From Body Shame to Sacred Ground: Healing the Base Chakra
- Marcelle muse
- May 7
- 4 min read
The body is not a project to perfect. It is the sacred ground of your becoming. In Tantra, we do not bypass the body to reach enlightenment. We descend into it. We root into the soft, fierce soil of flesh, feeling, and form. This is the temple we return to—not in judgment, but in reverence.
To love your body is to reclaim the first gateway of awakening—the base chakra—and all it holds: survival, sexuality, instinct, ancestry, and the longing to belong. It is here that the journey home begins. And it is through loving the body that we begin healing the base chakra.
Healing the Base Chakra: Awakening the Root of Desire and Survival
The base chakra is the first and vital energy center where life force gathers. It’s located at the perineum—between the anus and the genitals—and is the seat of both survival instinct and primal sexual energy.
The chakras reflect the evolutionary journey we’ve undergone as human beings. The first step of this unfolding is simple, yet profound: to accept being in the body. To ground into the Earth. To learn to survive. To come home to the flesh.
When we begin to work with the chakras, we start to see where our energy is dammed—where it cannot move freely. And it is here, at the base, that many blocks begin.
Much of what motivates our daily actions stems from unconscious survival fears—deeply buried patterns inherited through epigenetics and early life experiences. These are not just memories. They are imprints etched into the nervous system, and often go unnoticed, playing out in the background of our relationships and erotic responses.
When the Base Chakra Is Tight or Closed
When the base is contracted—held in tension due to suppressed fears, shame, or unacknowledged desire—the following patterns may show up in sexuality:
For Women
Sexuality becomes survival-based.
Relationships are chosen out of fear: “I can’t survive on my own.”
Sex becomes an obligation, a marital duty, a transactional act—offered to the husband without genuine enjoyment, presence, or arousal.
For Men
Hyper-focus on money, dominance, or power.
Fear-based masculinity: rigid control, aggression, emotional disconnection.
Sex becomes conquest; the energy is predatory, not connected.
For All Genders
Lovemaking becomes goal-oriented and centered on orgasm.
Sexual energy stagnates at the genitals, creating an urgent, almost addictive pull to release.
Pleasure is disconnected from intimacy; the journey is ignored in favor of the “finish line.”
Women may experience overstimulation of the genitals while simultaneously blocking emotional openness.
Men may feel urgency and disconnect from their partner’s experience, often missing presence entirely.
When There’s No Sexual Desire at All
The first and second chakras work together. If there’s no arousal, numbness, or an absence of desire, chances are the emotional flow in the second chakra is blocked. Often, this is due to unresolved or unremembered sexual trauma.
Trauma doesn’t need to be remembered to be real. The body remembers even if the mind does not. When the flow between the base and the sacral chakra is interrupted, we shut down to pleasure and disconnect from sensual vitality.
The Base Chakra as the Seat of Kundalini
Kundalini is our life force—our latent erotic power. She sleeps at the base of the body like a coiled snake. Her awakening is not forced. She rises through awareness and practices that open the subtle body to her movement.
Unconsciousness puts her back to sleep. Presence wakes her.
In Taoist terms, the way we commonly make love—through forceful, contractive orgasm—causes depletion. Men ejaculate and feel tired. Women clench into climax and then collapse. This is a momentary ignition of kundalini, only to have her extinguished again through exhaustion.
In Tantra, we build life force. We soften into lovemaking. We surrender to presence, breath, and sensation. We make love not to discharge energy but to generate it. This is how Kundalini rises—not through force, but through surrender.
To awaken Kundalini, we must address the areas of our lives where we hold contraction, numbness, or fear. Tantric lovemaking then becomes the conscious vessel through which Kundalini ascends, activating and clearing each chakra in her sacred spiral upward.
Loving the Body as a Gateway to Grounded Spirituality
Loving the body isn’t about fixing it—it’s about meeting it. It’s about softening into the perceived imperfections and seeing the sacredness within them. The base chakra cannot truly open if we are at war with the very form it anchors. How can energy flow through a system built on rejection?
When we hate our bodies, we send a signal to life itself: I do not want to be here. The base chakra, whose essence is our right to exist, contracts in response.
Loving the body says instead, I choose to be here. I accept this form. I honor this life.
Whether you identify as a woman, man, or any gendered expression in between or beyond, the message is the same: you are not broken. Your shape, your sex, your scars, and your softness are not obstacles—they are portals.
To make peace with your body is not superficial—it is foundational. It is the reclamation of presence, pleasure, and power. It is how you root your soul in this world and begin to rise.
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