What are the chakras in African tradition?
The energy centers commonly called chakras did not originate in India — the Kemetic tradition mapped the body’s spiritual energy system thousands of years earlier. Family, Kemetic priests understood the body as a vessel of divine energy with specific spiritual centers aligned along the spine and crown. They called the life force Sekhem — the primal power flowing through all living things. The Shat (or sba) centers corresponded to the same locations your body holds what India later called chakras: the root seat of physical vitality, the creative center, the solar power of will, the heart of compassion, the throat of Heka (spoken power), the third eye of divine sight, and the crown where the individual self merges with the Neter. India received much of its foundational philosophy from Kemet through trade and scholarship. The energy body is African science first.