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The Living Chakra Experience

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A Living Ceremony · Southern California & Beyond

The Living
Chakra Experience

Explore the depths of community and connection — with yourself, with others, and with the cosmos. Unlock new dimensions of your humanity in one extraordinary evening. Curious  ·  Playful  ·  Surprisingly Deep
Find an Event Near You Sliding scale $44–$66 · Intimate gathering · No experience needed
The Living Chakra Experience
The Experience

Most people expect a lecture.
What they get is something far more alive.

The Living Chakra Experience is part workshop, part ceremony, part group coaching experience — rooted in the ancient wisdom of the Chakra System and inspired by powerful traditions like Family Constellations and somatic group work.
01

Living Chakra Intelligence

You'll explore the 7 chakras not as abstract concepts, but as living intelligences you can actually feel and embody in real time.

02

The Group as Living Map

Participants step into chakra roles that speak directly to your life situation with uncanny wisdom — the group becomes a mirror of your inner world.

03

The Hot Seat

A sacred coaching space where the entire room becomes your counsel. Your only job is to receive. People leave with clarity they've been searching years for.

04

The Representative Experience

Simply being a representative is its own profound experience. People regularly feel wisdom and sensations moving through them they can't explain.

Woven throughout: breathwork, authentic relating, movement, meditation, and genuine heart-to-heart connection.
The Seven Gateways

The Chakra System as
living wisdom

Each chakra shows up as a living voice in the room — not a concept to learn, but an intelligence to feel. Every gathering, every voice says something different.
🔴RootSafety & Belonging
🟠SacralPleasure & Creativity
🟡SolarPower & Will
💚HeartLove & Connection
🔵ThroatTruth & Expression
🟣Third EyeIntuition & Clarity
CrownCosmic Connection
The Foundation

What is the Chakra System?

Most people arrive expecting a lecture about philosophy. What they get is something far more alive. The Chakra System is one of the oldest maps of human consciousness in existence — seven energy centers running through the body, each governing a different dimension of your life: survival, creativity, power, love, expression, intuition, and connection to something larger than yourself. In most teachings, the chakras are concepts to understand. In this experience, they become voices you can actually hear. Shiva J has spent years developing a group process in which each chakra is embodied by a real person in the room — creating a living, breathing map of your inner world. The wisdom that comes through isn't theoretical. It moves through the bodies of the people around you, speaking directly to whatever you are carrying that evening. This event does not involve sexual activity of any kind. It is focused entirely on energetic awareness, somatic experience, and genuine human connection.
A Living Practice

It is never
the same twice

The wisdom that comes through depends entirely on who is in the room that night.
🔄

Come Back

If you've been before — come back. You will not have the same experience. Many regulars say each gathering feels like the first time.

💺

Try Both Roles

If you've sat in the hot seat, try being a representative — or vice versa. Alternating is one of the fastest paths to deep self-knowledge.

🌱

A Community

This isn't a workshop you attend once and check off a list. It's a practice. A growing community. An ongoing journey — and you're always welcome back.

The Evening

Your journey,
unfolded

6:30 PM — Doors Open

Arrive & Connect

Settle in, share food and drink, begin meeting the community. No pressure, no performance.

7:00 PM — Ceremony Begins

No Late Entry

The container opens at 7:00 PM sharp. Late arrivals cannot be admitted — this is essential to holding the space.

7:00 – 10:00 PM

The Living Chakra Process

Breathwork, authentic relating, the chakra process, the hot seat, movement, meditation, and heart-to-heart connection.

Closing

Integration & Community

We land together. Share, witness, and integrate what moved through you. The container closes gently, with care.

Who This Is For

You belong here
if...

  • You're curious about the chakra system and want to experience it directly — not as a concept, but as a living intelligence you can actually feel
  • You're navigating a life challenge — a relationship, a crossroads, a question you can't quite answer — and open to wisdom in an unexpected way
  • You want to feel more connected to yourself, your body, and other people — and the usual routes haven't quite gotten you there
  • You're a yoga teacher, coach, therapist, or healing practitioner curious about embodied group process
  • You're simply a curious, open-hearted human who knows there's more to life than what's on the surface
No partner needed. No experience needed. No prerequisites — just an open heart and a willingness to show up.
From the Community

What past attendees
are saying

I walked in skeptical. Within an hour I was in tears — not from sadness, but from this overwhelming feeling of being truly seen. The chakra process is unlike anything I've experienced. I left with answers I'd been searching for for years.

Simone A. — North Park, San Diego

I've done therapy, coaching, retreats, plant medicine — and this little evening event moved something in me that none of those things had touched. Profound. And also somehow fun? I laughed and cried in the same hour.

Marcus T. — Hillcrest, San Diego

I was a representative — didn't even sit in the hot seat — and I STILL had a massive breakthrough. It was like the process was working on me too, through the back door. Shiva J warned us this might happen. He was right.

Keiko R. — Mission Hills, San Diego

I brought my best friend and we both sat in the hot seat at different points. We drove home and talked for three hours. This event doesn't just open you — it gives you language for things you've felt but couldn't name.

Vanessa & Lia — Ocean Beach, San Diego

As a yoga teacher who works with the chakra system regularly, I thought I knew this material. I did not know this material. Experiencing the chakras as living voices in a group field humbled me completely.

Nathaniel P., RYT-500 — Encinitas, CA

Shiva J holds a room with warmth, humor, and absolute presence. I never felt unsafe and yet went deeper than I expected. I felt electricity during the breathwork. Pure love during the closing circle. Already signed up for the next one.

Dara M. — Point Loma, San Diego

Come. Experience. If you don't leave transformed — you don't pay.

I have facilitated this work long enough to know what it does to people. I am so confident this evening will shift something real in you that I'm backing it with a personal guarantee.

Attend the full evening and don't feel that something genuinely moved, opened, or changed — find me at the end of the night. Full refund. No questions. No awkwardness. Just gratitude for showing up.

— Shiva J, Facilitator
Energy Exchange

Sliding scale —
choose what honors you

All tickets include the full ceremony, the chakra process, and food & drink to share. Choose the price that honors your financial reality — no questions asked.
Early Bird$44Limited quantity
Regular$55Standard entry
Last Call$66Final presale
Tickets must be reserved in advance — not sold at the door. Capacity intentionally limited. Exact location provided with ticket purchase.

What to Bring

  • A dish or drink to share — this community breaks bread together
  • Your own water in a closed-lid container
  • A journal or notepad and pen — you'll want to capture what comes through
  • Comfortable clothing you can move and breathe in
  • Please arrive clean and sober — no alcohol or recreational substances
Your Guide

About Shiva J

Shiva J

Advanced Certified Tantra Educator · Kundalini Yoga Instructor · Somatic Facilitator · Dating & Relationship Coach · Licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist · Master NLP Practitioner

Since 2003, Shiva J has been devoted to transformational work — helping individuals and couples elevate their lives through healing, connection, and growth. The Chakra Council process at the heart of The Living Chakra Experience is one of his original methodologies — rooted in the Chakra System and inspired by Family Constellations and somatic group work.

He builds spaces that are simultaneously playful, sacred, and deeply safe. Where you can show up exactly as you are — and leave more fully yourself.

Something in you
already knows this is for you.

Events across Southern California and beyond — new cities added all the time.

Find an Event Near You Sliding scale $44–$66 · Intimate gathering · No experience needed