Muladhara

 Muladhara is the first chakra

Survival

Instinct

Rootedness

Belonging

Earth

Growth

Biology

Nature

like all things, we begin at the beginning with the first chakra Muladhara, this is the base chakra, which is located at the bottom of the spine, the word "Mula." means root and adhara has the meaning of base or support.  This gives us the understanding of the chakra Muladhara, which can mean foundation, as in foundations for a building.

The colour of the chakra Muladhara is attributed to the colour red and red is the first colour of the rainbow to those colour of the spectrum.  Red is the colour of blood, the current life in the space chakra represents the beginning.  Using unharnessed energy, usually body parts are associated with these chakras and the Muladhara chakra is associated with the adrenal glands.

Here we are connected very strongly with the physical earth which is needed to help you open all of your  Chakras.

The base chakra Muladhara has been set to point downwards towards the ground, giving us a required contact that we need with nature.

Within the chakras a symbol of Airavata, king of the elephants who belong to Indra the Earth God, this elephant has been depicted with several trunks, giving us the seven elements for physical life.

There are two deities represented by this chakra.  The first is called Brahma the second is Dakini.

The sound or mantra for the chakra is a lam.

So if you are interested in opening your Muladhara chakra try listening to this great track, i recommend this as it helped me to become more aware of my chakras, which in turn helped me to move through my daily life with more ease.

Parallels have often been drawn, by supporters of the existence of chakras, between the positions and functions of the chakras, and of the considerable organs of the endocrine venture. It is the shakta theory of seven chakra that most people in the West adhere to, either knowingly or unknowingly, largely thanks to a translation of two Indian texts, the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book entitled The Serpent Power. The chakras are placed at differing levels of spiritual subtlety, with Sahasrara at the top being concerned with pure consciousness, and Muladhara at the bottom being concerned with matter, which is seen simply as crudified consciousness.

Meditation in Chakras!
For example, the Dalai Lama recommends the Seven Points of Vairocana in which:
 Also the Thai monk Luang Por Teean taught a (more conservative) form of dynamic meditate, involving the use of the hands and arms during sitting meditation. Albeit, Christian prayer or meditation through the heart, as described in the Philokalia is a methods towards Theosis, which involves acquiring an inner stillness and ignoring the physical senses.

Some argue that the pineal and pituitary glands should be exchanged in their relationship to the Crown and Brow chakras, based on the depiction in Arthur Avalon's book on kundalini called Serpent Power or empirical research. Chakrology is a neologism sometimes employed by Alternative Medicine practitioners or esoteric philosophers for the study of chakras. In Eastern thought, the chakras are thought to be levels of consciousness, and states of the soul, and 'proving' the existence of chakras is asking to 'prove' the existence of a soul.

you even have chakra jewelry to relate to each chakra symbol, as each piece of chakra jewelry holds a relationship to the chakra.

Anahata play a valuable role in digestion, the conversion of food matter into energy for the body.