Experience more Vitality + Presence + Safety

The Root Chakra is all about our foundation and being in the present moment, the “right now”. It’s our fight/flight/freeze response. It’s how we feel safe, secure, stable, and comfortable, and {just like roots} how we receive nourishment from the earth and life-force energy {prana}.

If you commonly feel fear + anxiety + depression, then you might be experiencing a root chakra block in relation to how your other chakras are working.

What does a Balanced Root Chakra look like?

Grounded, rooted in reality, physical ease, security, comfort. Prosperity, common sense, energetic, reliable, motivated, adventurous, able to manifest, able to be calm, in-the-moment, or be the eye-of-the-storm.

Common imbalances:

Fast + Over Active:

Receiving more than giving, feeling hot, heavy, and tired, hypochondria, paranoia, excessive spending, laziness, fatigue, fear of change, obsession with safety/security, rigid boundaries, overeating, overweight, greed, hoarding, excessive materiality, impatience, OCD, tight quadriceps, achilles tendonitis, tight IT band, bunions,

Slow + Under Active/Depleted:

Giving more than receiving, spaciness, disconnected, underweight, fear, anxiety, lack of focus, no follow-through, self-destructiveness, addiction, sense of being unlovable, masochistic, suicidal, not wanting to be here, passivity, floating, financial lack, poor boundaries, disorganization, tight hamstrings, constipation, arthritis, bladder issues

Sometimes injuries present themselves when we need to bring a chakra back into harmony. For instance, if you’re constantly stubbing your toe, then you might need to ground yourself by slowing down and getting more present.

How To Balance Your Root Chakra

Use aromatherapy on your body or room, hold + carry crystals with you, use colors in your food, clothes, visualizations, listen to sound healing for vibrational alignment, use your senses to engage active sensations, repeat affirmations and Reiki to bring your root chakra back into harmony with your energy system. Here are other associations and helpful practices you can do to bring more awareness + harmony to this chakra:

• Element: Earth
  Walk barefoot. Garden. Go outside often. Hiking. Camping. Backpacking, Rock-climbing,

• Sound: Lam + Tone ‘G’ (based on 432 hz)
  Use a singing bowl, tuning forks, your voice or any instrument to send vibrations to balance

• Sense: Smell
  Pheromones, grass and earthy smells like rich soil

• Color: Deep Red
  Wear red, cook with red spices + foods. Eat red fruit + root vegetables. Meditate + visualize red.

• Location: Perineum + secondary at soles of feet
  When you sit, imagine your tailbone growing toward the earth.

• Mudra: Pran Mudra
  Touch the tips of both thumbs to the ring finger and pinkie of each hand. Extend the pointer finger and middle finger straight out. Place your hand in the mudra with the backs of your hands in your lap. Hold the mudra for three to five minutes. You can also hold it longer during meditation.

• Opens: downward.
  Imagine roots growing from your feet or a cone like a big dress moving down and wide for a strong foundation

• Pair: Crown Chakra
  
• Yoga Poses: standing postures, chair, tree, forward folds, deep belly breath, mula bandha
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• Crystal: Smokey Quartz
  Use crystals to hold throughout day to remind you to ground. Or place them in a place you look at often.

• Essential Oils: Patchouli + Vetiver + The Essential Chakra Spray
  Rub on feet or spray from crown of the head down and over the body.

• Affirmations: “I am safe” “I have” “I am here” “I exist”
  Repeat several times. especially when you feel in lack.

How To Keep You Chakras in Harmony

Keeping your physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic bodies working optimally also requires you to pay attention to it daily. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself:

1. How is my body doing?
2. What am I really feeling?
3. How are my energy levels?
4. Is my heart open?
5. Am I expressing myself?
6. How is my brain?
7. Am I connected?

Are Your Chakras Balanced?

Take this Chakra quiz to find out which of your chakras needs the most attention right now.

Learn More about Chakras

What are Chakras: A Reference Guide

• First Root Chakra – Manipura
• Second Sacral Chakra: Svadisthana
• Third Solar Plexus Chakra – Manipura
• Fourth Heart Chakra – Anahata
• Fifth Throat Chakra – Visuddha
• Sixth Third Eye Chakra – Ajna
• Seventh Crown Chakra – Sahasrara

A Personalized Chakra Balancing Session

If you are wanting to bring more awareness + harmony into the first chakra within your own energy system, then Book a 90-minute Session with Jill. This Chakra Balancing Session will guide you through a customized yoga flow + alchemy protocols + a guided Reiki meditation. Currently all sessions are done virtually.