Samputa Mudra: meet each moment with truth, move from sovereignty, and offer spaciousness without losing yourself.

Stand steady in your truth — and empower others to do the same.

Samputa Mudra is a gesture of honesty, compassion, and spacious communication. It helps you stay centered in what’s true for you while allowing others to hold their truths without the need to fix, convince, or defend. This mudra is especially supportive during moments where many personalities and expectations gather in the same room — the kinds of moments that sometimes stir tension, preachiness, or “my way or the highway” energy.

These dynamics tend to show up more around transitional seasons and holidays, but they truly arise anytime life brings you into close proximity with others’ opinions, intensity, or projections. Samputa Mudra offers a grounded way back to clarity, integrity, and openness.

The shape softens the throat, jaw, neck, and shoulders — reconnecting you to the calm clarity of your throat chakra. It encourages you to speak from integrity rather than reactivity, to listen without defensiveness, and to meet difference with compassion instead of pressure. It supports the thyroid and vocal cords too. With Samputa Mudra, you remember that owning your truth doesn’t require force — and accepting someone else’s doesn’t diminish your own.

Practice this mudra anytime you feel pulled into drama, pushed to perform or conform, or challenged by someone else’s intensity. It helps you respond with openness instead of overwhelm — staying steady yet kind. It’s especially helpful when Sagittarius shadow energy arises (in you or others): bluntness, righteousness, or the urge to be the one who is right. You don’t need to overpower — your sovereignty speaks for itself.

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Samputa

Benefits of Samputa Mudra:

• called the gesture of truthfulness

• opens you to receiving guidance for your true life journey

• compassion

• communication

• integrity

• non-judgemental

• supports the health of the throat and vocal cords

• supports the thyroid

• supports metabolism

• connection to throat (vishuddha) chakra

• connection to the space element

Why practice Samputa Mudra:

Practice Samputa Mudra to stay rooted in your truth while creating spaciousness for others to hold theirs — helping you move through intensity, expectations, or family dynamics with clarity, compassion, and sovereignty.

How to practice Samputa Mudra:

Find a comfortable seat. Hold your left hand in front of your solar plexus or navel with your palm cupped and facing up. Cup your right hand above it with the palm facing down. Let your right fingertips rest on the edge of your left thumb. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Sovereignty + Truth Meditation

WHY:

Practice this meditation to steady your nervous system, find clarity on your inner truth, and release the pressure to perform or defend — supporting you in speaking, listening, and relating from a grounded place of integrity.

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 Samputa Mudra by holding your left hand in front of your solar plexus or navel with your palm cupped and facing up. Cup your right hand above it with your palm facing down. Let your right fingertips rest on the edge of your left thumb. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

PRANAYAMA + MANTRA:

SAT NAM- truth is my identity

Inhale through your nose in four equal pieces. With each piece, fill your belly and mentally vibrate the mantra “SAT”. Pause. Exhale through your nose in four equal pieces. With each piece, draw your belly to the spine and mentally vibrate the mantra “NAM”. Pause at the bottom. Continue for 3-5 minutes.

DRISHTI:

If it feels safe, allow your eyelids to feel heavy and close.

TO END:

Release the mudra and control of your breath and pause to reflect on your steady truth.

✨MANTRA:

I own my truth and accept yours, too.

May you move forward with clarity, steady boundaries, and a heart that stays open without abandoning yourself.

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