Chakra Dreamwork: Decode and Heal Your Energy Field through Conscious Dreaming, by Therese E. Duckett
Destiny Books, 979-8888502419, 192 pages, October 2025
“You may not have given much consideration to your dreams–let alone your chakras. However, chakras have been well known and documented for several millennia as being connected to our level of consciousness. What I explore in this book is the powerful relationship between our chakras and our dreams. Chakras provide the energy to dredge up dreams from our subconscious mind, and the corresponding dreams can provide us with guidance and information we may need to build a better, healthier and more meaningful life.”1
Chakra Dreamwork: Decode and Heal Your Energy Field through Conscious Dreaming by Therese E. Duckett exposes the reader to the many ways that our energetic anatomy incorporates into our waking moments and the overarching influence that it has in our sleep journeys as well. Symbology, visual key notes, and more are offered to the reader for exploration and practice in refining a style that speaks to the individual in communing with this vast network of energy.
The exercises contained in this book are meant to open the individual to restoring a healthy flow of energy within each of the chakra points and gain insight to possible blockages and their origins. Sound therapy and meditation are discussed as vital tools to be used in connecting more deeply to the universal and cosmic sources of the primal energies of our chakras, facilitated by the role of vibration and resonance to reconnect as cosmic and energetic beings. In the traditional staple of all work of “knowing thyself”, keeping a dream journal is highly recommended.
Additionally there is a “Chakra Balance Checklist” that can be printed out or used within the book. This can be used as a barometer of which chakra may need some additional attention at any given time. Questions relating to each of the specific chakras ( “Do you feel unsafe in the world?” for Root Chakra) and a rating scale (1-10) of what is arising for you around that question guide the way towards bringing awareness to what is happening within your energetic world.
The content is organized into eleven chapters, distributed through three parts. A glossary and robust bibliography follow the conclusion and offer the reader another opportunity to fully dive into energetic anatomy, including and beyond the chakras. And, an index provides the finishing touches for those who want to search for specifics and use it as a source of reference without wading through it all.
“Part One: Humans as Part of the Universal Energy System” gives a thorough and easily digestible overview of chakras and their role in the bigger energetic picture that comprises our energetic anatomy. “Chapter 1: Chakras and Energy” begins with the reaffirming that we are energetic beings and as such are connected to the all and everything that is part of that energetic network: the Universe, itself. Discussion of the electromagnetic fields surrounding planets and that surrounding our energetic system provides a smooth transition into the nature and use of our own fields-the Subtle Bodies.
The following three chapters (two, three, and four) provide information about the triune combination of the chakras of lower expression, the heart chakras, and the upper three. There is some very interesting information provided in “Chapter 5: Chakras Being Activated (Consciousness Evolving)” that explores more recent recognition of the multiple layers of energetic anatomy that comprise our being beyond the seven traditional chakras.
“Much has been written about the seven primary chakras that are located in the body. More recently, more attention is being given to the twenty-one minor chakras and the eighty-six micro chakras that also contribute to the infinite network of energy continuously flowing through us: But there are also chakras that are located outside of our bodies. These are called the sub-personal and transpersonal chakras. It has been estimated that there are five sub-personal and five transpersonal chakras.”2
“Part Two: Dreamwork of Chakra Dreamwork: Decode and Heal Your Energy Field through Conscious Dreaming” dives right into the importance of sleep as a beneficial rejuvenator at both the etheric and manifest levels and more importantly the role that the chakras play in what and how we dream. Recurring dreams, sleep disorder, and dream symbols are points of discussion and examples of how these may out picture in the dream state are given, providing another layer to process and use.
Each of the chakras is also taken individually with ample attention and examples given to how the dreamscape may reveal underlying chakra blockages and energetic disruptions. The feeling in reading through each of these was one of being given information that everyone could relate to in its most basic form and the comfort in knowing that you are not strangely unique.
“Part Three: Healing with Energy Frequencies” gets down to the focus of healing and assessing what is needed for wholeness in all of your states of being. Exercises are given for each of the chakras that may be identified as contributing negatively to your energetic state and all are simple and straightforward in how to go about a specific practice.
Sound therapy, making use of tone and vibration, as well as contemplative meditation practice and visualization techniques are offered in “Chapter 10: Therapies to Facilitate Chakra Healing”. This was perhaps one of my favorite chapters as I personally used sound and vibration daily and in my spiritual practice of evolution, so I am aware first hand of the impact and power that these tools hold. Additionally, the breathing techniques prescribed for each chakra are balancers and physical health strengtheners as many of us breathe very shallowly and without intention.
Would I Recommend?
Chakra Dreamwork: Decode and Heal Your Energy Field through Conscious Dreaming by Therese E. Duckett is a simple, no frills title that collectively adds insight into both the subtle anatomy of our systems and the potential of conscious dream work to balance and restore a healthy etheric and manifest form.
Beautiful and soft watercolor graphics are appropriately placed throughout the book, allowing for the visual stimuli to arise as part of the experience, particularly in engaging the colors of the chakras. The information contained makes easy work of shifting attention to the subtle nature of our day-to-day existence and encourages a continuing and steady process towards recognizing the limitless energy we have at our disposal because of our chakras.
All in all, this book fills the bill for bridging our often ignored dreams and the messages being sent via our energetic bodies. It is both a simple and quick read and a wonderful reference to slowly move through, allowing for integration of the ideas, information, and new perspective on our dream states.
About the Author: Therese E. Duckett
Therese E. Duckett worked for more than twenty years as a psychologist. Her interest in the human mind has lead to her study of quantum theory and how the brain, body, and consciousness are connected. She currently lives in Victoria, Australia.3
Robin Fennelly is an Elder within the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel Tradition [www.sacredwheel.org]. She is a dancer, teacher, astrologer, author, ritualist and seeker of all things of a spiritual nature. Her writings and classes incorporate a deep understanding of Eastern practice and Western Hermetics and bring a unique perspective towards integration and synthesis of the Divine and Mundane natures of our being. She is a mother of five and lives in Eastern PA with her husband of 45+ years.