Erin: You could do what I've been doing for my last couple of blog articles (and for my next one) and use forums posts to organize and get feedback for your articles.
As far as chakras, learn with the guided meditations... They are a great way to get practice and learn the visualizations, so that later, you can do it more quickly, almost sub-consciously.
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