A Mudra for the Lunar New Year: Ushas Mudra for claiming the peace, prosperity, and possibility available to you now

Claim peace, prosperity, and possibility.

Ushas Mudra is a gesture of presence, clarity, and claiming what is available to you. It supports moments when you’re ready to recognize opportunity and potential without controlling or forcing anything. This mudra helps unify mind, body, and breath, supporting mental clarity, circulation throughout the body, and a steady relationship with the present moment — where peace, prosperity, and possibility already exist for you.

The Lunar New Year offers a ritual way to begin again, guided by the rhythm of the moon rather than any pressure of the calendar. It typically begins on the first new moon that lands in late January or early to mid-February and is celebrated until the following full moon lights up the sky. It is one of the most celebrated holidays in many Asian cultures. It is a time to welcome and enjoy good luck, fortune, and happiness! This threshold invites perspective, curiosity, and openness to what wants to unfold next. Ushas Mudra supports this energy by helping you stay grounded and present as you consciously claim what you’re ready to receive.

The following practice is part of our Lunar New Year Workbook, where the ritual flows through embodied exploration of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac — 🐀 Rat, 🐂 Ox, 🐅 Tiger, 🐇 Rabbit, 🐉 Dragon, 🐍 Snake, 🐎 Horse, 🐐 Goat, 🐒 Monkey, 🐓 Rooster, 🐕 Dog, and 🐖 Pig. Rather than learning these energies intellectually, you’re invited to feel them in your body and notice what resonates as you move into the Lunar Year.

Practice this mudra anytime you want to claim peace, prosperity, and possibility — and orient yourself toward the Lunar New Year with steadiness, embodiment, and care. If you’d like to experience this ritual live, look for the Lunar New Year Embodied Ritual on our class schedule, where we move through the workbook together as a guided, embodied experience.

Check out ways to practice mudras live with our empowering yoga community on our live class schedule! All of our workbooks, including the Lunar New Year Workbook, are included with our memberships and available anytime to support your practice.

🫶🏻MUDRA: Ushas

Benefits of Ushas Mudra:

• supports potential, possibility, and forward movement
• cultivates positivity, curiosity, and freedom
• supports truth, presence, and mental clarity
• encourages equanimity and unified openness
• supports claiming prosperity and available opportunities
• invites a grounded, positive outlook
• honors mystery while staying rooted in the present moment
• enhances circulation through all organ systems
• supports the first five chakras
• connects to all five elements

Why practice Ushas Mudra:

Practice Ushas Mudra to claim peace, prosperity, and possibility as you enter the Lunar New Year. This mudra supports embodied confidence and clarity — helping you recognize what is available to you and meet it with presence, trust, and steadiness rather than hesitation or doubt.

How to practice Ushas Mudra:

Stand tall and interlace your fingers with your left index finger on top. Let your palms open upward. Soften your thumbs and allow them to touch if they’d like. Rest the shape gently against your torso with your elbows slightly wide. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

Customize it: Although powerful when practiced standing, this mudra can also be done seated. If seated, allow your hands to rest in your lap if that feels comfortable.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Claiming Peace, Prosperity, + Possiblity

WHY:

Practice this meditation to ground your body and breath as you claim what you are ready to receive. This practice supports steadiness, clarity, and self-trust as you consciously step into peace, prosperity, and possibility awaiting you at the Lunar New Year.

PLACE:

Come to stand. You may also practice this meditation from any comfortable seated position.

MUDRA:

Invitation to bring your hands into Ushas Mudra by interlacing your fingers with your left index finger on top. Let your palms open upward. Soften your thumbs and rest the shape against your torso if standing, or gently in your lap if seated. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

PRANAYAMA:

Inhale through your nose for a count of five.
Pause to be with your breath for a count of five.
Release the breath through your nose for a count of five.
Continue for 3–5 minutes.

DRISHTI:

As you settle into your breath, if it feels safe and comfortable, allow your eyelids to soften and close.

TO END:

Release control of your breath and release the hand shape. Rest your hands with palms facing up on your knees if seated, or near your ribs if standing. Pause to sense how peace, prosperity, and possibility feel in your body.

✨LUNAR NEW YEAR MANTRA:

I claim the peace, prosperity, and possibility available to me now.

May this practice support you in claiming what’s available to you as you step into the Lunar New Year.

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