Then a coworker who does yoga said something simple: don’t just stare at the points, watch the movement. That sent me toward the idea of nadis — the subtle channels in yogic anatomy, not just the chakras themselves. I don’t claim nadis are proven in the way a vein or nerve is. I’m a park ranger, not a subtle-body physiologist. But as a practice framework, they’ve been more useful for me.

Think of a creek in the Sonoran Desert. It’s not a row of ponds. It’s a moving system: water, heat, silt, wind, shade, the angle of the rock. If you only label the pools, you miss the current. My body felt that way. Chakras gave me locations.