Purna Hridaya Mudra: harmonize heart and mind to feel supported, compassionate, and anchored in your peaceful power
Open your heart and your breath so you can lead with peace.
Purna Hridaya Mudra is a heart-centered shape that awakens the highest expressions of Libra Season: peace, harmony, fairness, and compassionate connection. This mudra invites you to embody those qualities not just outwardly, but within yourself.
Libra’s airy energy brings movement, ideas, and relational awareness. When we lean into its light, we find beautiful opportunities for collaboration, emotional balance, and heart-centered leadership. Purna Hridaya Mudra supports that process by creating space for psycho-emotional well-being—helping you integrate your thoughts and feelings, so you can respond to life with grace and clarity.
This shape gently opens the chest, deepens the breath, and soothes the nervous system. It connects you with your heart chakra (anahata) and the air element, allowing you to move through the world with openness, vitality, and inner peace.
When practiced regularly, Purna Hridaya can ease heaviness, awaken compassion, and reconnect you to your capacity for harmony—in your body, your mind, and your relationships.
Align with the light side of Libra energy through this mudra and the practices that accompany it.
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🫶🏻MUDRA: Purna Hridaya Mudra
Benefits of Purna Hridaya Mudra:
open heart
compassion
harmony
peace
psycho-emotional well-being
honoring thoughts and feelings
energy
eases depression
opens the chest
deepens the breath
supports the heart chakra
connection to the air element
Why practice Purna Hridaya Mudra:
To harmonize heart and mind, awaken compassion, and embody peaceful inner strength.
How to practice Purna Hridaya Mudra:
Find any comfortable seat. 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
🧘🏻♀️MEDITATION: Embodied Peace and Love
WHY:
A meditation to help you embody peace and love through breath and mudra.
PLACE:
Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a bolster or blanket to get your hips a little higher than your knees.
MUDRA:
Find Purna Hridaya Mudra by interlacing 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.
DRISHTI:
Let your eyelids feel heavy and close if it feels safe. Always permission to keep a soft gaze.
PRANAYAMA:
Inhale deeply through your nose for a count of five as you imagine the breath entering your heart through your heart shaped hands. Exhale fully through your nose for a count of five as you imagine offering peace from your heart, through your heart shaped hands and out into the world. Adjust the count as needed, but try to keep the inhale and exhale balanced and equal. Continue for 3-5 minutes.
TO END:
After an exhale, release control of your breath and release your hands to sit and reflect on being an embodiment of peace and love on this planet.
✨MANTRA:
I am an embodiment of love and a warrior of peace.
I hope you embody the peace and love that you innately are!
