Scorpio New Moon Mudra: Shunya — honor your shadows and embrace your light as you open to your transformation and reveal your magic
Welcome to the Scorpio New Moon:
This Scorpio New Moon invites you to journey inward — to explore what’s ready to be released, transformed, or revealed. Scorpio is the alchemist of the zodiac, guiding you to honor your shadows, trust your emotional depth, and reclaim and reveal your magic. As both the sun and moon meet in this water sign, you are invited to shed old skin and step into a more empowered version of yourself — one that embraces all of who you are, light and dark alike.
Our featured Shunya Mudra embodies this transformative energy — a simple, spacious shape that helps you ease tension, release limiting beliefs, and open to new perspectives and possibilities. You could also pair it with the reflections or movement practices from the Scorpio New Moon Embodied Workbook if you’d like to explore the energy more deeply, or with the Scorpio Season Workbook if you’d like to go even deeper beyond this new moon.
And if you’d like to move through the lunar cycles in community, our memberships are here to hold you— with live classes, recorded practices, new and full moon workbooks, and an ever-growing library of supportive tools. Check out ways to practice mudras and more with our empowering yoga community on our live class schedule.
Katrina Marie Yoga is a supportive space to practice, reflect, and remember that you don’t have to do this all at once — or alone. You can simply start where the moon is — right here, right now — and let her guide you back to your own natural rhythm.
Above all, let this New Moon remind you that transformation doesn’t happen all at once. It happens breath by breath, layer by layer. So take what you need and leave what you don’t. Perhaps begin right here, with this mudra and the practices that support it.
🫶🏻Practice Shunya Mudra:
WHEN
Around the Scorpio New Moon, when both the sun and moon align in Scorpio’s energy of shadows, transformation, and revealing your inner magic.
WHY:
The Scorpio New Moon is a time to move beyond old patterns and create spaciousness for deep emotional truth. This practice opens the throat, shoulders, and mind to help you move through transformation with clarity, ease, and courage.
Benefits:
Creates openness for rebirth
Eases tension in the shoulders, neck, throat & head
Releases limiting beliefs and old stories
Opens you to new magic, perspectives & possibilities
Creates space between thoughts
Supports the thyroid gland
Activates the throat (visshudha) chakra
Helps you soften self-judgment & receive insight
HOW:
Find any comfortable seat, perhaps on the edge of a bolster or folded blanket to support balance in your pelvis - somatically ruled by Scorpio.
Bend each middle finger so its tip meets the base of your thumb on each hand.
Secure your middle fingers with your thumbs.
Rest the backs of your hands on your knees or legs comfortably.
Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
Let your breath begin to slow and deepen.
BREATHE:
Pause at the bottom of your next breath, then begin to…
Inhale in four equal pieces and exhale in one easy breath out for one minute.
Inhale in one long breath and exhale in four equal pieces for one minute.
Breathe long and deeply for one more full minute.
Release control of your breath and hold the mudra as you reflect on your shadows and your light and the value of both for the next few minutes.
MANTRA:
Repeat these mantras silently or declare them out loud as you hold the mudra.
Allow their intention to settle in your body—letting each repetition draw you deeper into the energy of the Scorpio New Moon.
I honor the wisdom in my shadows.
I surrender to sacred transformation.
I reclaim and reveal the magic of my light.
EMBODY YOUR INTENTION:
After an exhale, release the mudra and allow your hands to rest where they feel most supported.
Take a moment to notice what has shifted — even slightly.
What part of you is ready to be revealed?
Let your body tell you.
Let your breath guide you.
Let your shadows illuminate your next step.
Set an intention on this Scorpio New Moon to honor, transform, and reveal the magic that’s already yours.
Perhaps write your intention down and place it somewhere you can see throughout this season of the moon and life.
May it guide you gently through this lunar cycle.
May this Scorpio New Moon help you see the value in your shadows, open to your transformation, and reclaim and reveal all your magic.
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