Gyan Mudra: foster concentration and safety so you can focus on living your truth

It’s time to foster concentration and safety so you can lean into your knowing and focus on living your truth!

It’s hard to live your truth if you can’t stay focused on what it is - or don’t feel safe doing so. It’s easy to get distracted from your mission, especially during Gemini Season (or any air sign season really!). Air sign energy wants to make a difference, but can get VERY distracted along the way. Gyan mudra recenters your focus. That’s why it is so potent to work with during Gemini Season or anytime you want to work with Gemini or other air energy.

This hand shape helps you connect to your root chakra, or muladhara, so you can center yourself. It helps you focus your curiosity and intellect so you can make a difference rather than get distracted! Cultivate that for yourself with this mudra and these tools to support its intention!

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Gyan Mudra

Benefits of Gyan Mudra:

• concentration

• focus

• patience

• calm

• mental clarity

• higher knowledge

• clear seeing

• wisdom

• mental and physical health

• safety

• knowing

• connection to your muladhara or root chakra

Why practice Gyan Mudra:

Through a connection to your root chakra, Gyan mudra creates a sense of safety so you can trust what you KNOW to be true for you. It helps you focus on living from that place. It helps you trade distraction in for concentrated wisdom. Live your life focused and fully aligned to your truth with this mudra!

How to practice Gyan Mudra:
Connect the tip of your index fingers to the tip of your thumbs on each hand to form circles. Keep your other fingers extended. Rest the backs of your hands on your knees or legs comfortably. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Pulse Focus Sat Nams

WHY:

A mudra meditation to steady your mind and center your awareness in the truth of who you are and what you know. A beautiful meditation to connect to when you want an anchor that isn’t breath-focused.

PLACE:

Find any comfortable seat, add support under your sit bones if you’d like.

MUDRA:

Find Gyan mudra on both hands by connecting the tips of your index fingers to the tips of your thumbs on each hand to form circles. Keep your other fingers extended. Rest the backs of your hands on your knees or legs comfortably. Soften your shoulders and align your spine

PRANAYAMA: 

Breathe naturally and deeply- in and out through your nose if available. 

DRISHTI: 

Gather all of your awareness to your pulse. Invitation to keep your mudra on one hand and take the other to a pulse point like your inner wrist or neck. 

MANTRA: 

SAT NAM - Truth is my identity

Invitation to attach SAT and then NAM to each pulse of your own heart, alternating each syllable with each beat of your heart. 

TO END:

With an exhale, release control of your awareness. Pause to reflect on how you feel and what it was like to be present with yourself in this way.

✨MANTRA:

I am focused on living my truth.

Wishing you spaces of heart-centeredness so you can focus on living your truest truth and make a real difference in the world!