Hi LtJ - whether you understood what "breathing through the chakras" meant or not, clearly you're having immensely illuminating experiences in them.

Breathing through, means to put your attention in their approximate location, then get the sense of inhaling in (usually from the back of the chakra) and then exhaling softly through. You can also hold your breath in them, providing you don't tighten.

Everyone will experience the sensations differently - not all will see colours, but it sounds very magical that you are.

In terms of the scheme of what you're seeing, yes, since you're seeing colours, where there's no colour, it's highly possible these are dead zones, to be worked with and opened up.

In the solar plexus, this would likely indicate there's a nauseous kind of energy from mental programming - to be unravelled and cleansed away.

And the deep black in the root is likely that you're connecting into the singularity of the Torus - a really positive experience.

So keep exploring!

I would say it would serve you to come on an Openhand retreat, where we work with these kinds of experiences all the time 😉

Best wishes

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