Welcome to the Taurus Full Moon:
The Taurus Full Moon invites you to pause, listen, and root into what is real. This lunation shines a light on the places where you have outgrown your own comfort, the worth you keep trying to earn instead of simply remembering, and the beauty that has been around you the whole time while you were too busy to notice. Taurus asks you to slow down enough to feel your own life. It reminds you that growth does not have to be rushed, that it can unfold in stillness and through the body. And with the sun illuminating Scorpio across the sky, it reminds you that transformation is not something you force, it is something you lean into.
Our featured Murti Mudra embodies this grounded Taurus energy, a hand shape for steadiness and comfort. Murti means body, and your hands rest low, below your navel, sending your breath and awareness into the base of you where your foundation always lives. It lengthens your spine and your exhale, and grounds you into the Earth beneath you, so steadiness and ease can coexist. You could also pair this practice with the reflections and embodiment practices in the Taurus Full Moon Embodied Workbook if you would like to work more intentionally with this lunar energy, or with the Scorpio Season Workbook if you feel called to work with the transformation this moon is asking for.
And if you would 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.
Above all, Katrina Marie Yoga is a space to practice, reflect, and remember that your worth is not a reward for how much you do. Your body is not a problem to solve. Rest does not need to be earned. You are allowed to stop, and you are allowed to find that everything you needed was already here.
So take what you need and leave what you don’t. Perhaps for now, begin by aligning with the energy of the Taurus Full Moon through the following mudra and the tools that accompany it.
🫶🏻Practice Murti Mudra:
WHEN:
Around the Taurus Full Moon, when the moon illuminates themes of transformational stillness, embodied self-worth, and abundant beauty.
WHY:
This moon asks you to be still, and stillness is not always simple when you have learned that your worth is something you earn by doing. Taurus energy is slow, sensory and patient. It does not reward hurry. It rediscovers strength in stillness. Murti means body, and this mudra brings your hands low, below your navel, directing your breath and awareness into the base of you, where your foundation already is. Your strength in physical form. Murti lengthens your spine and your exhales, so steadiness and comfort can exist in the same moment. Your worth settles here on its own, not because you proved anything, but because your body finally stopped trying to prove it so you can instead FEEL it.
BENEFITS:
Sends your breath and awareness into the base of your body, where your foundation lives
Lengthens your exhale so your belly can breathe slowly and completely
Lengthens your spine and supports your posture
Improves circulation to your eliminatory system
Deepens your body awareness, which supports your whole musculoskeletal system
Helps you live in your body more fully as you find your own support there
Grounds you and connects you to the Earth beneath you
Builds steadiness and ease
Settles you into deep calm so you can cultivate focus
Lets you feel the equanimity that is already yours
Invites a deep inner peace
Activates your Apana vayu, your downward moving current of energy
Opens and balances your Muladhara (root chakra), your center of safety
Connects to the Earth element
HOW:
Find a comfortable seat.
Press your palms together and interlace your fingers outside the hands.
Cross your right thumb on top of your left and extend your pinky fingers together.
Rest this below your navel or in your lap.
Soften your shoulders and align your spine.
BREATHE:
Potential in Stillness:
Inhale deeply through your nose as you fill your belly. Pause and embrace the still place at the top of your inhale. Exhale fully through your nose as you surrender your belly. Pause and embrace the still place at the bottom of the exhale. Continue to be in the still places between the breaths for 3 to 5 minutes.
MANTRA:
Repeat silently or aloud:
I anchor into stillness and allow space for transformation.
Centered in my body, I reclaim my worth.
I open fully to the beauty and abundance already within and around me.
EMBODY YOUR RELEASE:
When your practice feels complete, release control of your breath and let your hands rest anywhere on your body that feels comforting. Feel the Earth beneath you and the steady drumbeat of your heart. Steadiness from the matter of the Earth AND the matter of your body at the same time. Notice what feels softer, lighter, or more at ease when you have steadiness to trust.
Let the Taurus Full Moon illuminate what is ready to be released, the comfort you have outgrown but keep choosing because it is familiar, the belief that you must always be doing to be worthy, and the beauty you walk past every day (in the mirror too) without stopping to take it in. Allow enoughness to replace earning. Feel it in your body.
Invite your body to settle. Invite your worth to stay. Invite the beauty to be noticed.
As you release, may you remember that stillness is not the pause before your transformation, it is where your transformation happens.
May this Taurus Full Moon support you in letting your stillness transform you, embodying your own worth, and sensing the abundant beauty already within and around you.
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