Coming Home Meditation Tuesday 9-10am EST ~ Sacral Chakra Work
Coming Home Meditation Tuesday 9-10am EST ~ Sacral Chakra Work
Join me as we move up the central channel from the root to the sacral chakra. Tomorrow we'll work with attunement, the plant world, and water.
Dear Friends,
Join me for our continued exploration of the chakras through meditation. Tomorrow we will start a two-week exploration of the sacral chakra, which lives in the lower belly/abdomen and governs creativity, fertility, sexuality, desire, and sensuality/felt sense.
This chakra is traditionally associated with the element of water. It is depicted as the color orange in the Indian schools and green in the Tibetan systems. It is the home of the womb (physical and energetic); sensory center of arousal, passion, and desire; home to the Kundalini energy, life force, “serpent wisdom” that lies coiled at the base of the central channel waiting to be ignited and delighted. It is also associated with the intelligence of the plant world and the fertility and fecundity of the earth.
In terms of developmental theory (John Churchill, Dan Brown) it is the home of the quality of attunement—the feeling of comfort and pleasure an infant experiences when they are being attuned to by The Mother (not just the human mother, but the Great Mother). An attuned mother knows when her child is hungry, tired, sick, because she is sensing the child’s nervous system, emotions, and needs…she is showering (water element) her child with loving awareness. This gives the budding nervous system a chance to calibrate and relax; to feel its signals are being received clearly and being responded to appropriately. The child learns that they will get what they need to thrive and they can create and activate through their desires and needs. And THAT feels good.
When attunement between the primary caregivers and the child is poor or lacking, the second chakra can suffer. We might feel lost or disconnected from our desires and needs; maybe even ashamed. We might feel unmet in our relationships or unsure whether or not we can get our needs met. We might feel creatively or sexually stifled or blocked. Second chakra issues can also lead to addiction because the desire-fulfillment mechanism is out of whack. We can also become over-reliant on the sacral chakra if the root chakra never develops/opens fully. Then, our sense of survival and safety, which should be at the root, becomes fused with our evolutionary drive and desires. Romance, sexuality and relationships can feel existential in Nature, like life and death.
Tomorrow, I want to sit together and feel our way into a healthy experience of being attuned to by The Mother. I want to feel the element of water, the life and intelligence of the plant world, the fertility of the Earth and of ideas. We can use our imaginal power to heal our attachment wounds. We can restore balance. We can get our serpent power flowing and feel more sensuality, more pleasure, more vitality.
Join me tomorrow morning from 9-10am EST for a conversation and group guided meditation. It will be delicious and nourishing.
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