detail, showing the reader how the chakras may develop healthfully or contracted, what it means to balance your chakras, and how to balance your chakras.  The book is full of meditations, exercises, visualizations and information.  I immersed myself quite happily in this text for weeks--Fabulous!! If you are going to get one book on the chakras, this is the one to get!