How to Create a Sacred Space at Home
A sacred space is a purified energetic space that helps to protect you, empower you, raise your vibration, anchor and center you. Simply put, it’s energetic support for your sacred work or spiritual practice, making things easier, smoother and more successful.
Depending on how the space is created, it can help facilitate powerful healing, deepen your meditative state, nourish your soul, and support you or your client in releasing and healing on a deeper level. It’s really an entry point for the task at hand.
Through simple practices and meaningful elements, you can create a special place that feels grounding, inspiring, and aligned. Over time, this space can become your own sanctuary, a place to rest, reflect, and hold sacred space for yourself, away from the noise and chaos of the outside world.
In this post, I share practical tips to setting up a sacred space at home that not only looks good, but truly feels good—a space that supports your connection, your creativity, and your deeper sense of meaning.
How to Create Your Sacred Space
A sacred space isn’t about perfection or having the “right” setup. What’s most important is intentionally creating a place that supports your spiritual practice or goals, helps you reconnect with your inner world, and brings a sense of calm, balance, and serenity into your day.
Here are important tips when setting up your sacred space at home:
Clarifying Your Intentions
Before creating a sacred space, we want to clarify why we’re creating it to begin with.
This will help you understand what you may need to do, or what you don’t, as well as where the space should be located and where it may not be as favourable.
Where to Set Up Your Space
Your own sacred space can be an entire room, a corner, or a small quiet space.
If you’re creating this space to meditate, it's best to avoid setting it up in the bedroom.
Meditating in the same place is powerful. Especially if you’re doing guided meditations or have an advanced practice. However, when we meditate in the same place repeatedly eventually a pillar of light is formed where we sit. This can be helpful because when we return to that space, we’re able to drop into a meditative state more quickly than we would otherwise.
On the other hand when this pillar of light builds in a bedroom (especially close to the bed), it can be overstimulating and disturb one’s sleep (speaking from previous experience). I have found this to be true even with mantra practices. Best to avoid the bedroom for this one. Other rooms in the house are ok. In itself, the pillar of light is a sacred space.
Creating the Physical Foundation of Your Sacred Space
Once you've picked the perfect spot, start by clearing out anything unnecessary. Keeping your space clutter-free helps shift the energy and creates room for stillness and quiet reflection.
From there, you can add a few meaningful elements like:
natural light
comfortable seating (e.g. yoga mat, meditation cushion)
candles, crystals, or plants
a cozy throw or stones
a small altar for what feels meaningful to you (though is not necessary)
essential oils or soft sounds for calm and mindfulness
personal items that spark joy or inspiration
Most importantly, define what “sacred” means to you. Let it be a creative process guided by what truly supports you.
Maintaining and Raising the Energy of Your Sacred Space
Once you’ve set up your sacred space, it’s important to return to it regularly and tend to its energy so it continues to feel supportive over time.
Step 1: Energetically Purify the Space
You always want to energetically purify your space, and you know, while we’re at it—having the space physically clean is always good too.
You can do this through a few different methods, but here are some suggestions:
Open the windows and let the fresh air and sunlight in.
This is great to do anyways… 20 minutes of this a day can really clean up a room.
If you have south facing windows that open - even better! The south energy will powerfully clean up your space. However don’t leave them open all day, while the south energy is a powerful cleanser too much of it can drain out supportive energies in the home (prosperity, health-giving energies, etc.).
Incense can be a powerful cleanser.
If you like it, make sure you open the windows. If you’re open to it, invoking or praying for help can make this technique far more powerful.
After you’ve connected with whoever is important to you, asking for the incense to clear out all ‘negative, incorrect and harmful energies’ is a great way to get a space clean. Frankincense, Sandalwood, Lavender or blessed incense from a temple or church are all great ways to purify a space.
Listening to the Om mantra.
What I’m a big fan of right now is listening to the om mantra at the start of my day. It cleans my office where I work and helps to purify me while I’m at it. Find an om track that you like. Invoke or pray for assistance and form the intent ‘that the energy of this Om mantra will clean me and my space of all negative, incorrect or harmful energies’. I encourage you to chant with the Om mantra for as long as you like. At least a few minutes or more (it doesn’t hurt to go longer if it feels right). The effect of the Om mantra is two-fold, on one hand it’ll purify you and your space, on the other hand it will help raise the vibration. This option helps to create a sacred space within and without.
These aren’t the only ways by any means. But they’re the ones that I’ve worked with myself and can verify. If you feel your space is very energetically dirty (which can easily happen over time when facilitating regular healing sessions, therapy sessions, etc.) You can check out this PDF ‘6 tips for energetically cleaning your home and office’ for more suggestions.
It’s a good idea to focus on one of these things every time you return to your space. Don’t assume that your space is going to stay energetically clean after doing this. Getting into the habit of regularly cleaning your sacred space is important.
Step 2: Raise the Vibration of Your Sacred Space
After cleansing the space, we want to think about raising the vibration. Let’s first talk about what that actually means. I think we hear this term a lot and I just wanted to break it down a bit. Energetically speaking, there are many different energies that exist, and each of them has their own frequency.
For example, anger has a lower frequency (no offence anger - you definitely have your place), while the energy that comes from prayers, mantras, etc. is higher. Clairvoyantly the former looks darker - denser, the latter is clear, bright.
All day, every day we walk through all sorts of energies, but when it comes to facilitating healing sessions, meditating, doing readings etc., it’s VERY useful to be doing all this in higher frequencies or vibrations.
The reason being is it helps to open up the upper chakras, which is tremendously important for all these activities, it helps to raise the vibration of one’s aura making healings, readings, meditation, easier. The higher the vibration of the aura, the more refined the particles of the aura are - the more sensitive they are to bringing in healing energy, receiving ‘higher’ information or guidance and so forth. So while great work can still be done without this, it’s very helpful to create a sacred space to facilitate your work.
So, how do we go about doing this? Here are some suggestions:
I always start off my day with prayers or invocations.
Not a day or session goes by without that. I know I’m more effective doing this, not only that, that day is far smoother. I feel that support with me all through the day.
When I’m doing these prayers or invocations first and foremost I’m always offering my gratitude for all the blessings, known or unknown to me. I give thanks for the divine guidance, help and protection. I ask for support in whatever way I need.
It changes day-to-day, but I always start off in a space of gratitude. I would encourage you to not get rigid with this, thinking there is a right way, or certain words to say. Stay in your heart and be open to receiving. So while I find this a powerful way to change my own energy body, I also observe that the room changes, energy is anchored and it’s a great addition for creating your sacred space.
Taking this one step further, I then set the intention that I’m connected with all those I’ve invoked, and that together we’re in a sacred circle, creating a sacred space.
I imagine that we’re all connected, that we are one. This is a great option for healing work and readings.
Having meaningful objects in your space can be very helpful.
Having sacred objectsor blessed items from a temple, church or perhaps things that were blessed by a teacher is a great way to raise the vibration for your sacred space. That item will naturally radiate its energy into your space. Having prayers, sacred images on the walls is also a great way to anchor this energy.
Tip: place these images and prayers higher than your head to activate the upper chakras for your work. The objects that you have are unique to you. Be open that while you continue on your path, things will change, what you connect with will change, you’ll grow in unexpected ways and it’s ok if you’ve outgrown something you once held in high value.
Creating a Supportive, Sacred Space
Creating a sacred space doesn’t have to be time consuming, nor do you have to get it perfect.
Let it be a ritual to anchor you for your practice or work. As you shift the energy of the space, you too will shift and be ready for what you’re setting out to do. Beginning with cleansing the space will already start to raise the vibration. As you clear out lower, denser energy, more room is naturally made for fresher, healthier energy. Even this step alone will make a difference.
Over time, your space will begin to hold this energy, making it easier to settle in and do your work. You’re not starting from scratch each time. You’re stepping into something that’s already supporting you, eventually it just becomes about maintaining that space.
And from there, you’re ready to begin.
