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304 ~ Chakra Series 2025: Root Chakra (The Foundation)
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Hello Magical Human & welcome back to Madison Mindset the Podcast 🧚🏼
HERE WE BEGIN another Chakra Series deep dive. The last Chakra series we did began in 2021 so it is time for an update. Here we go... 🌹🪨🌿
Join me as we dive into the first of a seven-part chakra series, exploring the root chakra (Muladhara) and how it serves as the foundation for our energetic alignment and balance.
This is a repurposed episode from "Held" the Podcast. Join Madison & Molly for this conversation.
episode overview:
• the chakra system originated 1500-500 BCE in India with roots in Hindu and Buddhist traditions
• "Chakra" means wheel in Sanskrit, pronounced "chuck-ra," representing spinning energy centers
• root chakra (Muladhara) is located at the base of spine and represents connection to earth element
• imbalanced root chakra manifests as feeling unsafe, ungrounded, financially insecure, or disconnected from body
• root chakra must be balanced before working with higher chakras – it's the foundation of the energetic system
• 3 key practices for Root Chakra
• root chakra aligns with the pudendal nerve, showing the connection between ancient wisdom and modern anatomy
• journal prompts for exploring your root chakra
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Hello Magical Human, welcome back to Madison Mindset the podcast. In this episode we are beginning another chakra series, so we are going through each of the seven chakras to better understand them, so we can work on our energetic alignment and balance. This episode was recorded on Held the podcast, which I did with one of my beautiful friends for 12 months. It was such an amazing experience so I thought I'd repurpose it on here, because it is such a great episode and you get to hear Molly chat as well, which is amazing. If you want to connect with Molly, her details are below. She's an amazing breathwork practitioner. She's an incredible coach as well. She's beautiful to chat to about mind and spirituality. So I hope you really enjoy this and you take something away from it. Let me know if you enjoy it and, of course, you will find a chakra practice on Patreon. If you're a Patreon member, feel free to come jump on there. We're going deep into root chakra practices. I can't wait to join this space with you. Enjoy, hello Magical Human, and welcome to Madison Mindset Podcast.
Speaker 2:My name is Madison. I'm a yoga teacher, a mindset and spirituality coach and a complete earth fairy. I see a world that is peaceful and easy to live in Humans that are awakened and enlightened towards who they are and what life truly is and why we are here. I understand life can be really hard. I've had a huge journey with anxiety myself. I understand what it's like to feel overwhelmed, overworked, stressed and frustrated within this earth. It is this journey that led me to begin my own growth journey, and it's only through those struggles that I was able to birth this podcast, so that you can have the tools and techniques and knowledge to help you step forward and be a being of light, a magical, magical earthly being who's grounded, supported, who takes on challenges with love and embraces the lessons that each day brings you. Are that being. I am here to walk you there.
Speaker 2:You will find many different kinds of episodes through this podcast. All are created in the moment and with love for you. Find the one you need for this moment and enjoy. Take a moment for yourself. Sit down with your journal and tune in. Welcome. Let's begin. Let's begin.
Speaker 3:Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Held. Hello Maddie, hello Molly, how are you doing? I'm good, thank you, I'm excited. Today we are starting our chakra series, which I'm really keen to learn from you, maddie. I've got a bit of an understanding about the chakras. I've done a lot of guided meditations and heard you talk about them a lot, and I feel like I've read about it quite a bit, but I'm excited for us to take a deep dive into each one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'll be so much fun. I love talking about the chakras. It's heaps of fun and very helpful as well, which?
Speaker 3:is nice. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So let's do our cycle check-in and stuff before we jump in.
Speaker 3:Yes, I will go first. I am on day two of my bleed. Yesterday it was a very rough day energetically and emotionally, but I'm feeling better today after taking some time for myself yesterday afternoon. My current lesson is, even though feeling some emotions is really hard and uncomfortable, like sadness or anger, I think it's better than getting stuck in overthinking. So my lesson is to feel rather than think, and a current blessing is feeling connected to my womb and my body. I've been having some sort of health challenges with my endo, but I'm taking a bit of a mindset shift. Rather than seeing them as bad or a burden, rather than seeing them as messages and an opportunity for me to connect deeper to my body. So that's me Over to you, maddie.
Speaker 2:Beautiful. That was so neat and tidy. I love it, thank you. I am on day. I want to say 23, 22 or 23. I'm not, oh, I've got no idea. Somewhere around there I'm definitely in luteal phase and feeling good so far, amazing.
Speaker 2:So we shall see Lesson. I've had a lot of challenges this past week since we last recorded, so I think the lesson for me which I already learned but it's hard to put into practice is like when you're angry or frustrated and you feel like other people are being completely unreasonable and you're kind of just feeling sorry for yourself and you're like no one gets me and you end up in that victim stance. The best thing you can do is try and get out of that and take a breath and just show up in the way the other person needs you. Because if you've got two people who are both in their victim like ego, you don't understand me. I'm right, you're wrong. If you're both in that stance and no one's going to win and the only thing you're going to lose is your relationship and your connection and you're going to damage things.
Speaker 2:So one of you has to take the first step to showing up the way the other person needs you. So, even if you feel like you didn't do what they said or it's ridiculous, you need to kind of put that down and just go. Look, I hear you, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you. Next time I'll do this. And yeah, next time can you do this for me? But I'm sorry, I love you and just reaffirm the love and the relationship and the other person will show up once you do that. But someone has to take the first step and that's really the key to harmonious relationships. Someone has to put their ego down and if you go first, the other person will as well. But as long as you're fighting, then they're going to fight you back. So yeah, I think that's the lesson, and it's so hard in the moment. It's so hard. I can feel my like little inner child tantrum happening in my chest and I'm like, oh, I could just get you right. Like, oh, I could just get you right.
Speaker 3:Like oh my God, yeah it's so hard, Honestly though so much eyeball rolls too.
Speaker 2:I'm like look yeah, I'm sorry, all right.
Speaker 3:Honestly, that whole thing. I'm like we need to cut that and put that out to the world because that is so powerful. That whole practice. I'm like like we're all human, like, yes, no wonder it is hard because we're all human, but like that is such a powerful lesson for everyone to take on board. And you know, try and implement. You know, and we're going to try, we're going to fail, but if we have that at the back of our mind, how yeah, I love what you said. It creates much more harmonious relationships.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's hard, and you'll hear it and be like, yeah, that's so true, I want to do that. And then next fight, you get into out the window and then you're like, oh yeah, I remember I was supposed to do that. Screw them, get them. It's like yeah you've got to put that down. Not easy, but take a breath and do it anyway and you won't regret it, but you will regret going the other way most of the time.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, you can do it. I'm still learning, though, big time, and my current blessing is Maz is working on the van really, really hard, and you know, it's not just for me, it's for both of us. We kind of co-own the van now and I'm kind of working towards getting my own little four-wheel drive and, you know, putting the van to other uses. So, yeah, I'm really grateful that he's has all these amazing skills and creativity and everything to do this job and he's doing just the most phenomenal job and I can't wait to show you. Molly, you're going to love it, like you, and Corey will have to take it away for a night, like it is so beautiful, we can test it out for you.
Speaker 1:I mean, I know you guys will be testing it out all the time.
Speaker 3:But that's amazing and also sorry. What cannot imagine you driving around like a normal car? I know.
Speaker 2:I know, but like I've been driving mother's ute around quite a bit because the van's not really drivable at the moment, it's kind of like a big workshop. And then yesterday I was driving mum's little car around and, oh my god, it felt so good to have like a normal sized car.
Speaker 2:It's so much easier, so much quicker. Oh my god, like it felt, so good. So I'm thinking like a little Suzuki Jimny or Sierra, like something like a little light, like I definitely want a four-wheel drive because I love going off on the dirt roads, yeah, um, and nothing too clunky and big, and I don't need a massive ute because I've got nothing to put in there, yeah, so I'm thinking something like that in a few months, oh amazing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's exciting, that's awesome. I can't wait. I'm so happy for you. No, I'm happy for me too, thank you. Oh my God, yeah it feels like a new little chapter. You know it is. I'm just envisioning you driving around in like a little zippy car.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little boxy, four-wheel, drive, nice and bouncy, so I don't get bogged.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God, I love it. That's amazing. Yeah, it'll be great, it'll be so good so the chakra system.
Speaker 2:Let's get into it Before we get started, because we're starting with root. It's important to understand that there are many chakras in the body and the seven we are going over are the main chakras, so you will hear there are more. These are the seven main ones and most important ones. You can focus on these and not worry about the other ones. It's completely fine. The chakra word is a Sanskrit word and it's pronounced chakra, not chakra everybody out there, not chakra, chakra.
Speaker 3:You taught me that.
Speaker 2:Like a chuck, like chuck it away. Chakra, chakra and the word in English is a wheel or an energy wheel. So, yeah, pretty cool. So the system originated about 1500 to 500 BCE, which is pretty crazy a long, long time ago, and it was in India and it has roots in Hindu and Buddhist spiritual traditions as well. So yoga and the chakra system were very much connected and united and used. But the chakra system goes across many different philosophies, not just yoga. Yeah, so it's important to know.
Speaker 2:So chakra means wheel, if you can picture. It's hard because you're only hearing me, so it's hard because I usually do like a physical demonstration of what it looks like. But if you picture a plate, like a dinner plate, and if you were to spin that around in a circle, you know, like in a horizontal circle, so the plate is still facing upwards, it could still have food on it, but it's spinning around that way. Okay, so that's what the seven chakras are doing. They're spinning around plates of energy, basically like a wheel, but not a wheel like a car. It's flat like a plate and it goes around and they're all stacked on top of each other. So we'll go through each one as we go through the weeks because we don't want this one episode to go on forever. But if you start with root chakra, it is the slowest spinning wheel in the seven main chakras. Each one gets faster and faster and that is the explanation of the color change in the chakra system. So the lower frequency spin that will give you the frequency of. So if you ever looked up root chakra frequencies, right, that's the speed basically of the spin and the color is red. So when it spins at that particular pace it'll be a particular red and a particular sound. So to tune the chakra, what you're doing is playing the correct frequency and bringing it up into tune, like you would tuning a guitar string. It's the same thing, right? So if your chakra, if root chakra, is out of balance and if it's a little bit lower than what it should be, the red turns into kind of a brownie red, like a dirty red, and the frequency drops, okay, and you'll feel that in a drop in energy, and then it can also go out of balance the other way. So it can also be hyperactive or out of balance to the top end and that makes the red go up into more of a pinky red, a very unnatural think. A lolly, like a sweet kind of red, and the frequency gets out of tune again. Okay, so we want the chakra to be sitting at the correct speed, at the correct frequency, in the right color.
Speaker 2:Root chakra is the lowest of the chakras and it is basically your connection to the earth element. Okay, so your entire body is made of earth. The food that you eat that comes from the earth then becomes the body. This is the basis of root chakra. It is your physical body, it is your physical vessel and if you're feeling, if you're out of balance in this, you'll feel a variety of things.
Speaker 2:You know you'll feel unsafe, ungrounded and even insecure, unsure about your physical presence on this earth. So just being here feels uncomfortable for you and you're not quite sure about the body. You know the body can feel a little bit, yeah, like you don't own it or like it. You know it can feel sick or, you know, in dis-ease, you know so, all of these kinds of things and can also make you feel disconnected from the earth itself. So issues that can arise, obviously body image, insecurities, a feeling of not safe. I am not safe on this world. This is also where you'll find money. Financial issues will be based in the root chakra, other things. If you picture Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which I believe is taught to us in school, you're given this like this food pyramid kind of thing, the chakras kind of follow along the lines of that.
Speaker 2:So the bottom one safety. Do I have food, do I have shelter? Am I safe? You know that is the basis of root chakra. So if you've got any issues, feeling unsafe, feeling insecure, feeling like money, financial stress, feeling like you don't belong somewhere or you're unsure of your physical presence, so you feel disconnected to the earth, disconnected to your body, and you're always in this fight or flight zone anxious, stressed, all of that. This is a sign that you are out of balance in root chakra. And the bad thing is right if root chakra is out of balance, all the other ones are out of balance as well.
Speaker 2:Root chakra is like the foundation of the house, right? If you have a dodgy foundation, the foundation of the house, right. If you have a dodgy foundation, the house isn't going to stay up. Gotcha, right, so that you know, concrete platform underneath the rest of the chakras has to be steady, it has to be solid. If that one is, you know, off center, the others are gone as well.
Speaker 2:So often people are stuck in their fight or flight, right? You're constantly like what's this, what's that? Am I okay? Oh my God, another bill? Oh, what am I going to do?
Speaker 2:Oh my God, constantly in this, insecure, you are stuck in the base and the lowest chakra and you will remain there unless you do work on it, which means looking at things like developing a healthy emotional regulation, developing healthy self-esteem, developing love for yourself or for another person, having the ability to speak and have genuine, honest conversations, and intuition and meditation and accessing that higher realm is way out of bounds for you. It's not even something you can do. So if you're trying to do that and you can't and you keep falling back into, I'm not safe, not safe, not safe. That's the reason. Okay, so the root chakra in sanskrit is pronounced muladhara, which is really beautiful. I think that's so much nicer than root, yes, right, but picture tree roots, right. It's your connection to the earth. If you lose your roots, the tree falls. Very important. So, in order to balance root chakra, three really cool practices you can do.
Speaker 2:One is barefoot on the earth. This is the most important practice and it is mentioned all through India and often you know they'll be walking around without shoes on. There's a reason for that. It's not because you know they don't want to wear shoes or whatever it is. It's literally like when you have your bare foot on the ground, more than the fact that it's good for every cell in your body, you are connecting to the frequency of the root chakra, which is the same as the earth, because root chakra is made out of earth stuff. Your body is made out of earth stuff. You need to be in alignment with the earth. So, barefoot as much as you can, take the shoes off as much as you can, even if you're inside, barefoot as best you can, no shoes.
Speaker 2:The second practice is yoga asana. So this is yoga postures. The yoga asanas were designed to help you balance your chakra system. So if you go to a traditional yoga class, by the end of the practice, you will have balanced every single chakra right. So that's why you feel so good. You get to the end and you're like, oh Wow.
Speaker 3:I never knew that that's so cool.
Speaker 2:And then you walk out of the yoga studio and you look at your phone and go, oh my God, a bill. And then it's all gone again, Right. And then yeah, so, yeah, so that's literally how it works, Like. So there's certain postures, such as the primal postures, which are given away by their name, so child's pose, happy baby posture, fetal position, right. They are all designed to connect you with the body's natural position in its earth form. Okay, Then postures like malasana, yogi squat that's where you're supposed to go to the toilet, right and that really deep squat position. That position connects you to root chakra, right. So all of those postures you know doing shavasana, sukhasana, which is your meditation seat all of them help balance root chakra. So you'll often find these postures in the beginning of a yoga practice to start with root getting grounded.
Speaker 3:Makes so much sense. I love that Beautiful.
Speaker 2:So, and the last practice is actually interesting I think you'll like this one, molly, because it's connected with the breath. This is a very interesting practice. I don't teach it myself, but it is something you can do for your own self if you want to give it a go. So you can either sit in your meditation seat or you can lie down with the soles of the feet together and the knees wide in a reclined butterfly position. So you know, root chakra is right down the base of your spine, at the tailbone. So you're just gently opening through the lower pelvis and the hips and pressing the back of the pelvis into the ground. From there you're going to inhale as much as you can and suck the belly in, really sucking the belly in, and then you're going to clench literally like your anus, like you're going to clench, like you're trying to if you imagine sucking up a straw through your bottom, like, literally like that. So it's quite uncomfortable. You hold that for as long as you can hold your breath 10, 15 seconds is good and then you relax everything and you breathe, so you're connecting. You can do that five to ten times in a row. So you breathe in, hold the belly in like suck it in, suck up the straw up your bottom, hold, exhale, and if you do that five to ten times, what you'll find is you feel so much more grounded, like so much more grounded. You really connect to the energy around the root space. And pausing the breaths, that's really powerful, um, so you can try that practice.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's also things like that's the three ones that I like the most, really really good. But then of course you can. You know things like eating from the earth, making sure you're eating fruits and vegetables and eating what you want to become. You know. So if you're vegetables and fruits, you will become the earth. If you're eating sugar and shit, you will become shit.
Speaker 3:You have to connect. Actually, one of the things that we recommend after doing deep, transformational breath work, we recommend a variety of grounding practices and one of that, one of those, is eating, um, like root vegetables, because obviously they're in the earth and their roots. So if you think like pumpkin potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, you know those things that are grown and you might have to wash dirt of them, off them. That's such a such a beautiful way to ground you and I assume that would be a beautiful way to balance that root chakra as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, exactly. So yeah, that's basically like a quick rundown on root chakra, but yeah, it's a really powerful space and it's something that most of us need to work on. You know, and if you had, you know, especially when you were a baby, root chakra is all you knew. All you cared about was safe, safe held food. You know I have a shelter, I'm okay. You know I'm physically safe. There's no threat to my life. That is all you care about on a primal level.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, if you had any kind of you know, any kind of unstable upbringing, any times that you did not feel safe around a certain adult figure or around school or whatever it is, then root chakra is definitely a place for your healing. You know, to create a sense of safety within yourself and you know you can do that barefoot on the ground, is great. You know giving, working on your relationship with yourself, holding yourself, using affirmations as well I am safe, I am secure, I am enough, I am okay. You know I'm healthy. You know root chakra really is.
Speaker 2:You know it's the key to really everything else. You've got to have that ground and it's often the one that people lose. People go straight up into the spiritual woo-woo stuff. You've got to start with the base, otherwise you'll float off like a helium balloon. You know, you've got to. You've got to ground and pay attention to that as best you can. You know, really focus on it. You know, and you know, if you want a disease-free body, you don't want to age so quickly.
Speaker 2:Root chakra as well. Focus on that. You know, if you are unsafe here or unconnected or disconnected, out of balance in the root chakra, then the body will get sick because you're disconnected from the earth and you will age quickly and the body will go back to the earth faster than it needs to. So, yeah, massive, massive stuff. You know. I would even ask anyone who's listening, no matter what you're doing, just notice if you're clenching your bottom or your tailbone or your pelvis, or even like your vulva and like your vagina, like if you have one right or whatever you got. You know, notice if it's, if it's clenched down there or if the shoulders are hiked or if your jaw is tense. You know, if any of those areas are really like holding tension, relax them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, breathe and soften into them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, breath work is powerful here, with root chakra as well.
Speaker 3:So yeah, God, everyone deserves access to this information, like I just feel like it's so staple. Like you know, people have illness or mental health or whatever all these issues, and they're prescribed all these medications. And it's like what if everyone had access to this information and this knowledge that perhaps they just need to look at their safety and security, like how they're connecting to the earth, and just imagine the flow on impact that will like create in the world. So, so powerful.
Speaker 2:yeah yeah, it's beautiful, it's natural, it's so, so natural. And for anyone who's a bit of a skeptic and you're like energetic body, whatever, you know, if you're like that, that's totally fine. But what's interesting? When the chakra system was introduced to the Western world, which was around the 20th century, you know scientific stuff was on a roll and you know even more and more as we get into you know the year we're in.
Speaker 2:What has been discovered is a lot of the nerve complexes and the glands align spot on with the chakras and more than that, the glands. That, and the nerves, their function, aligns with what the chakra is about, right, so, for example, root chakra is right where pedendal nerve is. For example, root chakra is right where pedendal nerve is. Now, this nerve is about safety.
Speaker 2:So if you clench your bottom, if you're, you know if you are being chased by a lion, right, fight or flight, you will clench your bottom. This sends a signal into your brain that you're unsafe. Run, get away. You know physical safety is at risk, right, if you clench your bottom at any time, it sends this signal up to your brain that you're unsafe and whether it's a lion or a truck about to hit you or a deadline at work. It's the same response. So this is root chakra. This is the whole thing. So what's amazing is that, you know, before we had any kind of modern science, people knew that this space was so important. So even if you're going chakras, whatever, whatever, like I don't, believe in that Pedendal nerve.
Speaker 2:You have to believe in. That's part of your body and you can go and look at a picture of that and where it runs right now. Its purpose is safety and security and it runs right into root chakra. So whatever you want to play with, that's fine. The practices are the same Relax your bottom, soften, practice relaxing and coming back into safety. You know, if you need to run from a lion, obviously this is a great response. Use it, it'll get you out of danger. It's adrenaline, but most of the time you don't need it. So relax, feed on the earth, chill, chill out, have some good food from the earth and stay connected yeah, wow, oh, I love this.
Speaker 3:should we move into the held practice that we have? Yes, please, together. So for each of the chakras, we're gonna share a number of journal prompts for you to explore in your own time, so we'll list them in the show notes below, but they are around three themes for this one. The first one is safety and security. How safe and secure do I feel in my life right now? Are there areas where I feel unstable or unsupported?
Speaker 3:The second theme is connection to the earth. How connected do I feel to the physical world around me? Do I spend enough time grounding myself and, if not, what activities could help me reconnect with nature or my surroundings? And the third theme is self-worth and belonging. Do I feel a sense of belonging in my community, family or environment? In what ways do I honour my worth and my right to exist in this world? How can I strengthen my connection to my own value? So, take some time to sit down outside with your feet on the earth and answer those in your journal and, of course, do those practices that Maddie suggested as well and start balancing that root chakra and getting it to a place that then you can build upon all the others that we're going to explore moving forwards.
Speaker 2:That was beautiful. Thank you for those prompts. Will you write them in?
Speaker 3:the show notes as well. Yes, they will be in the show notes so everyone can go and do those in their own time. But thank you so much, everyone, for tuning into this episode. Please share it with a family friend, loved one, because, as we said, everyone deserves access to this information and it can really have profound effects on people's entire life and wellbeing. So please share it on, share it to your stories. We are so grateful that you tuned in and we will see you next episode, which will be sacral chakra, chakra, chakra, chakra. She's got it. It will be sacral right it? Will be sacral, we'll be getting into that pelvis.
Speaker 2:Yes, girl, so good.
Speaker 3:All right. Thank you so much for teaching us Maddie. You're so amazing and we are so grateful for you.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you for listening. I love sharing this information because it's so beautiful. So yeah, it's so beautiful, so yeah, it's great. Thank you so much for joining this episode, magical human. I hope you enjoyed it again. If you'd like to do some of these chakra practices with me, jump over to patreon and we'll go through them together. Thank you for your presence. I appreciate you and I wish you a wonderful rest of your day, love.