muladhara

At the base, at the perineum, is muladhara , the "root support," a four-petalled crimson lotus, element earth, seed-syllable Lam .

The climb begins at the bottom, at the foundation of everything above it, and the text names the place for exactly that. Muladhara .

along the path of Kula, and again enters the Muladhara." The ascent is not the end.

From the base up: muladhara with four petals, svadhishthana with six, manipura with ten, anahata with twelve, vishuddha with sixteen, ajna with two, and crowning everything the thousand-petalled sahasrara .

The internal union of Shiva-bindu (at the crown) and Shakti-bindu (at the muladhara ) through the rising kundalini is the practice.

The bhupura - the outermost square gate of the yantra - maps to the muladhara region (the base of the spine).

The Goddess’s navel is the practitioner’s own manipura . The Goddess’s feet are the practitioner’s own muladhara .

…he nine adharas (foundations) of the practitioner’s subtle body - the muladhara , svadhisthana , manipura , anahata , vishuddha , ajna , brahmarandhra , bindu , and the supreme position above the bindu .