Sacral Chakra (Svadhishthana)

Sacral Chakra (Svadhishthana) symbol

The symbol of the sacral chakra is composed of six lotus petals around two concentric circles which create a crescent moon shape.

Six lotus petals represent 6 vrittis (modes of consciousness): anger, envy, hatred, cruelty, pride, and desire. These vrittis are the cause we are tied up with the cycle of birth & death. In sacral chakra, one can break this cycle and raise the consciousness level through conscious efforts.

The circle in the centre is the representation of the water element present in our body. Apart from water, the upturned crescent moon is also an important symbol of Svadhishthana. It represents the female energy and establishes a link with the subconscious.

Location: Below the naval

Responsibility: Regulating emotions, sexuality, creativity.

Colour: Orange

Element: Water

Svadhishthana is the Sanskrit name of Sacral chakra. Sva means “Self” and adhishthana means “rule” or “dwelling place”. On combining root terms Svadhishthana literally means “place of self” or “place where self rules”.

This shows the purpose of the sacral chakra is one knowing their own identity and the exploring of individuality by means of personal emotions and creativity coupled with desires in relation to pleasure.

The sacral chakra supports emotional and physical aspects over seeing many of the bodies fluids and sex organs. Energy which flows through the sacral chakra stimulates confidence and sensual dynamism.

The sacral chakra is associated with emotional connections and relationships. It builds an emotional foundation which gives flexibility but also firm boundaries to help create healthy loving relationships and connections.

A balanced sacral chakra will maintain balance in relationships avoiding unnecessary isolation and traits such as co-dependency and overwhelm of negative feelings such as guilt and blame and jealousy.

The sacral chakra is orange in colour like the setting sun and you can personally open and activate this chakra as you surround yourself with the colour orange.

The feelings and effect of this glorious orange colour in and through the body capture the wants and desires of sexuality, imaginative and creative desires among so much more of our relational needs. Orange is a warm and exciting colour suited perfectly for this lively aspect of our being.

When you meditate, picture this bright orange sunset glowing colour under your navel, breath it inside and allowing it to release around your body.

The sacral chakra is vital in keeping us connected and vibrating among the universe which provides so much for us on our life journey. In the search for our life’s purpose so much of the pleasure aspect of the path comes through the sacral chakra and so much activity of the other chakras is connected to how this area is maintained and loved and balanced.

With this in mind it is the case that should the Svadhishthana become closed and out of kilter and balance, then so would the other chakras. Perhaps this should be the place we never lose sight of when balancing and cleansing and healing our chakras? The gateway to a total cleanse of pleasure.

A balanced Sacral Chakra…

The sacral chakra, the water element, isn’t only about personal relationships and sensual or sexual pleasure in a physical sense. It is also vital for developing a strong emotional foundation to grow as an individual, freely expressing one self in the outside world and being a protector against the relentless and alluring powers of the actual world.

The Second Chakra, the sacral, can face all manor of challenges showing the strength to dust down and go again when the going gets tough. The Svadhishthana fundamental relational energy hub gives purpose to the person to find what they appreciate, how their values suit their lifestyle and make adoring and energizing connections.

The Svadhishthana is the establishment of a sound conscience that permits us to associate with the world without undercutting ourselves or claiming to be somebody else. Making strong decisions of a financial nature place strength through the complete chakra system keeping the body and mind in full open flow.

An unbalanced Sacral Chakra…

You will know and feel immediately when your sacra’ chakra is unbalanced and it’s energy is weakened and flagging. Feeling the opposite to how a balanced sacral chakra feels, the feelings of being excessively delicate, anxious, nervous, and vulnerable. Unable to move forward and adapt to the things life brigs to you daily.

When this chakra at the root is closed and blocked, people automatically feel the lack of control in their life and actions which further weakens their energy and belief systems. Being unable to express ourselves freely impedes creative abilities and restricts the noticing of new opportunities for happiness. This in turn can cause co-dependency which diminishes self-assertion and causes separation from oneself and ones conscious awareness.

Issues soon become ‘big’ issues such as financial or pleasurable functions which appear to be more dramatic blockages, over-active feelings escalating into over the top emotional episodes and profound mood swings which destroy balance and create a guilt and disappointment in the failure do succeed in even the most basic of daily tasks let alone create and forge a new exciting dynamic path ahead.

Imagine this bright orange sunset light of the sacral chakra below the naval of your chakra system, the lower abdomen. When all these negative feelings and behaviours begin to overwhelm and the breakdown feels inevitable picture this sunset colour glowing and flowing its light shining the area with a healing orange powder as a warning of suffering alignment. Heed the warning of this powder cloud and breath the orange light through and within and around your body so that your sacral chakra begins healing and cleansing and opening again, with this calming yet powerful colour.

Chakra Significance

It doesn’t have to be complicated or overly philosophical to consider the benefits of paying attention to the 7 chakras.

Without a doubt they are areas of the physical human body we are all familiar with. You don’t have to be religious or sceptical to know that looking after your health is key to your personal happiness and prosperity.

So it makes sense that we should ensure we maintain and care for ourselves from top to bottom and the 7 chakras are a wonderful illustration and map for guidance on how we can try to do this daily, both physically and non-physically. Emotionally and intellectually. Spiritually and consciously. You don’t have to believe in anything in particular and it doesnt matter what you believe, if anything.

There may be 7 chakra different points yet they are not wholly independent of each other and do not work in isolation. In fact they are in total coordination with each other, connected and reliant on each others wellness. Having said that it is useful to understand their functions alone to see this connection and also useful to work individually on each chakra to open and cleanse and heal which aids the over all healing of the chakra chain

Every day sacral chakra

The sacral chakra is the second chakra, relational energy hub, in your body’s chakra system. It’s associated with your emotional body, creativity, and sensuality with its energy characterized by flexibility and flow, as the water element. Its function is guided by the principle of pleasure.

It’s the chakra that’s closely associated with emotional responses and often described as the seat of emotions. It’s also connected with the sense of taste and with the reproductive functions.

Since it’s a close neighbour of the root chakra, it’s just one step removed from your preoccupations about safety, survival, and the instinctual sensory perception of your environment.

The sacral chakra lets you creatively deal with what comes out of your experiences and develop a response that’s influenced by your intelligence and emotional patterns.

Because of the sacral chakras close physical connection with the pelvis and the reproductive organs, this chakra is also the centre of your discovery for pleasure, whether through sensual pleasure or your daily life experiences.

It’s important at this point to halt the wrong vibrations which will only spiral into a path of pleasure reduction, physical pain, poor decision making and blocks of creativity and belief. When your energy stagnates and you are overwhelmed with anxiety and insecurity and panic then your tendency to be harsh on yourself with mean words and angry actions is at greater risk. This is the moment to pay attention to the sacral chakra warning and change the way you speak to your self.

Listen to the calming affirmations audio attached to this article to see an example of a simple and quick way to instantly begin to heal and repair your root chakra.

Healing, balancing and opening the Sacral Chakra

You are naturally aware that the sacral chakra is open and balanced, as the bright orange light shines over your emotional and pleasurable feelings, your freedom of expression and connected stature. It doesn’t always need to be a last minute emergency break down that calls for sacral chakra maintenance, it is easy and simple to implement balance and openness with just a few simple daily techniques to head off chakra blockages.

A Healing Visualization for Svadhishthana Chakra

Meditation is a beautiful connecting practice when focused on the bright orange sacral chakra, a force of nature creating intense pleasure and flexibility through your emotional soul.

Meditation isn’t a mystical practise. It is a daydreaming state we are all capable of entering at the click of our fingers, yet so powerful as a tool to clear and redirect the balance and energy of the body and mind. There is no right or wrong way of doing it, there is not fear attached to the process. Just be you and just daydream.

Just try this basic daydream visualization and the attached audio of relaxation. Be specific in dwelling on the sacral orange chakra area.

Picture in your relaxed quiet mind, a bright glowing orange puff powder cloud of sunset light, a shimmer and glimmer of orange power flowing from your sacral chakra, within and around your lower abdomen area and up and around your body carrying the message of love and connection and pleasure and freedom to every corner and doorway in your soul.

And when your mind wanders, because it does, and its OK, then simply return to this meditation technique as many times as you feel the need. Be that orange powder puff cloud flow. Feel that bright orange sunset connection between flow through your inner being and physical body and soul.

Then, after several minutes, imagine releasing the orange cloud, allowing the pleasurable creative freedom to flow and see the bright orange light dissolving into the world outside you

Imagine any energy that no longer serves or benefits you seeping out of your body and into the air around you, where it can serve a breath and a vibration for a new growth elsewhere.

Sacral chakra diet

As well as daily habits attending to the maintenance and clearing of our mind, our structured sleep patterns, the sweet essence of daydreaming, the simplicity of a personalised physical and breathing exercise program and time and travel in natures glorious sights and fresh air; it is vital we have a diet that compliments the care of each chakra.

Fresh healing foods such as sweet fruits like oranges, melons and coconuts sacral chakra. Cinnamon is also good for chakra healing as is drinking lots and lots of pure water.

Enjoy and savour these foods, each bite and taste a precious invasion of the root chakra energy. Feel the comfort and the pleasure as the orange glow enters your physical body and your mind knows all about it.

Second Chakra Meditation

Meditating that invokes the water element can be very healing and therapeutic, bringing emotional balance to the body for chakra balancing and cleansing.

Keep it simple with such a meditation exercise as visualizing an orange lotus or an orange crescent moon in the sacral area. Hold this image in your mind for several minutes while breathing in and breathing out deeply. See the image, see the colour focus on your naval and focus on your breathing. Slowly and peacefully.

When we are connected to water, we are connected to our sacral chakra, pay close attention to the feeling of water when bathing or washing or paddling or swimming or just being, by the stream.

Breathe deeply and take in the joy of this feeling, the gratitude that this is evidence of the secure path forward for you today. Even just a few minutes of water meditation in nature calms the nervous system and connect you back to yourself. This is an amazing distraction when you feel discomfort emotionally for all chakras too, just sit back and breathe and smile and feel that connection.

100 Sacral Chakra Affirmations for Creativity and Sensuality

1. I nurture myself emotionally and take full responsibility for my own happiness.
2. My relationships are based on mutual respect and appreciation.
3. I trust my loved ones, and they can trust me.
4. Inspiration is always flowing to me, and I act on the great ideas I receive.
5. It’s safe to get close to other people.
6. I use social media as a tool to be uplifted and share positivity with others.
7. I invite joy into my life.
8. My parents are spiritual teachers who offer my soul a chance for growth.
9. I allow others to be who they are.
10. I’m healing old wounds from past relationships. I release trauma and keep the blessings.
11. When I wake up I feel energized and eager to begin my day.
12. Change is perfectly safe.
13. I share the love with others and embrace intimacy.
14. I give myself permission to release drama.
15. I attract people who treat me with respect.
16. I enjoy pleasure in all areas of my life.
17. My emotions are free-flowing and balanced.
18. I am a creative being.
19. It is my birthright to receive pleasure.
20. I honour the sacred body in which my soul resides.
21. I welcome sensuality into my life.
22. My intuitive senses are awakened.
23. I embrace my vibrant sexuality.
24. Creating art nourishes my soul and brings me joy.
25. I am a lovable and desirable being.
26. I am comfortable in my body and I treat it with care.
27. I allow my creativity to flow through me freely.
28. I receive pleasure and abundance with every breath I take.
29. I let go of past feelings that no longer serve me.
30. Creative energy flows through me freely.

Sacral Chakra Affirmations for Creativity & Sensuality

1. I choose to feel joy and excitement often.
2. I am spontaneous and I allow my intuition to guide me.
3. I breathe in powerful golden light.
4. I feel powerful in embracing my sexuality.
5. My sexuality is sacred.
6. My life gets better every day, as I learn to claim my inner peace.
7. I take pride in being a good friend.
8. The people in my life bring out the best in me, and I bring out the best in them.
9. I accept help when I need it.
10. I am fully engaged in my own life and create experiences that reflect my best self.
11. My life is interesting, enriching, and fulfilling.
12. I am living a pleasurable life.
13. I am grateful for the joy being me.
14. I trust my feelings and give them ample room for expression.
15. I celebrate my sexuality.
16. I am honouring my body and treating myself respectfully.
17. I am feeling complete peace from within
18. It is my birthright to receive pleasure and have all my needs met.
19. I am radiant, beautiful, creative, and enjoy a healthy and passionate life.
20. I attract like-minded people who support and love me for who I am.
21. I am open to the flow of creativity.
22. I am creative, passionate, and inspired.
23. I feel joyful, energetic, and alive.
24. I am pure, positive energy.
25. My emotions flow freely in a balanced and healthy way.
26. I allow the flow of positive energy to effortlessly move through me.
27. I am creative.
28. I am at home in my body.
29. My emotions are guides.
30. My emotions are my teachers.
31. My creativity is endless.
32. My creativity is fluid.
33. I am safe to express myself.
34. It is safe to explore my sexuality.
35. I deserve to be joyful.
36. I live a creative, vibrant, passionate life.
37. I am vibrating pure joy, abundance, and prosperity.
38. Endless prosperity flows to and through me.
39. I am cultivating a beautiful life free of stress, worries, or fear.
40. I deserve absolute and unconditional bliss.

Sacral Chakra Affirmations for Emotions

1. Unconditional joy is my birthright.
2. I make space in my life for play.
3. Play is a priority, not an option.
4. It is right for me to choose joy, fun, and play in my daily life.
5. I find new ways to express my creativity.
6. I am connected to an endless source of innovation, inspiration, and creativity.
7. I radiate passion and prosperity.
8. I embrace life with vigour and passion.
9. Limitless joy is my birthright.
10. I deeply respect and honour my sacred body.
11. My body is a work of art.
12. My body is a masterpiece.
13. I honour my own divine sensuality.
14. I am a sensual and passionate being.
15. I embrace intimacy with others.
16. I honour my desires.
17. I honour my sensuality.
18. I honour my ability to express myself.
19. My sexual energy is a blessing.
20. I can only control my actions and that is enough.
21. I am independent.
22. I listen to my sacred body and give it what it needs.
23. I am comfortable moving my body in ways that feel good to me.
24. I am worthy of being desired.
25. I am worthy and deserving of respect from myself and others.
26. I am open, honest, forgiving, and compassionate.
27. I am flexible, adaptable, and open to change.
28. I know my self-worth, and I will not settle for less than I deserve.
29. All that I am is in perfect harmony.
30. I am a divine sexual being.

Sacral Chakra Yoga Poses

When you focus specifically on your sacral chakra, intending to physically maintain the balance and openness of this region, really pay attention to how your body moves with hop opening yoga poses. These can help alleviate physical problems caused by the imbalance of the sacral chakra. Try these following poses and don’t worry of you feel you are not doing them right first time. Just try. And these are free and simple to do anywhere at any time.

Wide angled seated forward pose

Upavistha Konasana

(Wide-Angled Seated Forward Bend) gives you the benefit of an intense stretch of the upper and lower body, as well as the calming effects of forward folds.

Pose Type: Forward bend

Targets: Lower Body

Goddess Pose

UTKATA KONASANA

Goddess Squat pose opens the hips and chest while strengthening and toning the lower body. Goddess pose stimulates the uro-genital, respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

Frog Pose

Mandukasana

Frog Pose aka Mandukasana is a hop opening posture that gets very intense very quickly. Try to bring your awareness back to the breath when the physical sensations get intense and you feel the effort required increasing. Take your time releasing from this pose to avoid any injuries. All fours in table top position with shoulders up over the wrists and elbows. Knees are directly over the hips. Widen the distance between the knees as much as you can without straining. On an exhale, bring the forearms down to earth. The elbows are shoulder distance apart. Shoulders are directly on top of the elbows. Palms of the hands are on the earth and the fingers spread wide On an inhale, lengthen the spine. Reach the crown of the head forward and the tail bone back in the opposite direction. Engage the core by gently drawing the navel in and up towards the spine. Soften the heart and torso towards the earth while simultaneously drawing the hips back and down. To release this posture, lift the forearms off the earth and the place the palms of the hands on the ground. Walk the hands back towards the hips as you gently bring the soles of the feet together in back of you. Bring the knees together and sit the buttocks on the feet.

Pigeon Pose

Eka Pada Rajakapotasana

Increases hip mobility. Uses core strength to keep your hips level. Calms your mind.

On all fours, bring your right knee forward towards your right wrist, just behind your wrist or to the outer or the inner edge of it. See which way feels right for you, giving you a stretch on your outer hip without any discomfort in your knee. Your right ankle will be somewhere in front of your left hip. Slide your left leg back and point your toes, your heel is pointing up to the ceiling. Scissor your hips together, by drawing your legs in towards each other. Use some support under your right buttock if needed, to keep your hips level. As you inhale, come onto your fingertips, lengthen your spine, draw your navel in and open your chest. As you exhale, walk your hands forward and lower your upper body towards the floor. You can rest your forearms and forehead on the mat. Stay for 5 breaths or longer. On each exhalation, try to release the tension in your right hip. To come out of the pose, push back through the hands, lift your hips and move your leg back into all fours. Repeat on the other side.

Triangle Pose

The triangle pose, also called Trikonasana (“trikona” is a Sanskrit word for “triangle,” while “asana” means “pose”), is a foundational standing pose in yoga that strengthens and lengthens the hamstrings and groin while also opening the shoulders and stretching the hips. The foundational posture is named for the triangle shape your body makes during the move.. Starting in the mountain pose (or Tadasana), move your feet a little wider than shoulder-width apart, and extend your arms, so they’re parallel to the ground with your palms facing down. If you’re starting on the right side, the right foot should be at a 90-degree angle with the end of the mat, with your left foot at a 45-degree angle.

Bend to the side. Take a deep breath, then exhale as you bend your body at the hip joint, extending to the side over the right leg (if you’re starting on the right). Keep the sides of your waist long, not scrunched. Lengthen your tail-bone towards your back heel.

Reach with your arms. As you reach your right arm down to your right foot, gently grab your ankle with your right hand. At the same, your left arm should be extending upwards, with the fingers of your left hand pointed towards the ceiling, forming a straight, vertical line with your arms and shoulders. Hold and repeat. With your shoulders aligned, turn your head and look up to the ceiling. Briefly hold, then return to the starting position and repeat with the left leg.

Feeding the Sacral Chakra

Delightful sweet fruits are perfect here, such as melons, mangos, strawberries, passion fruit, oranges, coconut. Even honey and nuts are recommended for it. As for spices, cinnamon, vanilla, sesame seeds help to nourish the chakra.

Essential oils for your sacral chakra:

Mandarin – Known for its stress-relieving properties, mandarin is a great oil for boosting self-worth and inspiring a positive mindset.

It is said to encourage joyful feelings and is traditionally associated with prosperity, allowing artistic expression unencumbered by stress and self-doubt.

Patchouli – Often associated with the lower chakras due to its ability to draw energy down through the body, patchouli is a grounding oil that helps to connect us to our surroundings.

It is known to lift low moods and promote a feeling of self-belief. The indulgent and complex scent of patchouli oil can also help to inspire creativity.

Ylang Ylang -Ylang Ylang oil is a popular mood-booster that has been used to fight unproductive emotions such as anger, jealousy, and low self-esteem.

A natural energiser, it also helps to increase libido and encourage sexual confidence.

Sacral Chakra Sound Healing

The sacral chakra, or Svadhisthana in Sanskrit, is located just below the navel. It is associated with orange, creativity, pleasure, and sexuality. Regarding the solfeggio frequencies, 417 Hz is said to help with creative visualization.

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