Root Chakra Essential Oils to Balance the First Chakra

Muladhara—the first, root, or base—chakra connects you to nature and the earth and relates to physical, safety, security, and survival needs. The best root chakra essential oils are grounding, strengthening, and centering.

A balanced first chakra lets you enjoy physical ease, security, and prosperity, according to Llewellyn's Complete Book of Chakras. You are grounded in reality and common sense, energetic, reliable, motivated, adventurous, in control of bodily desires, and have the ability to manifest what you need and remain calm and in the moment.

A deficient root chakra makes your prone to issues such as anxiety, lack of focus, passivity, and poor boundaries. An excessive root chakra inclines you to greed, hoarding, workaholism, and rigid boundaries.

Root Chakra Essential Oils

Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques suggests the best essential oils for root chakra balance:

• Cedarwood grounds and connects you with earth energy.
• Frankincense grounds and promotes a sense of security.
• Myrrh grounds, strengthens, and revitalizes.
• Oakmoss grounds and increases your sense of prosperity and security.
• Patchouli grounds and strengthens. Helpful for people who overthink.
• Rosewood grounds and calms.
• Sandalwood grounds, comforts, and strengthens a sense of being.
• Vetiver grounds, calms, and protects. Promotes strength and a deep sense of belonging.

The book includes other essential oils and their effects on muladhara, common root chakra imbalances with suggested balancing oils, and symptoms of congested energy with suggested oils. I recommend this book for the most comprehensive suggestions about using essential oils to balance the chakras.

Root Chakra Essential Oil Blends

Here's a sampling of blends of essential oils for root chakra balance from Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques.

• Mists: To make a mist, drop essential oils into a 4-ounce dark-color mister bottle. Fill with distilled water. Shake well before each use. To use, spray around the chakra area or around your body in general. Avoid eyes and other sensitive areas.
• Anointing oils: To make an anointing oil, blend oils and store in a small dark-color glass bottle with a cap. To use, apply 2 to 3 drops around the chakra.

To integrate body and spirit:

Mist

• 6 drops cedarwood essential oil
• 2 drops sandalwood essential oil
• 2 drops frankincense essential oil
• 4 ounces (1/2 cup) distilled water

Anointing Oil

• 1 drop cedarwood essential oil
• 1 drop sandalwood essential oil
• 1 drop frankincense essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba oil

To increase basic trust in the universe’s goodness:

Mist

• 2 drops sandalwood essential oil
• 8 drops frankincense essential oil
• 4 ounces distilled water

Anointing Oil

• 1 drop sandalwood essential oil
• 2 drops frankincense essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba oil

To rejuvenate body and mind:

Mist

• 6 drops grapefruit essential oil
• 3 drops peppermint essential oil
• 1 drop pine essential oil
• 4 ounces distilled water

Anointing Oil

• 1 drop grapefruit essential oil
• 1 drop peppermint essential oil
• 1 drop pine essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba oil

More First Chakra Anointing Blends

Balancing Anointing Blend

• 1 tablespoon jojoba or olive oil
• 1 drop lime essential oil to ground and rejuvenate
• 1 drop peppermint essential oil to promote vitality and invigorate
• 1 drop tea tree essential oil to strengthen and energize

Source: Aromatherapy Anointing Oils

Stimulating Anointing Blend

• 10 ml (2 teaspoons) corn oil
• 12 drops patchouli essential oil
• 6 drops red spikenard essential oil
• 5 drops vetiver essential oil

Use this blend to anoint the base chakra. If you want a full massage, halve the amount of essential oils in the blend.

Source: Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice (The book's suggested oils for the base chakra are galangal, massoia bark, patchouli, red spikenard, vetiver, and white lotus.)

Grounding First Chakra Blends

Grounding Diffuser Blend

• 2 drops sandalwood essential oil
• 2 drops frankincense essential oil
• 2 drops ylang ylang essential oil

Grounding Bath

• 6 drops sandalwood essential oil
• 6 drops frankincense essential oil
• 3 drops ylang ylang essential oil
• 1 tablespoon carrier oil

Combine oils. Stir the blend into a warm bath.

Source: Essential Oils for Emotional Wellbeing (This book suggests benzoin, clematis, frankincense, myrrh, patchouli, rosemary, sandalwood, and ylang ylang for the first chakra.)

Balancing Blend

Drop these essential oils into a 2-ounce dark-color bottle:

• 3 drops vetiver essential oil
• 2 drops frankincense essential oil
• 2 drops patchouli essential oil
• 3 drops geranium essential oil
• 2 drops ylang ylang essential oil

Fill the remainder of bottle with carrier oil.

Suggested uses: Inhale the aroma or apply a little of the blend to pulse points or soles of the feet.

Source: April Kurtyka, IAC. "Aromatherapy for Chakra Balancing." NAHA Aromatherapy Journal, Summer 2014.2, p. 14.

Further Reading

Chakras: Energy Centers of Transformation by Harish Johari, an Indian author who was a Tantric scholar. 

Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith

Vibrational Healing Through the Chakras by Joy Gardner covers color therapy, sound therapy, and crystals in addition to essential oils. (Bookshop | Amazon)

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