Welcome to the Libra New Moon:
The Libra New Moon arrives as a moment of gentle rebalancing, an invitation to tend your relationships and remember the one you are in with yourself. As the sign of partnership and harmony, Libra reminds you that peace is not something you keep by going quiet. It is something you build by being honest with both clarity and compassion. This lunation invites you to notice the beauty within you and around you, to honor your relationships as sacred ground for healing, and to let radical acceptance replace self-abandonment. Libra can get conflict avoidant, but it is a cardinal sign, and it reminds you that you are always allowed to begin again and lead with what is true for you. Let this moon remind you that every small act of returning to your own center is an act of devotion to your peace and your wholeness. This then ripples out into the world by allowing you to meet everyone else from a place of real harmony rather than resentment.
Our featured Purna Hridaya Mudra embodies this airy Libra energy, a hand shape for peace, harmony, and an open heart. This mudra opens your heart so you can look honestly at your relationships without armor, honor your thoughts and feelings exactly as they are, and remember that the beauty you keep looking for also lives in you. You could also pair this practice with the reflections and embodiment practices in the Libra New Moon Embodied Workbook if you'd like to work more intentionally with this lunar energy, or with the Libra Season Workbook if you'd like to continue the ritual through all of Libra Season.
And if you’d like to move through the lunar cycles in community, our memberships are here for you. We hold safe space through live studio and virtual classes, new and full moon workbooks, astrological season workbooks, and an ever-growing library of on-demand content. 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 supportive space to practice, reflect, and remember that you don't have to do this all at once, or alone. There is no keeping the peace at the expense of your own. Your feelings matter. Your beauty is yours to notice rather than earn. You can simply start where the moon is, right here, right now, and let her guide you back to your own natural rhythm.
So take what you need and leave what you don’t. Perhaps for now, begin by aligning with the energy of the Libra New Moon through the following mudra and the tools that accompany it.
🫶🏻Practice Purna Hridaya Mudra:
WHEN:
Around the Libra New Moon, when both the sun and moon align in Libra's airy energy of balance, beauty, and heart-centered harmony.
WHY:
This moon asks you to tend your relationships without abandoning the one with yourself in the process. Purna Hridaya Mudra meets you there. It opens your heart and instills a sense of peace and compassion, so you can look honestly at your relationships and honor the beauty you already are. If this shape does not feel resonant in your body, you are welcome to trade it for any hand position that supports you. Your body's wisdom always comes first.
BENEFITS:
balance
beauty
heart-centered harmony
peace and harmony
an open heart
honoring your thoughts and feelings
compassion and self-acceptance
calms your mind and creates space between your thoughts
invites joy and radiance from deep within your heart
releases muscular constriction from your chest
improves your breath capacity
supports your immunity
brings breath and awareness into your chest, your side ribs, and your upper back
increases circulation around your thymus gland
activates Prana vayu, your upward moving current of energy
supports your heart (Anahata) Chakra
connects to the air element
HOW:
Find a comfortable seat with both sit bones anchored. Perhaps sit on the edge of a support to balance your pelvis and spine.
Interlace the tips of your fingers with their tips and palms facing down.
Extend your thumbs down to touch at their tips.
Allow this shape to align to form a heart in front of your own heart.
Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
BREATHE:
Begin Balanced Breath, a breath practice to balance and harmonize. Libra somatically rules your back. As you practice this, let each equal part of the breath move into your chest, your side ribs, and your upper back, offering love to the part of you that holds you upright all day.
Keep your hands in Purna Hridaya Mudra, or choose any hand placement that feels resonant.
Inhale through your nose for a count of 5.
Pause briefly.
Exhale through your nose for a count of 5.
Pause briefly.
Continue this steady rhythm for 3–5 minutes. Invitation to adjust the count as needed, but try to keep the pieces equal as best you can. Let each breath move through your heart space, balancing effort and ease, inviting calm into every corner of your body.
If it feels right, imagine each breath creating waves of harmony that flow through your chest, shoulders, and spine.
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 each breath, I return to balance.
I see beauty within and around me.
I embody heart-centered harmony.
EMBODY YOUR INTENTION:
After an exhale, release the mudra and control of your breath, and allow your hands to rest wherever you feel called, perhaps on your own heart. Take a moment to pause and be in your body. Notice what has shifted, even just a little.
Can you sense qualities of balance, beauty, and harmony here? Where do they live in your body now?
Be honest, how are you currently nurturing your relationship with yourself?
No judgement, but do you need to forgive YOU for anything?
How do you want to open your heart to be an ambassador for a more beautiful and peaceful world?
Let your body answer.
Let your breath guide you.
Let balance and heart-centered harmony illuminate your next step.
As you rest here, invite a new moon intention to rise from that space. Let it come naturally, as sensation, emotion, or quiet knowing. Breathe it into your body, anchoring it with love and awareness. Perhaps write your intention down and place it somewhere you can see throughout this season of the moon and life.
May it guide you gently through this lunar cycle.
May this Libra New Moon support you in returning to your balance, seeing the beauty within and around you, and embodying heart-centered harmony.
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