The sacral chakra governs our menstrual cycles, fertility and creativity. You can balance and strengthen your sacral chakra by practicing kegal exercise for a few minutes a day.
The area approximately 4 fingers width below our belly button – the area of the womb – is an important area for our menstrual health, creativity and sexuality.
In the Chinese tradition, it’s called the “Dan Tien” (Field of Elixir). And in the Indian tradition, it’s called the “Swadhisthana” (Sacral Chakra).
What Does Sacral Chakra Mean
Physically
The Sacral Chakra governs the lower abdomen, spleen, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, urinary bladders, pancreas, adrenal glands, sexual organs, reproduction and fertility.
Emotionally
It houses our emotional body – the ability to feel and process our emotions.
Spiritually
It’s the source of our intuition and creativity. And it symbolizes our relationship with sex, power and money.
When the Sacred Chakra is Balanced
We’re able to express our emotions in natural and healthy ways. We’re able to create healthy and intimate relationships. And we’re able to express ourselves creatively, and attract abundance in our lives.
When the Sacral Chakra is Blocked
We may experience physical and emotional problems such as PMS, PMDD, period pain, menstrual irregularities, low libido, depression, intense anger or mood swings.
Past trauma or abuse, repressed or inappropriately expressed emotions from childhood, negative beliefs about sex, power and money, and unhealthy lifestyles can all contribute to the blockage in this area.
How to Balance the Sacral Chakra
Unblocking the energy stuck in this area can help heal many of our menstrual and emotional disharmonies. Moreover, it helps us to awaken the radiant goddess from within, so we can shine in our most glorious light.
There are many exercises that can help stimulate and move the energy in our Sacral Chakra. In fact, any exercise that involves moving your pelvis and hips would be helpful, such as hula dancing and belly dancing.
Today, I want to share an ancient Tantra practice – Kegal exercise – to help strengthen your pelvic floor and pump energy into your Sacral Chakra.
Kegal Exercise
This exercise is also called PC Pump. PC stands for pubococcygeus muscle, which is located halfway between your external genitalia and anus. It forms the floor of the pelvic cavity and supports the pelvic organs.
The PC muscle also controls urine flow and contracts during orgasm. If you’re having difficulty finding it, it’s the muscle that allows you to stop urine flow mid-stream. Or you can always take note of it when you have your next orgasm.
The exercise is fairly simple. Anyone can do it.
Step 1
Sit comfortably in a chair or on the floor. Keep your back straight and your body relaxed.
Step 2
Take a few slow, deep breathes in and out of your belly. Inhale, allow your breath to expand and fill up your belly, and exhale, emptying it all out.
Step 3
On an in-breath, tighten your PC muscle. Hold for a moment.
Step 4
On the out-breath, relax it. Focus on the relaxing, and allow your PC muscle to relax completely.
Step 5
Repeat the cycle of inhaling and exhaling, tightening and relaxing the PC muscle a few times.
You can start with 30-50 times a day, and work your way up to 200 times a day. Overtime, it will strengthen your pelvic area and increase the energy flow in your Sacral Chakra.
And the benefits? Improved menstrual health, vitality, creativity, intuition, sensuality and sexual enjoyment.
Personally, I find this exercise a wonderful reminder for me to reconnect with and re-engage my body. It also helps energize me. After 10-20 pumps, I often get an immediate energy boost.
And the beauty is that you can do this exercise anywhere and at any time. Nobody is going to know except you.
Recently I started to do this when my car is stopped by a red light. It’s kind of naughty I know. But I like it!
If you want a deeper understanding of the chakras and how to use it to assist your healing, read Anodea Judith’s Wheels of Life, a User’s Guide to the Chakra System.
You may also want to check out Intimate Rose Kegal Exercise System, which is a doctor recommended kegal exercise kit that can help safely and effectively reduce incontinence, prevent vaginal prolapse, strengthen pelvic wall muscles, increase desire, and enhance intimacy.
Let me know how it is for you…
Tsangaratou says
December 11, 2012 at 9:49 amthanx, nice! An advanced variation:
visualise while breathing in through nose that a ball of light from your base chakra goes along your back, points: taille, middle of back, between shoulders, back of your head, crone, to end up at the 3d eye. This while you tight your muscle up.
Breathing out through the mouth takes the light ball along the front side, first voice chakra, then thymus, through the hart and solar plexus and then a) send the energy at point of start, while relaxing your muscle b) release the energy under your bellybutton and left, to send it to your reins. This way you “save” this energy, to release it on a chosen moment or to quarantee extra energy/health/strenght on emotional but also physical level.
After some practise you can also easily do this anywhere anytime. It just needs a bit more concentration an the ability of visualisation.
Have fun with this variation!
Jingtastic says
December 20, 2012 at 3:26 pmI love this advanced Kegal exercise you suggested. Thank you so much for sharing!
Jingtastic says
June 5, 2012 at 6:46 pmMay, Thanks for sharing 🙂
May R. Nacar says
June 2, 2012 at 2:39 amnice to know more about it, its really effective.