The Solar Plexus in physical terms is the Celiac plexus, a complex bundle of nerves located in your abdomen.

“It receives both parasympathetic (rest/digest) and sympathetic (flight or flight) inputs from the vagus and splanchnic nerves.

The function of the celiac plexus is to transmit visceral sensory impulses (like pain or reflexes). . . It increases gland secretion and promotes peristalsis and digestion with its parasympathetic division. The sympathetic division inhibits peristalsis, constricts blood vessels and redirects blood to skeletal muscles.” says ken hub.

It’s next to the stomach and the diaphram, so it makes sense why it hurts to get punched in the stomach and why you’d get the wind knocked out of you.

These nerves are part of the Gut Brain, being able to listen to what your gut is saying to you.

Solar Plexus Chakra

There is an energetic center in the same spot. In Quantum Shiatsu I learned that it is related with SELF DEFINITION and the right is to act and react. It is where we set boundaries using our intuition. Our gut knowledge. Strengthening and clearing this energy center is very helpful in moving through life.

Working to strengthen your core is a great way to support your solar plexus. Years ago a took a chakra class with Psalm Isadora and this was the routine she gave us.
Imagining a sun in your solar plexus filling up your auric field. I also like to sit in the sun while I do this.
Stones, Herbs, Essential oils and sound can be used to help balance your solar plexus.
- Sound. Tone for solar plexus is “OH”, as in “go”. This frequency is responsible for miracles and dramatic changes in people. Tones in this frequency help pain and anxiety relief, weight loss, and rewiring of your brain’s neural pathways. The 528 Hz frequency is associated with the solar chakra.

This technique I learned in Massage School in 2001. I’ve used regularly and it is a very helpful practice. It comes from Damaris Jarboux from The Center Place in Boulder.

Solar Plexus Bowl Practice

“This practice can be done in any position, but it is a good practice ot do in bed before going to sleep at night or getting up in the morning It takes 10 minutes at first.

Resting your mind in center, become aware of your solar plexus - as if you were witnessing it from center.
As you exhale, imagine you were sending your breath there.
Feel the area: notice the quality, sensation or image that is there.
Lightly place your hands on your solar plexus with your fingertips in a straight line from your navel to the xyphoid (at the bottom of your breast bone), right hand on top.Your thumbs are not sued except as a vent. your fingertips are just lightly touching your body (wearing clothes is fine).
Imagine a bowl inside your solar plexus area facing up; the surface of your skin is the top of the bowl.
Let the energy of your fingertips sink down into the area like they were sinking into the bottom of the bowl.
Watch (from your place of rest in the center) and feel your willingness to allow this area of your body to soften, relax and begin to allow it to open like the eye of a camera. Tell your willingness to let go of the habit of over protecting with unnecessary guarding and shielding. You are filtering your own light out by doing that. Effort/work (pushing your fingers way in) won’t help, it will only close tighter. Soften and open.
You will start to feel a physical response as your body begins to let go of your unconscious stress response and sink slowly into relaxation response.
Keeping your hands in place, imagine (see it or just think it) an egg of light all around you, like a shell of light at the edge of your personal field, at least 3 feet out. It is a permeable shell that filters out what you don’t need and brings in what you do need. (This is not about your personal wants and desires, but about your soul’s needs.) See and feel it behind you, in front, to the sides, above and below you. Like a large egg of white/golden light surrounding and protecting your body. This is your personal energy cocoon, this field is real, and it gets stronger every time you think of it.
Now, remember the egg of light that is your real filter, proceed with willingness to break up the false filter that you’re holding in your solar plexus. Move your hands so that the energy from your fingertips rest on either side at the base of your rib cage, along the edge of the bowl. Again, let the energy from your fingertips sink in like the fingers were growing longer and sliding down the sides of the bowl to the bottom, meeting in the middle. They are “breaking up” the filter pattern/habit in the part of the bowl nearest your chest.
Move your hands so your fingertips are on each side, directly below your nipples and below your rib cage along the edge of the bowl. Again, let your “energy fingers” sink down the sids of the bowl, breaking up the filter/pattern at the part of the bowl to your sides Let yourself really feel the image and imagine this happening.
Move your hands around the bowl so your index fingers meet in your navel and your fingertips fan out on either side of your navel. again, let you fingers grow and sink down the sides of the bowl to the bottom, breaking up the pattern of over-protection at the area of the bowl closest to the navel. Note: There is not one way to do this, just “walk your hands (separately or together) around the bowl, breaking up the pattern. Stay in willingness, not effort.
Come back to the midline (first position) again with fingertips in a straight line, navel to xyphoid. Sink in again.
When you’re ready, take a deep breath in and as you exhale, let your mind lead your breath down and out your solar plexus. Keep doing this at you draw your hands off your body - drawing those old patterns of energy out. Be glad to let it go. Each time your exhale, fill your solar plexus with breath and light, and keep drawing your hands from your solar plexus bowl out. You can even circle your hands out clockwise.

There is nothing “bad” leaving during this practice, just an old habit of protection that has been subconsciously keeping your body in stress response and weakening your constitution to some degree, because it was filter your own light from full descent into your physical body. This is not just the cauldron/chakra that we are engaged with, it is a much bigger center, the only “eye” of its kind in your body. Some version of this eye and egg practice was part of the esoteric tradition of every indigenous culture that survived; we have forgotten its importance. Remember, once you have developed this process, it is faster and you can do it with your mind. In Chi Kung we understand the mind can lead the chi (energy) and also the chi (energy) can lead the mind. If something happens to you that is a shock or trauma, this eye will probably close - it is supposed to. But it will open soon as things settle; if you’re doing the practice, it won’t remain stuck closed,

If you do this daily (for 10 minutes) or 2 times daily, it will entrain your energy-body to respond quicker and deeper each time. The egg (the real filter) will get stronger and your constitution (elements, organs, meridians) will strengthen. Gradually, your “Solar Plexus Eye” will be more and more open until it functions at 80-100% all the time instead of 0-30% like most people. Your whole life will feel and be different! I guarantee it - if you do it, because I have developed this practice for 15 years with people both in treatment and teaching them to do it themselves - I can always tell when someone is doing the practice. It is reflected in body, emotions, thoughts, work relationships - their whole life.

When you have fully embodied this and see it in your life - teach it to someone else. If you know receptive teenager pass it along. It will be an invaluable tool for life!” ~ Damaris Jarboux