Pala Mudra: release, soften, and trust to feel grounded, safe, and open as you let go and allow your next rebirth

Loosen your grip on control to find ease.

Pala Mudra offers a soft place to rest when control, comparison, or fear tighten their hold on your heart. It’s a grounding shape that helps you release the need to manage every detail and return to the steadiness that lives beneath it all. When you cup your hands in this way, you’re symbolically holding trust itself — learning that safety isn’t something to grasp for, but something you cultivate within your own body.

This practice reflects the medicine of Scorpio’s shadow — the alchemy of transforming attachment into trust and control into flow. It reminds you that even the deepest waters can feel steady when you surrender to their rhythm. By harmonizing the water and earth elements, Pala Mudra supports the health of the reproductive and digestive systems while reconnecting you to your root and sacral chakras.

Practice this mudra anytime you feel constricted by fear, jealousy, or the urge to control. It invites you to release what you can’t hold, rest in what’s real, and trust that what’s meant for you will always remain.

Align with your own trusting energy through this mudra and the practices that accompany it.

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Pala

Benefits of Pala Mudra:

• non-attachment

• trust

• wholeness

• safety

• ease

• supports health of the digestive and reproductive systems

• connection to the water + earth elements

• connection to sacral (svadhisthana) and root (muladhara) chakras

Why practice Pala Mudra:

Practice Pala Mudra to release control and soften into trust — a grounding gesture that helps you return to safety within yourself, ease tension, and flow through change with steadiness and grace

How to practice Pala Mudra:

Find any comfortable seat. Gently cup both hands. Hold your left one with your palm facing up under your navel. Hold your right one with your palm facing down just at your navel. Let your hands softly rest against your body. Soften your shoulders, let your elbows reach slightly away from your ribs, and naturally align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Release Stress + Control

WHY:

Practice this meditation to calm the mind and body when fear, tension, or the need to control begin to take hold. It helps you release what you can’t manage, breathe into what’s real, and trust the natural unfolding of your life.

PLACE:

Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a bolster or blanket to get your hips a little higher than your knees. 

MUDRA:

Find Pala Mudra by gently cupping both hands. Hold your left one with your palm facing up under your navel. Hold your right one with your palm facing down at your navel. Let your hands softly rest against your body. Soften your shoulders, let your elbows reach slightly away from your ribs, and naturally align your spine.

DRISHTI:

Invitation to gather your focus towards the tip of your nose. Always permission to keep a soft gaze.

PRANAYAMA:

Inhale through your nose for a count of five. Savor the breath for a count of five. Exhale through your nose for a count of five. Continue for 1-5 minutes.

TO END:

After an exhale, release control of your breath and release your hands down. Pause to reflect

✨MANTRA:

With only trust, and without attachments, I move forward.

I hope you find peace in loosening your grip — trusting that what’s meant for you will stay, and what’s ready to go will make space for your next rebirth.

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