As you process your way through three to four active weeks of root chakra work, replenishment and assistance will help you heal to your fullest potential. This site is your healing center to return to as often as needed to gain supplemental meditations and healing concepts to support your journey.

Chakra work can be challenging. You may experience seemingly inexplicable emotional shifts, depressed moods, and even profoundly positive states of being working their way through you, throughout the week. You also may feel not much of anything. These states are normal and all a result of moving negative energy out and positive energy in while resolving complex traumas created during the domestication experienced in this and previous human incarnations. Please commit, and recommit, to the work no matter how painful it may become at times. Remember to rely on your coach to provide emotional support through video messages and chats whenever possible, when needed.

The benefits of resolving these negative, stuck rules, beliefs, and energies can be profound. Undoing these programs running within you now means creating the opportunity for a better future aligned with your soul’s greatest purposes manifest. So strap in, hold on, and enjoy the ride!

The Power of Chakras to Heal

Knowledge of chakras for healing and enlightenment is ancient wisdom—wisdom that has been known in many cultures for centuries. The more recent interest in chakras is perhaps because we are collectively starting to recognize that focusing solely on our physical health is not bringing us complete wellness. Despite the many breakthroughs of modern medicine, something still feels missing or “off,” even though we can’t quite put our finger on it.

Western, modern medicine has made large and important contributions to our individual and collective health. However, with its primary focus on the physical body, it has been slower to recognize the other systems affecting the health of the soul as it inhabits its body on Earth. Western medicine generally seeks to eliminate physical symptoms of ‘out-of-balanceness’ through the treatment or removal of the physical symptom. While this approach can be effective and warranted in acute scenarios (such as fixing broken bones caused in a car accident), the imbalance a physical symptom may be expressing often has its roots in something that originated in the energy body.

But how can we navigate our healing through the nuanced and subtle expressions of the vast energy world as it affects us personally? Enter the chakras.

When our chakras are in balance, our lives are in complete harmony and our health tends to be good. If a chakra becomes blocked, we will eventually experience emotional distress or physical disease. Because everything is energy, when we heal and maintain our energy body’s health—through modalities like acupuncture, Reiki, meditation, yoga, and qi gong, among others—and make better lifestyle and diet choices, we actually heal issues that may come up before they manifest in the physical body. 

A MYTH ABOUT CHAKRA HEALING (or any energy work, really)

Before we get into the specifics of the chakra system, we should dispel a myth about chakra healing work.

Myth: Chakra healing is an outside job. The truth is that whether or not you receive outside healing assistance from a practitioner in your chakra healing journey, in the end, you are the one who is the healer of you, not someone else. Even though someone may sometimes use the term “healer” in connection with what they do, healing is always an inside job. While healing practitioners can guide you on your journey, we are each responsible for our own healing.

CHAKRA HEALING WARNINGS

When engaging with healing your chakras, there are a few things you should remember as you begin. Be patient with yourself. You may find yourself as an uncomfortable beginner, just starting to get in touch with your chakras and you may lose patience with yourself very quickly. You may begin to judge yourself as failing if you don’t see immediate progress. Please remember that everyone is different, everyone has their own perfect timeline of their personal unfolding, and everything is happening exactly as it should, including your healing.

Chakra healing, whether it is being cultivated to address a specific issue or to attain enlightenment, is an inner exploration, not a goal. Because of this, just as with physical healing, chakra healing is not something you can simply “speed up.” However, receiving healing treatments and other techniques can clear out energetic debris and bring your energy centers more into harmony. Transformation takes patience. Be compassionate with yourself as you bloom. Do not push yourself past what is compassionate and self-loving, or force your energy.

When people are eager to connect with their chakras and begin healing, they often push themselves past what is comfortable for their energy system. However, you may soon find yourself with a headache (literally!). As soon as you start feeling some resistance, take a break. Get help from your coach or an energy healing practitioner when it’s necessary. You can accomplish a lot on your own, but sometimes guidance can be helpful, especially if you feel like you’re hitting a wall in your healing journey, or the pain manifested is affecting your quality of life.

Chakra Basics

The foundation of the chakra system consists of seven major chakras within the body. They each serve a purpose and are all interconnected. The upper three are considered the spiritual chakras. The spiritual chakras focus on our connection to the Divine, as well as our Higher Self—that version of ourself that is tapped into our purest expression of love, wisdom, and power. The lower three chakras are considered the physical chakras. They ground us in our embodiment as human beings on Earth. The middle or fourth chakra is the heart, and where both the spiritual and physical chakras connect in the center of embodied spirit.

WORKING WITH THE CHAKRAS

In this program’s Chakra Healing Centers, we offer a compilation of the most common methods used by practitioners to harness chakra power, how these methods work, and also share recommendations for when to receive a professional acupuncture or Reiki treatment to help heal the chakras. Specific Chakra Healing Center pages also offer advice on how to maintain a balanced chakra system and create a sacred healing space at home or in your office.

Harnessing Your Chakra Power

There are a number of different methods we can use at home to help heal our chakras, including visualizations and meditations, changing old habits, practicing yoga, using crystals and essential oils, and getting the most out of our food. Because different people feel drawn to different healing techniques, a range of methods are offered here. We recommend you choose healing techniques that you feel most drawn to, since one technique is not necessarily better than another for you. That being said, if you’re experiencing physical problems, it may help to begin with dietary changes (energy vitality plan), yoga, massage, acupuncture, and other bodywork first. If your struggles relate to the mind or heart (emotions), meditation, crystal work, or essential oils might be a good starting point.

But before we go there, let’s get acquainted with the Root Chakra.

When the root chakra is out of harmony through being blocked (deficient) or too open (excessive), there is an inability to trust nature or being here as an incarnated being. We also feel ungrounded, feel disconnected from Mother Earth, have issues around tribal beliefs (our identity in relationship to tribal consciousness) or family wounds, do not feel secure in the knowledge that our most basic and primal needs are being met (such as food, shelter, clothing, and fundamental love), function out of fear, and feel unsafe.

Element

Earth

Color

Red

Purpose

Foundation

Issues

The body, roots, grounding, nourishment, trust, health, home, family, prosperity, appropriate boundaries, survival

Orientation

Self-preservation

Basic rights

To be here and to have

Affirmation

“I Am”

Demon

Fear

Glands

Adrenals

Physical body Parts

The entire physical body, base of spine, legs, bones, feet, rectum, immune system, large intestine, teeth

Life Lesson

To feel safe and secure in the “physical plane,” to manifest our basic needs, and to cultivate healthy boundaries

Physical Dysfunction

Chronic lower back pain, sciatica, varicose veins, rectal tumors/cancer, hemorrhoids, constipation, degenerative arthritis, knee problems, depression, immune-related disorders, weight problems

Traumas and Abuses (womb to 7 years)

Birth trauma, abandonment, physical neglect, poor physical bonding with mother, malnourishment, feeding difficulties, major illness or surgery, physical abuse or violent environment, enema abuse, inherited traumas—parents’ survival fears (i.e. holocaust survivors, war veterans, poverty conditions)

Deficiency

Disconnection from body, notably underweight, fearful, anxious, restless, can’t settle, poor focus and discipline, financial difficulty, poor boundaries, chronic disorganization

Excess

Obesity, overeating, hoarding, material fixation, greed, sluggish, lazy, tired, fear of change, addiction to security, rigid boundaries

Possible Causes of current Energy Blocks

Fear of being alive, guilt

Balanced characteristics

Good health, vitality, well grounded, comfortable in the body, sense of trust in the world, feeling of safety and security, ability to relax and be still, stability, prosperity, right livelihood

Crystals for Healing

Ruby, garnet, black tourmaline, bloodstone, hematite, obsidian, onyx, red jasper, lodestone, smoky quartz, fire agate

Essential Oils

Myrrh, vetiver, sandalwood, patchouli, spikenard

Affirmations

• It is safe for me to be here

• I have the right to be here

• The earth supports me and meets my needs

• I love my body and trust its wisdom

• I am immersed in abundance

• I am here and I’m real

Root Mantras

(pick a mantra from this list or the Sanskrit list to use during your chakra meditations)

• I trust

• I am supported

• I am safe to be myself

• I ground down to rise up

Sanskrit Root Mantras

These are fun to chant in or out of meditation to bring yourself back into your body

• OM BHUR [aum bur] (Om and salutations to the earth plane/first chakra)

• OM NAMAH SHIVAYA [aum num-ha shi-whyah] (Calling in all the elements under conscious control for grounding: Earth, water, fire, air, ether)

Gyan Mudra for Meditation

As an optional flair to use during your root chakra meditations, gently touch the tip of your index finger and thumb while your palm remains open:

As your coach works with you through the chakra work process, you will want to provide yourself with opportunities to dig deeper into the energy that’s often only available to you when you are completely alone. It is in the space of solitude, silence, and stillness that the veil between our True Essence and our personality is thin and we can access the subtle realms or our energy body. Taking time to be with yourself and these meditations throughout the week will add to their total cleansing and healing capacity.

Choose from the four options below, depending on your available time and desired supportive work throughout the four weeks we will be working with the root chakra.

Also known as just “Chakra Process Healing Work” for short. This is a guided meditation, healing self-inquiry system that will be a primary part of our coaching calls during this phase of the program. During our calls, I will guide you through different concepts and scenarios that are intended to bring up unconscious beliefs and emotional energies stored in each of your first four chakra energy centers. By doing this, we are healing the past and present in order to ignite your power to become the future force of nature you aspire to be.

This process seeks to resolve known and unknown trauma energies that have become the limiting rules of your character and releasing them will take you through a characterological transformation. This kind of transformation involves resolving your unresolved self-sabotaging tendencies, such as where you: hold yourself back, take action and then shut yourself down, say you’re interested and then never follow up, betray yourself, and a myriad of other ways you sabotage yourself from achieving your big Soul Goals. But it won’t be easy, and it won’t necessarily feel good.

In this work, we are attempting to open up lots of stored grief, anger, negativity, etc. and what we open up during the session will continue to release outside the session. This is why it’s important to support yourself throughout the week with the aforementioned concepts and therapeutic methods in this Chakra Healing Center page. You may feel sick, dizzy, or otherwise disoriented after a session—this is normal when moving energy, though if this sensation persists for more than a day or two, let me know asap and plan an energy healer visit.

What blocks your chakras?

Throughout our lives we experience different degrees of negative traumatic experiences that overwhelm our ability to process them. Our way of coping with these events stores that energy so that it becomes hardwired into our physical/energy body system and lies beyond our conscious awareness. When this happens, illnesses manifest, chakras are blocked, and we tend to compensate by defending/avoiding these tender places within us—which makes us feel and act in ways uncharacteristic of our higher-selves.

These traumatic experiences aren’t just stories, they change the brain and nervous system and standard cognitive behavioral therapies aren’t effective at resolving them. Energy work such as chakra process work and movement practices such as yoga, Qigong, meditation, group singing, dance, chanting are more effective at resolving these traumas by moving energy and giving us back our ownership of our bodies. These therapies promote the recall of disassociated aspects of ourselves and invite them back into safe embodiment. If you would like to learn more about trauma, please review these and any works by Peter A. Levine, founder of the Somatic Experiencing method or Bessel van der Kolk:

• Peter A. Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute

• A 6 minute summary of Trauma and Somatic Experiencing from Peter A. Levine

• On Being interview with Bessel van der Kolk

• Dr. Bessel van der Kolk 80-minute presentation – “The Body Keeps the Score: How Trauma Is Lodged in Embodied Experience”

• Brain Picking’s exploration of The Body Keeps The Score

These stored traumas are your blind spots—a part of your shadow that operates in your most fundamental code and affects your every moment. The negative energy of stored traumas makes you feel, do, and say things that aren’t truly you, yet you’ve become identified with them over time and thus can’t really see them anymore. With every trauma, you’ve left a little of your Whole-Self behind and your energy has become more tired, fearful, and heavy as a consequence. The more you can integrate these disassociated aspects of yourself through giving them feeling and forgiveness, the more of your power you take back, which makes you feel more: focused, grounded, energized, secure, and clear.

the importance of resolving blockages in the first chakra

• In the first chakra, womb through birth through childhood is experienced as your current reality and unquestioned truth; about you, the world, God, other people.

• Your ‘lesson experience’ is 100 percent verified, reinforced, and “agreed to” by your parents at a belief level and through the intensity of their experiences and reactions.

• First chakra becomes the foundational truth/reality that all the other chakras (your levels of consciousness) are built upon (even your seventh chakra!)

Many lessons are stored in the first chakra

Is it safe to be ME on this planet, w/family? • Am I supposed to be here? • Do I WANT to be here? • Am I…the REAL ME… wanted here? • Can I survive and take care of myself? • Is my body deserving of care, love, respect? • Am I valuable as I am? • Am I deserving of love and “having” things?

The Experiential answers to Those Questions Become Truths at a mind/body/nervous system and subconscious level.

• Becomes foundational truth and reality that all of your defenses and protections are built on

• Defensive ways of being become one with your foundational truth and reality

• Lifetime setting on nervous system wiring/fight or flight response gets locked in

Then the other six chakras develop at specific ages and stages, each with their own unique energy, level of consciousness, and special gifts for you and every part of your being, and are perfectly, divinely suited for your exact life purpose. Even though it’s trauma, it’s all perfect. Perfect for the journey you wanted to have in this incarnation.

And, each other chakra is built on the first chakra foundation, so each “question” and the “answer experience” that became truth/reality is filtered upward to either nourish or contaminate each chakra in succession. In other words, root chakra work is fundamental to your quality of consciousness.

Here’s what you need to know for your coaching calls

• You will be receiving calls via Google Duo in a web browser so that you can use your computer device for the call. I do this for a few reasons:

1. So that your hands are free to do tapping (no holding phones)

2. So you can listen to a sound track in the background of the call (see ‘meditation’ section)

3. So I can see you tapping and processing emotions during the call (video on you)

• You can still use your phone to host the calls, you would just need to mount it in a way where I can see you and so you don’t have to hold your phone.

• I will be sending you a preemptive email before the call to inquire about certain information that will be utilized in our guided meditation. We will explore that information in the first 15 minutes of the call and will use that information to inform the guided meditation to follow.

• You will want to wear headphones during every coaching call to get the full effect of the work.

• During our call, you will press 'play’ on the Root Chakra Process Work audio track in the meditation section of this page when prompted, so have it ready.

• I will be guiding through a partially scripted guided meditation that will create an ideal container for you to tap into your deeper internal reality. We will be communicating with each other within the meditation, but only when prompted. Otherwise, you will be focusing on your body-sense emotions and conducting rounds of tapping when prompted, so be sure to have your EFT sequence in muscle memory so you don’t have to think about it.

• You may want to stand and move during the call, so pick a space that would allow for that.

• After the guided work, we will unpack your experience a bit with the remaining time. If you want to participate in additional coaching, just let me know before the next call and we can book an additional 15 -30 minutes per your desire.

Regarding the Meditation Path Practices

By now, if you’ve been keeping up with the Meditation Path practices, you will likely be on Practice 9 - Heart Focus. These meditations are designed to accompany your chakra process work as you navigate the entire 16 weeks of the Heart Phase by being the true healing center for all the chakra work. Though we are focusing healing on each of the first four chakras, we are using the heart chakra through the whole process, through each chakra level.

All healing is done through the heart chakra. It’s the most powerful one as it’s responsible for integrating the lower and upper three. It is a part of every other chakra healing and integration because it offers your process wisdom (seeing the big picture), compassion, understanding, patience, love and other qualities while you work through these important reckonings.

The Meditation Path offers a variety of heart chakra focused practices, love body, and self-compassion practices that will enrich and lighten your integration experience while allowing you to express a greater field of love, so please do keep up with your Meditation Path Practices.

The last section has additional supplementary information you may find useful during the next four weeks of root chakra focus.