Adhi Mudra: fostering presence, stability, and calm
Adhi Mudra is a wonderful mudra to practice anytime, but especially to connect to the light side of Taurus energy or during Taurus season. Taurus energy invites you to be present. It reminds you to take the time to notice how beautiful your life already is in big and small ways. Let presence show you through this hand shape and these tools to support its intention!
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🫶🏻MUDRA: Adhi Mudra
Benefits of Adhi Mudra:
stillness
presence
steadiness
soothes anxiety
calm
stability
strength
grounding
connection to muladhara or root chakra
connection to Earth element
Why practice Adhi Mudra:
Adhi mudra invites in stillness, presence, and steadiness. It trades anxiety in for calm, stability, and strength. It is grounding and connects you to your muldahara, or root chakra, and the earth element.
How to practice Adhi Mudra:
Bring your thumbs into the center of your palms. Gently hug your fingers around your thumbs to make soft fists with both hands. Rest your hands, with palms facing downward, on your knees or legs comfortably. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
🧘🏻♀️MEDITATION: Presence + Stillness
WHY:
To welcome being in the present moment
PLACE:
Find any comfortable seat, add support under your sit bones if you’d like.
MUDRA:
Find Adhi Mudra (above) by bringing your thumbs into the center of your palms. Gently hug your fingers around your thumb to make soft fists with both hands. Rest your hands, with palms facing downward, on your knees or thighs. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
PRANAYAMA:
Gather your awareness to your breath. Breathe in and out through your nose if a available today. Each inhale is full and each exhale is complete. Begin to feel the still places between the inhales and exhales. Be in the stillness for as long as is comfortable before welcoming the next inhale or exhale. Try to really be present in the stillness as you continue for 3-5 minutes.
TO END:
Release your hand shape and control of your breath and pause to reflect.
✨MANTRA:
I call all of myself into the present moment
Wishing you calm strength and a happy root chakra!
