Purna Jnanam Mudra: find clarity on your authentic nature, honor your originality, and expand awareness to receive guidance for living in truth.

Orient to your true self — with clarity, curiosity, and embodied presence.

Purna Jnanam Mudra is a gesture of wholeness, discernment, and authentic self-awareness. It helps create spaciousness between thoughts, balance activity with rest, and support the breath so insight can arise without force. This mudra is especially supportive when you’re orienting to who you truly are beneath conditioning, expectations, or habitual ways of showing up — allowing your authenticity to be felt, lived, and expressed from the inside out.

These qualities tend to feel more noticeable during Aquarius season, when this energy naturally highlights originality, self-truth, and a willingness to see differently. But they arise anytime you’re ready to relate more honestly to yourself, loosen rigid identities, and welcome new ways of thinking, being, doing, and belonging.

The shape balances the breath and supports harmony across body systems, chakras, and elements. It encourages discernment between your essential nature and learned patterns, helping you rest in clarity rather than mental effort. With Purna Jnanam Mudra, awareness and authenticity become embodied — not things you strive for, but things you remember.

Practice this mudra anytime you want to reconnect with your authentic essence, create space between thought patterns, and relate to yourself with curiosity instead of judgment. It supports a grounded, visionary presence — helping you show up as the real you, with ease and integrity.

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Purna Jnanam

Benefits of Purna Jnanam Mudra:

· supports originality and authentic self-expression
· calms the nervous system and creates space between thoughts
· balances activity and rest
· extends and balances all parts of the breath
· supports discernment between true essence and conditioned identity
· opens awareness to receiving guidance
· supports balance across all body systems
· supports balance across chakras and elements
· cultivates ease, clarity, and embodied presence

Why practice Purna Jnanam Mudra:

Practice Purna Jnanam Mudra to reconnect with your authentic essence, create space between thought patterns, and balance visionary awareness with grounded presence — helping you orient to who you truly are beneath conditioning, expectation, or external noise.

How to practice Purna Jnanam Mudra:

Find a comfortable seat. Join the tip of your index finger to the tip of your thumb on each hand, keeping your other fingers extended. Hold your left forearm parallel to the earth with your wrist bent, fingers reaching down, and palm facing forward. Hold your right hand next to your right shoulder with fingers pointing up, elbow pointing down, and palm facing forward. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Relate to the Real You Meditation

WHY:

Practice this meditation to create spacious clarity on the true self, balance the breath and nervous system activity, and relate directly to your real essence — supporting authenticity, discernment, and ease as you orient to who you really are.

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 Purna Jnanam Mudra by joining the tip of your index finger to the tip of your thumb on each hand. Keep your other fingers extended. Hold your left forearm parallel to the earth with your wrist bent, your extended fingers reaching down, and your palm facing forward. Hold your right hand next to your right shoulder with your extended fingers pointing up, your elbow pointing down, and your palm facing forward. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

DRISHTI:

Invitation to soften or close your eyes if it feels safe to further go inward and connect to what you find there.

PRANAYAMA + MANTRA:

You will repeat this cycle three times.
Inhale deeply through your nose. Pause briefly.
Exhale fully through your nose. Pause.
After the exhale, pump your navel rhythmically in even counts, up to 24 times.

Mentally attach SAT to the odd-numbered pumps and NAM to the even-numbered pumps, creating up to 12 SAT NAM repetitions per round.

TO END:

Release control after your third breath and sit in silent reflection with your natural breath and the mudra.

✨MANTRA:

I know exactly who I am, and I show up as the real me in the world.

May you expand your awareness to find clarity on your authentic nature and honor your unique originality.

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