A Mudra for Beltane: Shakti — for expression, feminine power & creative fire

Your creative fire is not something you have to find outside yourself. It is already alive within you.

Shakti Mudra is a gesture of the goddess—a practice to support your creative life force as it gathers, moves, and is expressed through your body. It supports your reproductive and eliminatory systems, opens and balances your root and sacral chakras, and cultivates emotional balance and equanimity.

Beltane arrives May 1st—the ancient fire festival at the midpoint between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. A time of growth, vitality, and life in full bloom. The Earth is fully alive, and she invites you to feel that same aliveness within your own body.

There is a reason Beltane lands during Taurus season. This earth sign invites you to slow down, feel, and trust what is already real and present within you. Your creative fire is something you can sense when you give it space.

Practice this mudra anytime you want to be reminded of your feminine power and the creative force you are. And if you want to go deeper into the energy of this season, check out our Taurus Season Workbook.

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🫶🏻MUDRA: Shakti

WHEN:

Practice around Beltane or anytime you want to support your expression, feminine power, and creative fire.

WHY:

Practice Shakti Mudra to tend to your creative life force during this season of growth and vitality. This mudra supports you in allowing your energy to gather, move, and be expressed in a way that feels steady and supported within your body.

Benefits of Shakti Mudra:

· directs breath and awareness to the base of your body and pelvis
· supports your eliminatory, urinary, and reproductive systems
· activates the downward-moving current of energy
· opens and balances your root (Muladhara) and sacral (Svadhisthana) chakras
· connects you to the stability of the earth element and the fluidity of the water element
· allows energy to move naturally through your body
· cultivates emotional balance and equanimity
· supports connection to your inner energy and creative life force

HOW:

Find a comfortable seat with both sit bones anchored. Bring your palms together with your fingers facing away from your body. Keep the tips of your ring and little fingers together and separate the base of your palms, thumbs, index, and middle fingers. Wrap your index and middle fingers loosely around your thumbs. Rest your wrists comfortably against your body. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Shakti Channeling

WHY:

Practice this meditation to direct the energy that is innately yours with intention. It invites you to gather your shakti — your creative life force — and channel it through the body with breath and steady awareness.

PLACE:

Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a cushion or blanket to get your hips higher than your knees. Allow both sit bones to feel grounded and supported as your shoulders naturally align over your hips.

MUDRA:

Bring your hands into Shakti Mudra — palms together with fingers facing away from your body. Keep the tips of your ring and little fingers together and separate the base of your palms, thumbs, index and middle fingers. Wrap your index and middle fingers loosely around your thumbs. Rest your wrists comfortably against your body. Soften your shoulders and align your spine.

PRANAYAMA:

Begin Inner Flame Breath through your nose. Inhale partway, then begin to focus on the exhales. With each exhale, gently and powerfully draw your navel back toward your spine. Let each inhale naturally rebound as your belly softens and expands. Keep your heart gently lifted and your shoulders soft. Continue for 1–3 minutes.

DRISHTI:

As you settle into your breath, if it feels safe and comfortable, allow your eyelids to soften and close.

TO END:

When you feel complete, take a deep inhale and hold your breath as long as is comfortable. When you are ready, exhale to release your breath and your hands. Pause to sit and feel for another 1–3 minutes.

✨Beltane Mantra: Adi Shakti

The Adi Shakti mantra comes from the Kundalini Yoga tradition and honors the primal creative energy within you—the energy that creates, moves, expresses, and transforms.

Adi Shakti — the primal power, the first force of creation
Sarab Shakti — the all-encompassing power and energy
Pritham Bhagvati — the force through which all things are created
Kundalini Mata Shakti — the creative power rising within you, the Divine Mother energy
Namo Namo — I bow in reverence to…

You don’t need to understand every word or repeat it perfectly. Simply allow the sound to move through you in whatever way feels supportive.

Adi Shakti Adi Shakti Adi Shakti Namo Namo
Sarab Shakti Sarab Shakti Sarab Shakti Namo Namo
Pritham Bhagvati Pritham Bhagvati Pritham Bhagvati Namo Namo
Kundalini Mata Shakti Mata Shakti Namo Namo

Play it during your practice, let it move softly in the background as you breathe and be, or invite your body to move and dance freely along to the mantra. Try Ajeet’s if you want something more centered and Jaya Lakshmi’s if you want something more upbeat. 💃🏻

May you stand in your feminine power and be the creatrix that you are!

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