Chakra Fridays – First Chakra Muladhara

Hello all, I hope you are just as excited for the second post in the series Chakra Fridays! If you are new to the series or want to know what a chakra is before continuing – click here for my first Chakra Fridays post.

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Today we are going to discuss the first chakra, located at the base of your spine (perineum). The Sanskrit name, Muladhara, means root/support, and that is exactly what this chakra does. This is the energy of grounding and survival. This chakra supports all other chakras and must therefore be the building block and place for all earthly matters. If we were to relate it to psychology and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, this chakra is directly correlated with the base of the pyramid and the need to satisfy our physiological needs. Money problems, keeping the body healthy, eating and day to day living are all wrapped up in this chakra. Muladhara chakra is a deep red color, which one can imagine the color lava in the center of the earth. The Hindus also associate this chakra with a four pedaled lotus, which resembles a square – solid, unmoving. 

My favorite quote regarding this chakra by Anodea Judith, from the book Wheels of Life is “Limitation is a necessity for manifestation” (70). She then goes on to explain that without limiting our choices and our paths, we end up going nowhere. This chakra is about finding the earth below you, support you, ground you and from there, decide your next step. Personally, this chakra is something I need to invest more energy into because I can never seem to find the right balance between being realistic, foot on the ground, and imaginative, playing around with ideas of opportunities. Often times, I get “bored” thinking too much about the right now. I hate to admit this, but I love dreaming and longing and willing to know the next move.

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The universe must have known that I was living my week focusing on the earth chakra (of course the Universe  knows – it knows everything!) in order for me have a juicy blog post because last Saturday (the day AFTER my first chakra series post) I fell down the stairs. On my butt – bump bump bump I go. So I have had no choice but to pay attention to my lowest chakra because my butt bone has been hurting all week!  I am telling you it’s just one injury after the next this year! But it brought on an interesting perspective onto this chakra. The red, for the fiery pain I feel when I sit, to the square, of how my butt feels after being still for too long, to the  grounding of having to get up and sit down very slowly in order to not feel shooting pain.

I can also tell you the yoga asanas I cannot perform without my butt bone hurting, therefore I am assuming if you perform these asanas you are probably igniting this chakra -

I wonder what this coming week will bring because next Friday I will be discussing the second chakra- the water chakra. Oh goodness… Click here to read about the second chakra!

Namaste.