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Secondary centre
Lalana chakra
Lalanā · ललना
Twelve petals at the soft palate, behind and above the roof of the mouth. Also called talu chakra. It exists in the literature mainly because a specific practice, khechari mudra, exists to reach it.
palate
nectar
taste
twelve petals
- Location
- The soft palate, above the root of the tongue
- Petals
- Twelve
- Also called
- Talu chakra
- Receives from
- Bindu visarga
- Guarded by
- Throat chakra
- Reached by
- Khechari mudra
The catch point
In the nectar model of the hatha texts, amrita falls from bindu at the back of the head and is burned at the navel. Lalana is the first place it can be intercepted. That is the whole reason the centre is named.
Twelve petals, like anahata, and a strong association with taste, which fits its position in the mouth.
Khechari mudra
The practice that addresses lalana is the most physically specific in hatha yoga: the tongue is turned back and up until it reaches past the soft palate. Traditional accounts involve months or years of gradual lengthening, sometimes with cutting of the frenulum, which is not a practice this site recommends or describes further.
The accessible version, taught widely today, simply rests the tongue against the soft palate during meditation. Most of the reported effect on attention comes from that much.
Why it dropped out of most lists
Lalana belongs to a practice-specific vocabulary. Without khechari there is little to say about it, and the seven-centre model that reached the West came through Theosophical writers with no interest in tongue technique. It survives in hatha lineages and in Sanskrit commentary, which is where most of its literature sits.
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