sacral chakra Svadhisthana: Awaken the Ocean Within
Just beneath your navel, where the tides of orange sway, lives your sacral chakra Svadhisthana, the “dwelling place of the self.” This is the river of longing, the moonlit waters of creativity and desire. Here blooms the lush garden of pleasure, where life blossoms and dissolves. It teaches you how to flow, how to let joy ripple through you like silk, and how to honor the sacred dance of giving and receiving.
When it flows freely and is balanced, you feel alive, sensual, inspired. Your sacral chakra fills you with vitality, sensuality, creativity, and emotional depth. When imbalanced or blocked, you feel rigid, dry, cut off from your desires, or drowning in emotions you don’t know how to express, disconnected from both intimacy and inspiration. Balancing the Sacral Chakra is needed when it gets blocked (or becomes overactive) as there is a disruption in the flow of Life Force Energy.
Blockage of the svadhisthana energy center could be due to strict parenting, sexual abuse, toxic relationships, religious indoctrination etc.
Unbalanced Traits:
- Emotional instability – mood swings, feeling overwhelmed
- Suppressed creativity or overindulgence in fantasies
- Difficulty forming or maintaining intimate relationships
- Guilt or shame around pleasure and sexuality
- Addictive tendencies (food, sex, substances)
- Feeling numb, disconnected from emotions or body
- Overly dependent on others for emotional validation
- Fear of change, rigid in routines
- Reproductive or urinary issues (PMS, infertility, UTI)
- Feeling drained or fatigued creatively and sexually
Balanced Traits:
- Emotional flow and stability – ability to process emotions calmly
- Healthy creative expression and inspired imagination
- Healthy relationships with emotional and physical intimacy
- Comfortable embracing pleasure and a healthy view of sexuality
- Balanced desires and ability to enjoy life without excess
- Deep connection with one’s body, emotions, and sensuality
- Self-worth and emotional independence
- Flexibility, adaptability, and openness to change
- Physical vitality in reproductive and lower abdominal areas
- Abundant energy and zest for life
Qualities
- Colour: Orange
- Beeja Mantra: Vam
- Element (Mahābhūta): 🌏 Jal— Water
- Location: Just below the navel, in your hips & lower belly
- Nature: Feminine
- Sense (Indriya): Taste
- Quality: Emotion, pleasure, creativity, intimacy, flow
Deities:
Vishnu – Sustainer of life and fluidity of creation
Rakini – The Shakti of Svadhisthana; goddess of sensuality, creativity, and emotional flow
Beneath The Navel
Beneath your navel
the tides of orange sway.
Here lives the river of longing,
the moonlit waters of creativity.
It is the sweet ache of desire,
the lush garden of pleasure
where life blossoms and dissolves.
It teaches you to flow,
to let joy ripple through you like silk,
to honor the sacred dance of give and receive.
I feel. I create. I flow.
Invocation:
I place the waters in my hips,
the moon in my womb,
the river in my veins.
I am the ocean, and the ocean is me.
Pleasure and flow awaken me.
how to heal sacral chakra
Chakra healing is the process of cleansing and energising one or more than one chakra, this can be done by using certain modalities. Other things such as foods, sounds, smells, yoga practices and healing crystals can also help. Follow it up by balancing the sacral chakra for a more centered result.
Having a healthy and balanced Sacral chakra svadhisthana energy center creates a sense of creativity, trust and expression. Balancing the Sacral Chakra dissipates the innate guilt and dispassion related to sensuality or pleasure, making you open to experiencing life and have passion for it. This, in turn, makes you emotionally open while also grounded. You will also be able to enjoy spontaneity and creativity.
Nyāsa
Nyāsa (न्यास) literally means ‘placing’ . It is the act of mentally (and often physically) placing mantras, elements, deities, or energies into specific parts of the body to consecrate it as a temple of the divine.
Sit in a comfortable meditative posture.
Take a few deep breaths to center yourself.
Touch or simply focus your awareness on the chakra area.
Recite the mantra(s):
“Om āpaḥ svāhā” (Element Water, I bow to you)
“Om āpyaṁ sthāpaya jaleṣu me rasaḥ.” (Please place the Waters within me as vitality.)
“Om Vishnave ca Rākinyai ca namah, sthāpaya svādhiṣṭhāne me saukhyam.” (I bow to Lord Vishnu and Rakini, please place harmony and well-being in my sacral.)
Visualize the element and/ or deity, and feel the quality of that chakra awaken within you.
At each step, you can lightly touch the spot (or just hover your palm there if preferred), visualising the sound and energy.
Disclaimer: The mantras given here are modern Sanskrit constructions, intended as poetic, nyāsa-style invocations for meditation. These are not scripturally attested Vedic or Tantric mantras. These have been constructed to fit the spirit of nyāsa for an English-speaking audience who might not be versed in bīja or more cryptic Tantric syllables.
Balancing the Sacral Chakra
Having gone through a period of unbalanced Sacral Chakra, I know that it can be tough. But shadow work and balancing the root chakra did help a lot. So, till the time you find your balance.. hang in there!
I can recommend the following practices (pick and choose as per your disposition) for balancing the sacral chakra:
Yoga for balancing the sacral chakra
Certain asanas (Poses) are beneficial, some of them are:-
- Utkata Konasana, also known as Goddess Pose
- Ardha Hanumanasana, also known as Half Split Pose
- Prasarita Padottanasana, also known as Wide legged forward bend Pose
- Anjaneyasana, also known as the Low lunge Pose
- Paschimottanasana, also known as Seated Forward Bend Pose.
Flow like Water
You are water. You are the ocean remembering itself. Let your hips loosen, your emotions flow, and your soul remember the sweetness of being alive.
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