A Mudra for the Fall Equinox: Adhara Mudra for rooting into your worthiness, opening to receiving, and embodying gratitude as the seasons turn

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Sep 15

Trust your worthiness and let yourself receive.

Adhara Mudra is a gesture of openness, trust, and deep support. Your hands connect in front of your belly and your forearms rest against your body, so support becomes something you can feel from your own body. It supports moments when you are ready to pause, soften, and let yourself be held, within yourself and by the world around you.

Adhara Mudra connects you to your Manipura, your center of personal power, and to the fire element. It supports your digestion, the way your body takes in what nourishes you and alchemizes the rest. It releases tension from your back and supports the health of your kidneys and adrenal glands, tucked up under your back lower ribs. From that steady center, it helps you root into your worthiness and build the self-esteem to give and receive with confidence.

The Fall Equinox is a threshold between seasons, a moment of pause as we move from Virgo to Libra Season, from grounded Earth to airy balance. From summer to fall. You can feel that shift in this shape. Virgo lives in your belly, where your hands rest. Libra lives in your back, where this mudra softens what you have been holding on to. It is a time to release tension, recalibrate your nervous system, and receive the abundance you have been working to cultivate all year long. Adhara Mudra supports you in working with this energy fully, helping you soften without losing your roots, open to all you have harvested, and trust that you are deeply deserving of it all.

Practice this mudra anytime you want to feel held, supported, and at ease in your body.

Align with the energy of worthiness and receiving through this mudra and the practices that accompany it.

Check out ways to practice mudras live with our empowering yoga community on our live class schedule! And if you are looking for deeper support this season, our Fall Equinox Workbook is a beautiful companion for this practice, also available in our membership content library alongside all of our seasonal and lunar workbooks.

Celebrating the Spring Equinox this week in your part of the world? Our Spring Equinox Workbook is a beautiful companion for this season of openness, nourishment, and blooming. You are seen too. 🌷

🫶🏻 MUDRA: Adhara Mudra

Benefits of Adhara Mudra:

opens you to receiving
anchors you in your worthiness
invites gratitude into your body
cultivates openness and abundance
balances giving and receiving
builds your self-esteem
helps you feel supported and at ease in your body
supports your digestion
releases tension from your back
supports the health of your kidneys and adrenal glands
supports your Manipura (solar plexus chakra) — your center of personal power
connects to the fire element

Why practice Adhara Mudra:
Practice Adhara Mudra to balance giving and receiving as you anchor in your worthiness and self-esteem. As the seasons turn, it invites you to pause, soften, and let yourself receive the abundance you have been cultivating all year long.

How to practice Adhara Mudra:
Find any comfortable seat. Bring your hands to prayer in front of your belly with your fingers pointing away from you. Keep your wrists and the tips of your fingers together, but open your thumbs and create space between your palms. Extend your thumbs out to the sides. Rest your forearms against your body as you soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️ MEDITATION: Embodied Gratitude + Abundance

WHY:
Practice this meditation to circulate gratitude and abundance through your body with your mudra and your breath. Each inhale gathers in what you have harvested. Each exhale offers gratitude back out. Let receiving and giving find their own rhythm in you.

PLACE:
Gently come to a comfortable seat on the floor or a pillow, cushion, or chair. Anchor both sit bones evenly and align your shoulders over your hips.

MUDRA:
Invitation to find Adhara Mudra. Bring your hands to prayer in front of your belly with your fingers pointing away from you. Keep your wrists and the tips of your fingers together, but open your thumbs and create space between your palms. Extend your thumbs out to the sides. Rest your forearms against your body as you soften your shoulders and align your spine.

DRISHTI:
Perhaps soften or close your eyes if that feels safe and comfortable.

PRANAYAMA:
Practice long, deep diaphragmatic breaths through your nose. Allow your belly to fill on each inhale and draw back toward your spine on each exhale. With each inhale, imagine harvesting abundance. With each exhale, offer gratitude back out for all of that abundance. Notice where you feel gratitude and abundance in your body. What senses are noticing these things?

SUGGESTED TIMING:
1-3 minutes

TO END:
Let your breath return to its natural rhythm and release your hand shape. Take some time in stillness to stay with any sensation you feel in your physical body.