Pushan Mudra: digest and transform what is no longer needed, come home to your personal power, and find balance in your health

MudrasFire ElementSolar Plexus ChakraDigestionHealthVirgo

Aug 18

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Your gut has so much neurology. It just KNOWS.

One of our mudras from Leo season focused on the heart-brain. This one drops down even further, to the gut-brain!

Help your gut-brain’s knowing nourish and steady you with Pushan Mudra. This hand shape facilitates digestion, transformation, and release so you can return to the truth of who you know you are.

Pushan Mudra is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to connect to calm through personal power and balanced health, but especially during Virgo season when the energy naturally wants this for you too. Virgo is an Earth sign somatically ruled by your belly, and this mudra helps you tap into your personal power through a connection to the fire element and your solar plexus chakra. Your belly holds both. It is a shape that physically supports the digestion and assimilation of literal food nourishment, but also lived experiences.

Find calm and steadiness through your gut-brain knowing and your inner power with this mudra and these tools to support its intention!

Check out ways to practice mudras live with our empowering yoga community on our live class schedule!

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🫶🏻 MUDRA: Pushan Mudra

Benefits of Pushan Mudra:

enhances your agni, or subtle digestive fire
supports balanced activity of your digestive system through digestion, nutrition, and elimination
increases breath and circulation to your digestive system
helps facilitate awareness and gratitude for your digestive system
emotional balance that helps you digest and assimilate your life experiences
helps you learn from your experiences and release what you no longer need
centers you in your personal power
calms and steadies your mind
encourages fuller breathing
facilitates a sense of contentment in your belly
connection to the knowingness of your gut-brain
connection to the fire element
connection to your solar plexus chakra, or Manipura

Why practice Pushan Mudra:
To help you notice what your body is already telling you and trust it enough to keep what nourishes you and release what does not, so you can live with calm, steadiness, and personal power

How to practice Pushan Mudra:
Find any comfortable seat, perhaps on a bolster or blanket to elevate your hips. On your left hand, join the tip of your thumb to the tips of your middle and ring fingers as you extend your other fingers. On your right hand, join the tip of your thumb to the tips of your index and middle fingers as you extend your other fingers. Rest the backs of your hands on your knees or legs comfortably. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️ MEDITATION: Digest Life Experiences

WHY:
A mudra meditation to help you digest your life experiences so you can learn from them, release what you no longer need, and become all you are truly meant to be

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

MUDRA:
Find Pushan Mudra. On your left hand, join the tip of your thumb to the tips of your middle and ring fingers as you extend your other fingers. On your right hand, join the tip of your thumb to the tips of your index and middle fingers as you extend your other fingers. Rest the backs of your hands on your knees or legs comfortably. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

DRISHTI:
Close your eyes if it feels safe and comfortable. Always permission to keep a soft gaze.

PRANAYAMA:
Inhale in four equal pieces through your nose. Really use the power of your navel point to draw in each sip of air. Pause. Exhale in four equal pieces. Again, really power each one with your navel point. Pause. Continue for 3-5 minutes.

MANTRA:
Invitation to attach the mantra SAT to each inhale piece and NAM to each exhale piece. SAT NAM translates to truth is my identity. It will help you digest everything until all that is left is the truth of who you really are.

TO END:
Take one full inhale. Savor that breath in as you hug your root chakra at the base of your spine up and in. Gather your focus to your third eye at the center of your forehead. See if you can feel into energy circulating around your Manipura chakra, just above your navel. When you need to, release your breath and pause as you sit with the mudra for reflection.