Gemini New Moon Mudra: Kilaka — a practice for a curious perspective, honest communication, and being the author of your story
Welcome to the Gemini New Moon:
The Gemini New Moon invites you to explore the stories that shape your truth and the words that bring them to life. This airy lunation celebrates a curious perspective, honest communication, and your right to be the author of your dream life. It asks you to listen deeply, to yourself and to others, and to stay open to the wisdom found in polarity and new perspectives. When you make space for both sides of every story, you begin to see the harmony that has always lived within you. Let this moon remind you that your thoughts, your words, and your expression are sacred tools for creation, and that each breath, each sentence, and each choice is a chance to write the world you wish to live in.
Our featured Kilaka Mudra embodies this airy Gemini energy. It is a hand shape for safety in connection, union, and expression. As you cross your hands and open your palms outward, you create a gesture of connection, an invitation to speak honestly and stay curious about the stories you are living. You could also pair this practice with the reflections and embodiment practices in the Gemini New Moon Embodied Workbook if you'd like to work more intentionally with this lunar energy.
And if you'd like to move through the lunar cycles in community, our memberships are here to hold you, with live classes, recorded practices, new and full moon workbooks, and an ever-growing library of supportive tools. Check out ways to practice mudras and more with our empowering yoga community on our live class schedule.
Above all, Katrina Marie Yoga is a space to practice, reflect, and remember that your voice is yours to use. Your perspective is yours to shift. Your story is yours to write. You are allowed to stay curious, to speak honestly, and to author a life that feels like your own.
So take what you need and leave what you don't. Perhaps for now, begin by aligning with the energy of the Gemini New Moon through the following mudra and the tools that accompany it.
🫶🏻Practice Kilaka Mudra:
WHEN:
Around the Gemini New Moon, when both the sun and moon align in Gemini's airy energy of curious perspective, honest communication, and being the author of your story.
WHY:
This moon asks you to come home to your own voice. Kilaka Mudra meets you there. As your hands join and your palms open outward, the gesture invites safety in connection, union, and expression, a quiet reminder that connection and honesty can live in the same breath. Let it support you as you listen inward, stay curious, and speak the truth that is yours to speak. There is no right way to feel here. Simply let the shape hold you while you explore what wants to be said and what wants to be heard.
BENEFITS:
curiosity
seeing the value in polarities and opposites
ideas and imagination
expression
safety in connection
union
embrace and create change
supports your Throat (Vishuddha) Chakra
connects to the Air element
HOW:
Find a comfortable seat with both sit bones anchored.
Cross your wrists to place the back of your right hand against the back of your left.
Shift your hands so your palms face outward and your pinkies are away from you.
Hook your pinkies together.
Join the tips of your index and middle fingers to the tip of your thumb on each hand. Extend these out to the sides.
Extend your ring fingers up at a slight angle.
Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
BREATHE:
Begin the 4 Piece Breath — a breath practice to encourage a calm, neutral mind, connection, and truth. Gemini somatically rules your upper extremities, lungs, and nervous system. As you practice this, let your shoulders soften and your hands stay easeful, breathing space into your lungs and the whole network of your nervous system.
Find any comfortable seated place with your sit bones anchored into the Earth or support.
Keep your hands in Kilaka Mudra, or choose any hand placement that feels resonant.
Breathe in and out through your nose.
Segment each inhale into four equal pieces with slight pauses between each one.
Segment each exhale into four equal pieces with slight pauses between each one.
Continue for 3 to 5 minutes, letting each small pause become a place of curiosity and connection rather than control.
When you're ready, release control of the breath and continue holding the mudra as you sit in reflection.
MANTRA:
Repeat silently or out loud as you hold the mudra, allowing the words to settle into your body and guide your intention for this new moon:
With an open mind and heart, I stay curious.
I communicate my truth with clarity and care.
I claim my right to be the author of my dream life.
EMBODY YOUR INTENTION:
After a final exhale, release the mudra and let your hands rest wherever they feel most natural. Take a moment to notice what has shifted, even just a little.
What story are you ready to begin writing for yourself in this new cycle?
What truth is asking to be spoken, gently and honestly, out loud?
What perspective would you love to stay curious about as you move forward?
Let your body answer.
Let your breath guide you.
Let your curious perspective and honest communication illuminate your next step.
When something rises, write it down. Let your intention for this lunar cycle become a sentence you can return to.
May it support you as you open your mind, speak your truth, and author the life that is yours.
May this Gemini New Moon support you in staying curious, communicating your truth, and claiming your right to author your own story.
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