Chaturmukham Mudra: cultivate contentment so you can stay centered in the truth of who you are despite what is happening around you

Contentment is a state of being fully at peace with everything, just as it is. It is a stable and steadfast emotion that allows you to accept the light and the dark knowing you can navigate it all.

Chaturmukam mudra helps you cultivate this steady emotion so you can live life with a positive outlook even if certain situations feel not so positive. This allows you to connect to your true being and always find a silver lining.

It is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to shift into the energy of contentment, but especially during Gemini Season when the cosmos is calling you to appreciate polarities. It’s just like in the Disney movie, Inside Out, that teaches children (and grownups) about the value of the full spectrum of emotions. You can’t have the joy without knowing sadness. You can’t have calm without a little anger. You can’t have ease without first knowing fear.

The beautiful sankrit yoga word, santosha, means contentment. It refers to the ability to remain centered within the truth of who you are despite what is happening around you.

Cultivate santosha for yourself with this mudra and these tools to support its intention!

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Chaturmukham Mudra

Benefits of Chaturmukham Mudra:

• centeredness

• calm

• contentment

• positive outlook

• emotional balance and regulation

• eases depression

• supports the digestive system

• digestion of nourishment and emotions

• opens and lengthens the breath

• balances all elements

• connection to your root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, and throat chakras

Why practice Chaturmukham Mudra:

To remain centered in your sense of contentment even when challenges arise. To know you can navigate anything and always find a silver lining.

How to practice Chaturmukham Mudra:
Join the tip of each finger on your left hand to the tip of the corresponding finger on your right hand. Keep your thumbs extended straight up. Hold this in front of your body with elbows away from your body, your wrists separated slightly, and your fingers separated and slightly rounded as if holding a ball. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Whistling Meditation

WHY:

A mudra meditation to welcome positivity, contentment, and lightness through the joy of whistling.

PLACE:

Find any comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on the support of a folded blanket or bolster to get your hips a little higher than your knees.

MUDRA:

Find Chaturmukha mudra by joining the tip of each finger on your left hand to the tip of the corresponding finger on your right hand. Keep your thumbs extended straight up. Hold this in front of your body with elbows away from your body, your wrists separated slightly, and your fingers separated and slightly rounded as if holding a ball. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.. 

PRANAYAMA: 

Breathe deeply in through your nose. Exhale fully through your lips with a long whistle sound. Give yourself full freedom to express and have fun with it. Feel the polarity of the quietness of the inhale and the expressiveness of the exhale. 

TO END:

With an exhale, release control of the breath and the mudra. Pause to reflect.

✨MANTRA:

I choose to center myself in contentment and embrace positive perspectives

I wish you contentment and centeredness!