Gyan Mudra: expand and share your wisdom, trust your inner knowing, and anchor into witness clarity that guides your continued expansion.

Let clarity settle as you trust your inner knowing, open to new understanding, and continue owning your role as both teacher and student.

Gyan Mudra is a gesture of higher knowing, mental clarity, and spacious awareness. It helps you soften the mind, expand perspective, and create room for insight to rise without pressure or overwhelm. This mudra is especially supportive during moments where you’re learning, growing, or navigating decisions that ask you to stay open, receptive, and intentional — much like the bright, expansive energy associated with Sagittarius.

These qualities tend to feel especially present as life invites you to stretch beyond old beliefs, explore new ways of seeing, or reconnect with your true purpose. Gyan Mudra offers a steady, centered way to move through that expansion with curiosity, wisdom, and clarity.

The shape calms the nervous system, balances both hemispheres of the brain, and supports the third eye chakra. It encourages concentration without rigidity, intention without force, and spaciousness without dissociation. It opens the lungs, settles mental chaos, and reminds you that insight comes most naturally when you’re grounded, present, breathing deeply and willing to witness your own experience.

Practice this mudra anytime you want to move beyond limiting beliefs, reconnect with inner wisdom, or remember that you are always both teacher and student. It helps you listen deeply, learn generously, and walk through life with openness and purpose.

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Gyan

Benefits of Gyan Mudra:

• wisdom + higher knowledge

• trust what you already know

• open to what you want to learn next

• creates space between thoughts

• deepens concentration

• settles you in the role of the witness

• move beyond limiting beliefs to recognize the limitless true self

• open the lungs

• balance both hemispheres of the brain

• connection to third eye (ajna) chakra

• connection to the space element

Why practice Gyan Mudra:

Practice Gyan Mudra to create space in the mind, strengthen your inner knowing, and reconnect with the wisdom that guides your learning, growth, and purpose.

How to practice Gyan Mudra:

Find a comfortable seat. Bring your hands palms up on your knees or lap. Join the tip of your index finger to the tip of your thumb on each hand. Keep your other fingers extended. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Adi Mantra Meditation

WHY:

Practice this meditation to connect to the teachers all around you, awaken the teacher within, deepen your trust in lived wisdom, and anchor yourself in clarity as you move through life as both learner and guide.

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 Gyan Mudra by bringing your hands palms up on your knees or lap. Join the tip of your index finger to the tip of your thumb on each hand. Keep your other fingers extended. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

MANTRA:

ONG NAMO GURU DEV NAMO - a mantra that connects you to the teacher within you and the teachers all around you, the ones you’ve already learned from and the ones you’ve yet to have. 

PRANAYAMA:

Inhale deeply through your nose. Exhale fully through your mouth as you either mentally or verbally work with the mantra. 

DRISHTI:

If it feels safe, allow your eyelids to feel heavy and close.

TO END:

Release the mudra and control of your breath, and pause to reflect on your knowing.

✨MANTRA:

I am always teaching and always learning

May you trust what you already know, welcome what you’re learning next, open to sharing it all, and walk forward with a clarity that keeps your heart open and your path steady.

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