Svadhisthana

sacral

The second chakra located just below the navel. It is associated with creativity, sexuality, and emotional balance. 



 Signs of an imbalanced sacral chakra

  • feeling overly sensitive

  • prone to feeling guilty

  • loneliness

  • lacking in creative energy

  • fearing change

  • having low self-confidence

  • trust issues

  • anxiety and/or depression

  • feeling numb and/or detached from others.


Signs of an overactive sacral chakra

  • proneness to manipulating others

  • developing addictive behaviors: food addiction, sugar addiction, sex addiction, alcohol or drug addiction, workaholism, screen addiction


How to Open your SACRal chakra

Express gratitude to your body. Practice self compassion like hugging yourself.



Dance

The hips hold unprocessed emotion and the womb responds to rhythm. Movement is communication with the body.

Connect to water

Helps clear stagnant emotions, promotes creativity, and enhances sensory pleasure encouraging a flow state, and allowing us to release rigid control and embrace change.

Chant the mantra "VAm"

Stimulates the flow of creative, emotional, and sexual energy.

Pronounced as "VUM".


How to balance SACRal chakra

Eat more healthful “orange” foods such as oranges, peaches, sweet potatoes, carrots, mangoes, coconut, pumpkin, squash, papaya, and spices such as cinnamon and turmeric.