Chakra Series: Sacral

In our exclusive meditation class, we embark on a transformative journey targeting the sacral chakra, the center of creativity and emotional well-being. As we delve into the depths of our emotional reservoirs, we harness the power of scientific insights and therapeutic spirituality to unlock new pathways of self-discovery and healing.

Guided by expertly curated meditations, participants are led through a series of exercises designed to balance and energize the sacral chakra, fostering a harmonious connection between mind, body, and spirit. The experience culminates with a captivating handpan session, its resonant frequencies weaving a tapestry of sound that soothes the soul and amplifies our inner tranquility.

This unique combination of chakra-focused meditation and handpan music creates a sanctuary for rejuvenation, empowering you to emerge with a renewed sense of purpose and vitality.

Transcript

Every week I'll be going into a different chakra talking a little bit about it and guiding a meditation to help rebalance it.

So this week we are talking about the sacral chakra.

Does anybody know what that is?

Are you guys familiar with that?

Is anybody like what the heck is he talking about?

No idea?

So the chakras are emotional centers in the body,

Energy centers in the body.

For instance when you feel nervous and we say we have butterflies in the stomach right?

That's the feeling of nervousness locating itself here over what we call the solar plexus chakra which is the seat of confidence for instance.

When we talk about love we talk about the heart.

If you really think about that it makes no sense right?

The heart is this organ that's pumping blood through the body.

What does the heart have to do with love?

Why do we say that the heart has anything to do with love?

Why do we feel love here?

Because that's the chakras,

The emotional center is there for that.

When we want to say something but we're holding back but we're for whatever reason not speaking out we feel a lump in our throat right?

Why would we feel a lump in our throat if we're not speaking?

What is what does that have to do with anything?

Well that's the chakra for communication,

For expression,

The throat chakra.

So when we look at our everyday lives,

Our everyday relationship with emotions in the body we actually start to see that different themes are situated in different parts of the body.

This is an Indian understanding,

This comes from India,

The word chakra means wheel in Sanskrit.

But it's very much our own experience if we really step back and look at how our emotions are moving throughout the body.

So as we start going deeper into that and looking at it more we actually get to begin working with those themes in the body.

A lot of times also sicknesses and diseases in the body they start from the mental and emotional level and if we're not processing right,

If we're not processing our fear properly and our solar plexus is always tight and we always feel nervous we'll probably have trouble with our stomach right?

Might have like reflux,

Stomach reflux or whatever different things like this.

So very much so our emotions affect the body and how the body is doing,

The body's ability to be healthy.

Times that we're not able to process different emotions also can lead the body to dysregulation and to sickness.

So the sacral chakra is located just beneath the belly button.

We say that the sacral chakra is the element of water and the sacral chakra is the place of creativity,

Of creation.

So it's also considered a sexual chakra and if you think about even the words procreation right,

So creation and sex are actually very much linked.

When you see people that are dancing in a way that you'd call seductive right with like sexual or sensual energy right,

It's moving the hips,

It's moving the sacral energy.

Conversely from this place of creativity and movement and flow it's also this place of like exploration.

If you think of a baby when they're first learning to crawl and they're first starting to move around their environment and kind of look at things,

That's when the sacral is starting to be developed.

It's this feeling of getting to explore,

Understand new things.

Because the sacral has to do with sensuality and sexuality and creativity and movement,

It's also the place that we can feel blocked creatively.

It's the place where we also hold shame.

It's a place that we also,

When we're,

Man you ever have one of those words that you're just like procrastination,

There we go,

When we're procrastinating it's also from that area.

It's the sense of something wanting to come through,

To be created,

To be done but we're we're holding off,

We're not doing it,

We're waiting.

So the sacral as an energy center has these themes and as we start working with that,

Whether that's through movement,

Whether that's through even like receiving massage or something,

Right,

Something that we just start to feel touches good on the body,

Whether we're actually using creativity like art creativity,

Like painting,

Expression like that,

It starts to kind of open up this feeling of movement and creation.

Some of the chakras also have kind of like sub-links to them.

So the sacral is actually linked to the heart and that's kind of that like love versus sex dynamic that we often see that some people think it's love but it's sexual,

Some people are more sexual but you know that sometimes the energy can kind of go more in a sexual energy and more in a loving energy and that kind of polarity between those two things.

In the same way the throat and the solar plexus are often linked which is why confidence and speech and speaking out have so much to do with each other.

When we don't feel confident we're not able to speak and as we start speaking we feel more confident,

Right,

And then also the third eye and the root.

So different chakras have different connections.

As we begin working with the chakras we actually will notice that we're starting to clear away emotional themes,

Starting to clear away behaviors,

Perceptions,

Beliefs.

So doing this work even if it's passively,

Even if you just get to lay there and relax and I lead you in a guided meditation to that spot,

It's still going to begin working with those energies.

It's going to begin softening.

It's going to begin moving.

The sacral is also really just a center of emotion.

It's where we start to really feel things.

Creativity is this life force.

We,

In Tai Chi and Qi Gong,

It's like the Dan Tian.

It's like this lower energy center.

So we have a lot of power there and a lot of our feelings come from down there.

So as we start to get in touch with that we start to allow ourselves to feel safe in the body.

We start to feel and have permission to express ourselves,

Permission to create without fear of judgment,

Without fear of failure.

We start to again get in touch with this this life force,

This feeling like it feels joyful to be here.

The real power of the sacral,

It's also this like childlike joy.

The children just run around.

You give a child a piece of paper and you know some paints and you say make something and they'll just go at it.

You take that same paper and paints and you put in front of a class of high schoolers and you say make something and they'll say what should we make.

That something happens over the course of our education where we start to question what should I create?

How should I create?

There's a right or a wrong.

I could do this right or wrong.

You give that to children.

Children just create continuously all the time.

They play make-believe even when you want them to stop because they're just continuously creating.

They're creative beings.

We are creative beings.

Through our education that's got a cap put on it.

Through religion,

Sexuality has a cap put on it.

Through a lot of things in our culture,

Parts of us that just want to express have been restrained and been limited.

There's parts of that which are helpful.

It's helpful to have focus and helpful to have discipline and helpful to have morality and things like this.

Also it's created the sense of shame and a sense of judgment.

If you go to other countries,

Depending on the country,

You go to South America and it's a very sacrally active place.

You go to Brazil and it's like hey,

The sacral is alive.

There's that energy.

Then I lived in Germany for a while and the sacral is completely offline.

A lot of shame.

Everything is just square.

That's more about thought.

It's more about thinking the right way.

That's considered the highest thing.

Different countries actually have different chakras that are more online.

It's almost more like their country's chakra,

If that makes sense.

I'm not sure what the US is yet.

We'll have to think about it.

Probably like solar plexus.

Yee-haw!

Power!

Go!

Like that.

It's like confidence.

Today as we get into the sacral,

I invite you to get in touch with the theme for yourself.

In which ways you're blocking yourself from creating?

In which ways are you actually wanting to do more?

To become more?

To create more?

But for whatever reason there's a tightness or a constriction or a block of shame or judgment or guilt or uncertainty around that.

And really just getting into that energy,

Into that space which could feel uncomfortable,

But also it can be extremely liberating once we really allow ourselves to go there.

We never have to be afraid of ourselves.

We never have to be afraid of our own feelings.

Your own feelings will never hurt you.

If anything,

If you go into the scary feelings,

Into the painful feelings,

Oftentimes you'll find the exact opposite happens.

That there's a ton of joy underneath that.

There's a ton of life energy that can be unlocked when we really face and feel and go inside.

So that's the impulse for today.

I invite you guys to lay down to get in a position that's comfortable.

Turn down the lights.

You can tell we've just had daylight savings time because it's still light outside.

So as you begin to relax,

I invite you to take a few deep breaths down into your sacral,

So just below the belly button.

And as we bring our awareness down to that spot,

Just noticing.

Noticing what is real for you in that area.

Is it active?

Is it warm?

Is it connected?

Is it dull or disconnected?

Is there a pressure or attention?

An anxiety?

What is real for you in this part of your body?

The color is orange.

The element is water.

The theme is creation.

How freely can you create?

Can you create the things you want?

Can you create the life you want?

How free are you in your expression?

Your energetic expression.

The creativity through the movements of your body,

Through the way that you dress.

How you decorate your home.

Are you able to enjoy?

As the time when you were a child and you'd wake up in the morning,

Feeling that excitement for the day,

For some of us,

We've forgotten that feeling.

Reconnect to that child.

Maybe it was in the summertime.

You'd wake up,

You'd know that it's going to be a fun day of playing with a friend.

Maybe you're at one of your favorite places.

See yourself as a child playing,

Having fun.

Maybe you feel very connected to this.

Maybe this feels very,

Very far away.

If we can let our child know,

I'm sorry that I haven't been playing with you.

I'm sorry that I haven't let you play.

I became so concerned with money and relationships and responsibilities.

Bogged down with thoughts and fears and other people's judgments.

I forgot to let you play.

But now I am here for you.

I see you.

And you can ask your child,

Where does your child want to go?

As you take your child's hand,

Your child can go anywhere,

The whole world,

Past,

Present,

Or future.

Where does that child want to go?

To the beach,

Forests,

Or mountains,

To Disney World,

To space,

The ocean.

And just take your child wherever they want to go.

Just imagine.

And as you're with your child,

Hand in hand,

You can say anything that that child needs to hear.

Their love,

That they're safe,

That everything's going to be all right.

That they're not alone,

That you are here for them.

And as you both smile,

The whole scene starts dissolving into light.

The light begins filling your body,

Filling the space around you.

Filling this room.

Beyond this room.

To begin to relax,

To let go.

Allowing our child to continue receiving whatever it is they need the most.

In the background.

Giving yourself the opportunity to rest.

As you connect out into the space around you,

I invite you to travel beyond the room,

Beyond the planet.

To just imagine yourself going out into the endless space.

To just imagine yourself going out into the endless space.

As you reach the edges of space and time,

The place where reality is birthing in every moment.

Allowing whichever energy,

Feeling,

Vibration,

Frequency that you need the most to slowly begin moving through space and time back here towards you.

And as that energy,

You can imagine it as a shimmering light eventually comes down into this room.

You imagine it coming down directly into your sacrum.

About three inches below the belly button.

Just breathing,

Receiving,

You don't have to understand.

You can simply be open to the process taking place.

Allowing a shifting of energy to occur.

Being open to receiving something new.

Breathing,

Receiving.

Allowing your sacral to receive this beautiful shimmering light radiating down into your sacrum.

And as that light this beautiful shimmering light radiating down from the edges of time and space giving you exactly what you need.

Allowing every sensation,

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A feel a nice opening, clearing and freedom to my sacral chakra. Thank you 💚