Kali Mudra: release what isn’t yours so you can freely expand into your authentic truth.

Let freedom guide you back to your truest self.

Kali Mudra is a gesture of liberation, intention, and honest self-expression. It helps you release limiting beliefs, soften tension through the shoulders, neck, and throat, and create the spaciousness needed for your true voice to rise. This mudra supports the part of you that longs to move freely, choose boldly, and live life on your own terms — a desire Sagittarius energy often amplifies, but a truth that lives within you always.

These themes tend to surface whenever life invites you to let go of old constraints, speak your truth more clearly, or align your choices with who you’re becoming. Kali Mudra offers a steady, centered pathway back to that freedom — helping you expand without overwhelm, express yourself without fear, and trust the intuitive knowing that guides your next step.

The shape encourages circulation to the thyroid, supports the throat chakra, and connects you to the spacious element of ether. It reminds you that clarity and freedom aren’t found by forcing change, but by releasing what constricts so you can expand instead.

Practice this mudra anytime you want to reconnect with freedom, truth, and authentic expression. It helps you open, expand, and move through life with intention and genuine joy.

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Kali

Benefits of Kali Mudra:

• freedom

• true being

• intuition + intention

• release limiting beliefs

• open to the voice of truth

• reveal your true being

• release tension from shoulders, neck, throat, and vocal cords

• encourage circulation to the thyroid gland

• connection to throat (vishuddha) chakra

• connection to the space element

Why practice Kali Mudra:

Practice Kali Mudra to release limiting beliefs, soften tension around your truth, and create the spacious freedom you need to express yourself with clarity, confidence, and intention.

How to practice Kali Mudra:

Interlace your fingers outside your hands with your right thumb over your left. Extend and align your index fingers and hold  this in front of your heart with these fingers pointing straight up. Let your elbows rest slightly away from your body as your shoulders soften. Naturally align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Free To Be Me Meditation

WHY:

Practice this meditation to awaken the voice of your truth, strengthen your inner freedom, and anchor into the clarity that helps you choose your path with courage and joy.

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 Kali Mudra by interlacing your fingers outside your hands with your right thumb over your left. Extend and align your index fingers and hold this in front of your heart with these fingers pointing straight up. Let your elbows rest slightly away from your body, and let your shoulders soften. Naturally align your spine.

PRANAYAMA:

Inhale deeply through your nose for a count of 5. Exhale through your nose for a count of 5. Hold the breath out for up to a count of 15. Stretch yourself a bit, but honor your nervous system and your boundaries.

MANTRA:

Invitation to mentally vibrate SAT NAM with each count during the pauses after the exhales. This mantra reminds you that all you can ever be is the truest version of you.

DRISHTI:

Softly focus your gaze towards your extended fingers.

TO END:

Inhale deeply and savor the breath as long as is comfortable as you focus your gaze towards your hands. When you are ready to exhale, release your hand shape and control of your breath and pause to reflect.

✨MANTRA:

Nothing stands in the way of my truth, freedom, and joy

May you release what was never yours to carry, so you can claim all that is — expanding freely into your authentic truth.

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