Feel pleasure in your body and trust your power to create.
Anamika Mudra is the gesture of the ring finger. Your hands land near your navel and inspire your awareness to drop down with them to the realm of creative potential that is always within you.
Anamika Mudra connects you to the water element and opens your Svadhisthana (sacral chakra), your center of creation. It activates Apana, your downward-moving current of release, brings circulation into your pelvis, and supports the health of your reproductive and urinary systems. It also restores fluidity to your joints, especially your hips. In Kundalini yoga, the hips are said to be where intention (left femur) and motivation (right femur) meet purpose in your pelvic bowl. The triangle of intention, motivation, and purpose helps you create the life you both want and are meant for.
Anamika helps guide your attention to your ovaries. They connect you to your natural, fluid cycles. They are the part of you that inspires regeneration again and again, reminding you of your ability to heal and to do the same in all ways.
It is a shape for pleasure and comfort in your own body, and for intimacy on your own terms. It helps connect you to the light of Scorpio energy, the healer, the sorceress, and the creatrix. Not the kind of power that gets performed, but the kind that exists underneath, quiet, regenerative, and steadfast. Work with Anamika Mudra anytime you want to feel the healer and the creator in you, and anytime you are ready to let your own healing come from the inside.
The healing you are looking for is not somewhere outside of you. Your body repairs itself with the same energy it creates with, and you get to decide how you use that energy.
Align with the energy of the healer, pleasure, and the creatrix through this mudra and the practices that accompany it.
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🫶🏻 MUDRA: Anamika Mudra
Benefits of Anamika Mudra:
awakens the healer already within you
helps you sense pleasure in your own body
reconnects you to your power to create
builds comfort with your sexuality
supports intimacy on your own terms
helps you release abandonment, addiction, and codependency
reminds you that you are whole from the inside out
restores fluidity in your joints, especially your hips
increases circulation through your pelvis
supports the health of your reproductive and urinary systems
activates Apana vayu, your downward-moving current of energy
opens your Svadhisthana (sacral chakra), your center of creation
connects to the water element
Why practice Anamika Mudra:
Practice Anamika Mudra to connect to the healer in you, to return to pleasure in your body, and to reconnect with your power to create. It is a settling gesture that brings circulation and attention into your pelvis, softens your hips, and reminds you that your wholeness rises from within.
How to practice Anamika Mudra:
Find your comfortable seat. Perhaps on the edge of a bolster, pillow, or folded blanket to balance your pelvis and spine. Bring your hands in front of your solar plexus, just above your navel. Press the tips of your ring fingers together and let your other fingers gently curl in toward your palms and secure them with your thumbs. Soften your shoulders, let your elbows reach slightly away from your ribs, and naturally align your spine.
🧘🏻♀️ MEDITATION: Embodied Healer + Creatrix
WHY:
Practice this meditation to tap into the energy inside of you. It helps you awaken the healer already within you, sense your own capacity and boundaries, and reconnect to your power to create.
PLACE:
Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a bolster or blanket to get your hips a little higher than your knees.
MUDRA:
Invitation to find Anamika Mudra by bringing your hands in front of your solar plexus, just above your navel. Press the tips of your ring fingers together and let your other fingers gently curl in toward your palms and secure them with your thumbs. Soften your shoulders, let your elbows reach slightly away from your ribs, and naturally align your spine.
PRANAYAMA:
Inhale deeply through your nose. Pause, full of breath, for as long as is comfortable. Exhale through your nose when you need to.
MANTRA:
In the pause, repeat HAR silently, as many times as is comfortable for you. With each HAR, gently pump your navel point.
HAR is creative infinity. The creative force that is innately yours to use as you choose. This can be to heal existing parts of you or your life, or to create something new. You get to choose how you use your energy.
DRISHTI:
Soften or close your eyes if that feels safe and comfortable. Gently take your internal awareness to your low belly.
SUGGESTED TIMING:
3-5 minutes.
TO END:
After an exhale, let your breath be natural and release your hands. Notice the energy and potential you created in your own center.
CUSTOMIZE + CARE:
If you are currently creating a human baby, simply breathe naturally in and out through your nose, drop your awareness down into your womb, and mentally be with HAR as many times as is comfortable on each exhale.
✨ MANTRA:
I am the healer and the creatrix of my own life
I hope you trust your innate power to heal and create, and allow yourself to feel pleasure as you do.
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