Sacral Chakra, Shame and Inner Power: A Webinar Breakdown

Before any teaching begins, Divi Chandna asks her live audience to close their eyes and count their breath. Inhale for five, hold for five, exhale for five, and then slow the breath down, and then slow the mind. Only after that does she ask participants to picture someone they know only a little, see that person's divine essence, and send an infinity sign of love from their heart to theirs and back again. This is the third and final webinar in a series she built as preparation for a November retreat on awakening inner power, and it centers on the second chakra, the sacral center, and the way shame quietly blocks the power that lives there. Her core argument is that the mind runs on two thought systems, ego and spirit, and that the difference between them is moment to moment. The ego, in her framing, is any fear-based thought. Spirit is any love-based thought. Shame, she says, is where those fear-based thoughts do the most damage to our capacity to feel powerful.

Why Start With Breath and a Stranger's Face?

The opening exercises are not decoration. Chandna's series moves through the chakras in a deliberate order, and in her own recap she placed safety as the first chakra, empowerment as the third, and this session on the second. The breath count and the send-and-receive exercise set the emotional terms for the hour. Participants were asked to pick someone they knew remotely, not someone close, and to hold that person's image in front of them. The choice of a loose acquaintance matters. It removes the drama of a relationship and asks you to see something more basic: the other person's worth and essence.

Afterward, she invited people to answer in the chat box with where they were writing from and how the exercise felt. Responses came in from Baltimore, Australia and Winnipeg, and the words that kept returning were joy and calm. Chandna picked up on that theme immediately. "There's a joyous theme here," she said on the recording, and then offered the line that frames the whole series: "That's why there's other humans. We're here to send receive love." (Divi Chandna, Webinar 3/3, opening segment)

What Is the Ego, Really, in This Teaching?

Chandna is candid that her ideas about ego and spirit are not things you can hold in your hand. "It's not like the ego is something that I can bite my teeth into," she tells the room, and she admits the notion of spirit is just as hard to grab. Her working definitions are the useful part. The ego, she says, is "the mental habit of identifying," the reflex that names the eyebrow, the eyeliner, the pen on the desk. Spirit is less a habit than a quality of thought. Her shorthand is that the ego is any fear-based thought and spirit is any love-based thought, and that unconditional love belongs to spirit.

She then reaches for a line she calls a great definition: "nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists." (Divi Chandna, Webinar 3/3, around 6:39) Her illustration is the exercise they had just completed. The love one person sends to another is real, she argues, and it would still be real a thousand years from now. The hair, the earrings and the face are not. For a listener new to this framework, the logic is that fear attaches itself to things that can be lost, while love attaches itself to what cannot.

She is also careful not to turn this into a judgment. When she asks participants to rate how well they send and receive love on a scale from one to one hundred, she is explicit that the number is not a grade. "It's not about marking ourselves, but it's just awareness," she says. Answers ranged from the 30s to the 80s, and one participant reported a 60 that Chandna praised as "not bad at all."

How Does the Nucleus Model Explain Your Thoughts?

The most structurally useful image in the session is the nucleus. Chandna describes a central point from which everything else radiates. Either you are connected to spirit at that center or you are not. From there, the thoughts you have, the beliefs you hold, the perceptions you form and the reality you experience all radiate outward. The model is meant to be practical rather than abstract: the question is always which system you are operating from in this moment.

This is also where she addresses childhood. She acknowledges that many people carry pain from early life, and says she did too. But she draws a line between the child's experience and the adult's capacity to choose. An adult, she argues, has a nucleus that can be reconnected, and she says there are "so many tools and techniques" for moving from ego to spirit. The step that makes those tools work is choice. "If we're not exercising that choice," she warns, "we're falling into the ego thought system." Her tone here is playful but firm. She jokes that people will call her at 80 wanting to start, and tells them, "It's never too late ever." (Divi Chandna, Webinar 3/3, around 13:00)

Chandna also names the resistance directly. The part of you that does not want to change, she says, is the ego speaking: "I like being mad." Her answer is not to argue with it but to let each listener decide which system they prefer, joy or grievance. It is a small move, but it reframes the work as an invitation rather than a correction.

Why Does Shame Block Inner Power?

This is where the second chakra comes in. Chandna's argument is that shame is the emotional wall that cuts a person off from their own power, and that the ego runs shame through self-talk, through the statements we repeat in our heads. "Shame, we block that power," she says. (Divi Chandna, Webinar 3/3, around 32:09) The sequence she describes runs from private self-judgment to a feeling of being unable to act fully.

She then turns the lens outward, which is the more uncomfortable part of the session. "We shame others left, right, and center," she says, and asks the room to notice how often that happens. (Divi Chandna, Webinar 3/3, around 24:48) Her point is that shaming others and shaming yourself are the same reflex. Both keep the energy locked in a fear system. Her invitation is to stop shaming, in others and in oneself, and to see what the body does when that stops.

She asks participants to name their shame in the chat, and she is clear about the boundaries. Participants are invited to share what they are ready to share, not to recount a story that would overwhelm them or anyone else. The aim is to bring the material into the open, not to produce a confession. That restraint is worth noting, because the subject can easily become a performance.

Can Forgiveness Be Visualized?

The third part of the teaching is a guided forgiveness practice. Chandna describes visualizing a figure of compassion, naming Mother Mary and Quan Yin as examples, holding the practitioner in a gentle embrace. The instruction is to connect eye to eye with that figure, to let the energy pulsate through the body, and to stay with the sensation rather than analyze it. She frames this as spiritual forgiveness, which she distinguishes from a purely intellectual decision to let go.

The visualization is meant to reach the same heart center as the earlier exercise. Where the send-and-receive practice asked you to love someone you barely know, the forgiveness practice asks you to receive love from a source that does not judge you. Both move the attention from fear toward the nucleus she described earlier. Her warning, in keeping with the rest of the session, is that people will try to do this all at once. She advises starting small and returning to the practice.

How Do You Practice Sending and Receiving Love?

The exercise at the heart of the webinar is simple enough to repeat at home. Sit quietly. Think of someone you know remotely, not someone close. Hold that person's image directly in front of you. Be present to their divine love, divine nature, divine essence and divine worth. Imagine an infinity sign moving from your heart to theirs and then returning to you. Notice what comes back. Chandna asks participants to pay attention to the feeling of both sending and receiving, because for many people receiving is the harder half. One participant, in the chat, said that receiving was not something they did very well, and Chandna treated the admission as useful information rather than a failure.

The practice works best when treated as a daily habit rather than a one-off exercise. Chandna's closing message is that the love we send and receive is the thing she calls real, and therefore the thing that can never be threatened. Whatever the ego says about the rest, that is where she asks people to keep returning.

A note on what this material is and is not. It is a single live class from a teacher who frames her work as spiritual practice, and her claims are teachings to test in your own experience rather than established fact. The exercises are simple and low-risk. Anyone dealing with significant shame, trauma or emotional distress should bring that to a qualified professional alongside any contemplative practice.

Where to go from here

If the session stirred something, the most useful next step is to repeat the breath count and the send-and-receive exercise for a week and notice where you feel resistance. Track the moments when you catch a fear-based thought and name it as ego. Watch for the places where you shame yourself or someone else, and ask what would change if that reflex paused. The retreat Chandna has scheduled for November 14 and 15 is built around the same theme of awakening inner power, and the earlier webinars in the series cover safety and empowerment, the chakras that come before the sacral center. Start with the breath, and let the rest unfold from there.