Angushtha Mudra: find safety in stillness and trust deep listening to reveal inner guidance.

Let stillness become a safe place you can trust.

Angushtha Mudra is a gesture of stillness, deep listening, and gentle renewal. It supports moments when you’re ready to slow down, soften inward, and receive guidance rather than seek it. This mudra helps release tension through the neck and throat, align the cervical spine, and support the throat (vishuddha) chakra — creating space for authentic expression that begins with listening.

These qualities are especially natural and felt during the Winter Solstice, when the world quiets and reflection feels more accessible than action. It’s a time when sensitivity increases, awareness turns inward, and guidance is more easily sensed than spoken. Angushtha Mudra meets you anytime you crave this energy, especially during this seasonal shift, supporting your ability to listen deeply and trust what’s forming beneath the surface.

The shape encourages nervous system settling, supports the thyroid and vocal anatomy, and connects you to your throat chakra and the spacious element of ether. It reminds you that expression doesn’t always begin with words — sometimes it begins by pausing, sensing, and allowing clarity to take shape internally.

Practice this mudra anytime you want to reconnect with stillness, trust what meets you there, and gently receive guidance for your life journey.

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Angushtha

Benefits of Angushtha Mudra:

• stillness

• renewal

• release

• reflection

• reconnection

• sensitivity + deep listening

• receptivity to inner guidance on life journey so you can express that out into the word

• supports the thyroid + vocal anatomy

• enhance expression through speaking + singing

• release tension from the neck + throat

• supports alignment of the cervical spine

• connection to throat (vishuddha) chakra

• connection to the space element

Why practice Angushtha Mudra:

Practice Angushtha Mudra to support stillness, deepen your capacity for listening, and gently reconnect with the inner guidance that becomes clearer when you slow down and soften inward.

How to practice Angushtha Mudra:

From a comfortable seat, extend your thumbs and let your other fingers relax inside of your palms. Bring just the tips of your thumbs to touch each other in front of your body comfortably. Hold this with your forearms parallel to the earth and your elbows relaxed. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Be Still + Trust

WHY:

Practice this meditation to learn how to sit safely in stillness, trust what you sense and receive, and allow guidance to meet you without forcing clarity or direction.

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 bring your hands into Angushtha Mudra by extending your thumbs and letting your other fingers relax inside of your palms. Bring just the tips of your thumbs to touch each other in front of your body comfortably. Hold this with your forearms parallel to the earth and your elbows relaxed. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

PRANAYAMA:

Inhale deeply through your nose. Sense your diaphragm move down as your belly expands.

Pause full at the top of the breath and just be in the stillness as long as is comfortable. Listen for all forms of guidance in the stillness. This may be visceral sensations, words, images, symbols, colors, animals, intuitive inspiration or subtle feelings. Invite in a deep sense of knowing that these messages are for you.

Exhale slowly through your nose. Feel your diaphragm float up as your belly releases.

Pause empty and again, just be in the stillness as long as is comfortable. Listen in the stillness at the bottom of the breath too.

Continue tuning into the guidance available to you in the still places between your breaths for 3-5 minutes. 

DRISHTI:

Soften or close your eyes if it feels safe and comfortable to bring your focus further inward.

TO END:

Release control of your breath and pause to reflect on any guidance you received and how you are meant to express it into the world.

✨MANTRA:

I’m learning to sit in stillness and trust the truth that meets me there to guide me

I hope this practice supports you in finding safety in stillness so you can gain clarity from your own guidance.

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