This is one exercise to stimulate the opening of your root chakra.When you are saying that this is misleading then you dont have much information about chakras as you think you know.

There are 4 different ways into opening chakras that are:

-Meditation/yoga
-Body exercises
-Energy work/crystals
-Hipnosis

Its always good to include some meditation and some body exercises for maximum performance.

I will explain some body exercises and if some Yoga meditation exercises