Unlocking, Balancing, and Strengthening
The Fire Center of Your Being
Kundalini Yoga for the solar plexus is about unlocking, balancing, and strengthening the very fire at the core of your existence. This center is also known as the Manipura Chakra in yogic tradition. It is the seat of your personal power, your ambition, your courage, your will, and your ability to act in the world.
Without a clear and strong solar plexus, life becomes a repetitive cycle of meaningless actions. You may find yourself working day in and day out but not moving forward in life. The fire of this chakra gives direction, clarity, and the courage to face challenges. When it awakens, your career, wealth, ambitions, and prosperity fall into alignment.
In this teaching, I will take you step by step:
- First, you will understand the signs and symptoms of solar plexus blockages.
- Next, you will learn how these blockages affect your body, mind, and energy.
- Finally, I will share two powerful techniques to release trauma, strengthen your diaphragm, and awaken your core purpose.
By the end, you will not only understand the solar plexus, you will feel it moving, breathing, and guiding your destiny.
Locating the Solar Plexus
The solar plexus chakra is situated in the diaphragm region, just below your ribcage, around the upper abdomen. Place your hand on this region now. Press lightly and concentrate. You may feel a subtle throbbing or vibration. That is your solar plexus responding.
Why does this response happen? Because it is the center of your being. When the center is strong, the whole wheel of life moves smoothly. When the center is blocked, the wheel wobbles and falls.
This chakra controls the fire element. Imagine a flame inside your belly. If the flame is weak, you lack drive. If it is chaotic, you experience anger, indigestion, and restlessness. If it is balanced, your life purpose shines through clearly.
Why the Solar Plexus Is Crucial
The solar plexus connects directly to your life purpose. If this center is weak or blocked, you will face stagnation in:
- Career growth
- Financial prosperity
- Professional life
- Ambition and motivation
- Clarity of purpose
You may feel that you are working without results, investing energy without rewards, or stuck in the same patterns year after year. This is because your core is not aligned.
Without purpose, you are simply running in circles — employed in jobs, attending to endless tasks, or remaining busy in business, yet not fulfilling your soul’s calling. Life then becomes a 9-to-5 routine with no meaning.
If you are facing such problems, you must awaken your solar plexus.
Problems Caused by Solar Plexus Blockages
When your solar plexus is blocked, a chain reaction begins in your physical and mental systems. Let us go deeper into these problems.
1. Anger and Emotional Volatility
Trauma is stored in the diaphragm. The solar plexus becomes a container of anger, frustration, and unresolved emotions. You may find yourself snapping at others, losing patience, or experiencing inner rage without reason.
2. Digestive and Organ Issues
This chakra governs the liver, pancreas, stomach, and digestive fire. When blocked, you may experience acidity, liver problems, indigestion, bloating, or even diabetes.
3. Breathing Difficulties
The diaphragm is supposed to move with each breath, but when blocked, breathing becomes shallow. This is not merely physical but energetic. The breath is life, and when the diaphragm locks, you feel suffocated not only in lungs but in life itself.
4. Lack of Motivation
Without an active solar plexus, even simple tasks feel overwhelming. You procrastinate, lack discipline, and avoid responsibilities. The flame that drives you forward has been extinguished.
5. Career Stagnation and Financial Struggles
Professionally, a blocked solar plexus means being stuck in jobs without promotion, businesses without growth, and investments without returns.
6. Loss of Life Purpose
Above all, this chakra is tied to your purpose. Without its activation, you cannot connect to your ikigai — your reason for living.
The Psychological Dimension
From a psychological view, the solar plexus represents the sense of self. It governs confidence, autonomy, and self-worth.
When blocked:
- You doubt yourself.
- You seek external validation.
- You feel small in front of others.
- You fear taking risks or pursuing dreams.
When awakened:
- You radiate confidence.
- You make decisions with clarity.
- You take bold actions aligned with your soul.
- You live with courage and passion.
Two-Step Solar Plexus Healing
To heal the solar plexus, you need two complementary processes:
- Releasing trauma and stuck emotions.
- Strengthening the core through physical and energetic discipline.
Together, these practices free the blocked energy and direct it toward your life purpose.
Technique 1: Releasing Trauma and Anger
The first practice focuses on removing the trauma stored in your diaphragm.
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Sit or lie down comfortably. Relax your body.
- Place your fingers on the triangular depression at the base of the sternum — just below the ribcage.
- Press gently into this point. As you press, exhale deeply with sound: “Oooooohhh…” Allow the vibration of your sound to release the energy.
- Move your fingers across the ribcage, pressing different points one by one. Each time, exhale with sound.
- Continue pressing and releasing until you feel a shift.
What Happens During Release?
- Tears may flow spontaneously.
- You may feel trembling or shaking.
- Old emotions may surface.
Do not resist. These are signs that blockages are leaving your system. Once released, a deep sense of relief follows.
This practice is especially powerful for those carrying suppressed anger or childhood trauma. The diaphragm is a storage chamber of all unexpressed emotions. Through pressing and sound release, the chamber is opened, and the toxins are expelled.
Technique 2: The Plank for Strengthening the Core
Once trauma is released, the second step is strengthening the core. The plank pose is the most powerful Kundalini yoga technique for activating and stabilizing the solar plexus.
Steps for the Plank Pose
- Begin by lying face-down on the ground.
- Place palms under your shoulders.
- Position your toes firmly on the floor. Lock your toes, ankles, knees, and thighs.
- Engage your body. Slowly lift your legs, buttocks, and chest, until your body forms a straight line.
- Keep your spine straight and gaze forward.
- Focus attention on your third eye while practicing belly breathing.
Duration
- Beginners: 10–15 seconds.
- Gradual progression: Increase by one second each day.
- Advanced: Hold for one to five minutes.
Relaxation
After holding, release slowly and rest in Child’s Pose for deep relaxation.
Benefits of Plank
- Strengthens diaphragm and core muscles.
- Activates solar plexus fire.
- Boosts dopamine, the chemical of achievement.
- Creates motivation and confidence.
- Brings clarity about life purpose.
Plank is not just physical exercise. It is a spiritual tool. When you achieve this pose daily, your brain rewards you with dopamine, a sense of achievement, and joy. This reward is deeply tied to the solar plexus.
Daily Solar Plexus Routine
For true transformation, consistency is essential.
- Practice trauma release (pressing and sound exhalation) daily.
- Follow with plank to strengthen the core.
- Begin with short durations, then increase gradually.
- Practice on an empty stomach in the morning after bowel clearance.
- Continue for at least six months.
This routine will realign your career, restore your ambition, and connect you to your life purpose.
Advanced Insights: The Fire Element
The solar plexus chakra corresponds to the fire element (Agni). Fire transforms raw material into energy. In the body, this is your digestive fire, metabolic energy, and willpower.
When weak, the fire cannot burn obstacles. You feel cold, lazy, unmotivated.
When excessive, the fire burns uncontrollably, causing anger, ulcers, and restlessness.
When balanced, the fire transforms food into energy, ambition into success, and dreams into reality.
Through breath, pressing, and plank, you balance this fire.
The Spiritual Symbolism
In yogic texts, the solar plexus chakra is depicted as a ten-petaled lotus with a radiant yellow color. Yellow is the color of clarity, brightness, and sunshine. A strong solar plexus makes you shine in the world like the sun.
It is also the seat of the “inner warrior.” When balanced, you live with courage, face challenges, and embrace your destiny without fear.
Integrating Purpose and Prosperity
When your solar plexus is unlocked:
- You gain clarity about your path.
- Work becomes effortless and aligned.
- Wealth flows naturally as an extension of your purpose.
- You feel energized and confident daily.
Without this awakening, life feels like pushing a boulder uphill. With it, life becomes a river flowing in alignment with destiny.
Final Words: Claiming Your Power
The solar plexus is the fire of your being. If blocked, it traps anger, trauma, and confusion. If awakened, it fuels clarity, power, and prosperity.
Through the two practices of trauma release and plank strengthening, you reclaim your fire. Daily practice will bring not only health and vitality but also courage, purpose, and prosperity.
If you do this consistently, you will no longer wander aimlessly. You will know your ikigai. You will walk a path of strength, clarity, and joy.
Plank each morning, release trauma each day, and allow your solar plexus to shine like the sun. Then your life becomes a celebration of purpose and power.
