Tejas Mudra: own your radiance, trust your heart to open, and live devoted to love
You get to live with your heart wide open.
Tejas Mudra is a gesture of radiance, trust, and devotional love. It helps you find the trust to open your heart wide, and it tends the old wounds you find there so there is room for new joy, new optimism, and new love to move in.
When your heart gets wounded, you tend to guard it. Often without ever consciously deciding to. It is a tender, intelligent act of protection. But the same walls that keep the hurt out keep the love and the joy out, too. Tejas Mudra helps you soften those walls on your own terms, trusting yourself enough to let your heart be both open and safe.
This is the light side of Cancer Season. Underneath the protective shell this water sign is known for lives an enormous capacity for tenderness, devotion, and care. Consider Tejas Mudra your invitation to receive that softness and let it radiate back out. This mudra connects you to the air and fire elements and gives some love to your heart chakra, your anahata, so you can trust your own warmth and let it shine.
You can return to this mudra anytime you want to feel into trust, radiance, and the kind of love that asks nothing of you. Embrace that with this hand shape and these tools to support its intention.
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🫶🏻 MUDRA: Tejas Mudra
Benefits of Tejas Mudra:
devotional love
optimism
affection
nurture old wounds of your heart center
nourishment through compassion
radiance
trust
peace
connection to the air and fire elements
connection to your anahata or heart chakra
Why practice Tejas Mudra:
To radiate unconditional love and optimism from the inside out. It tends old wounds with compassion so you can trust yourself and find a deep and true sense of peace.
How to practice Tejas Mudra:
Find a comfortable seat. Add support if you’d like. Bring your hands to prayer in front of your heart. Keep your thumbs aligned and touching. Join the tips of your index fingers to each other to form a circle around your thumbs. Keep your wrists together and open your other fingers. Hold your elbows slightly away from your body, soften your shoulders, and align your spine.
🧘🏻♀️ MEDITATION: Heart Opening Meditation
WHY:
This mudra meditation helps you trust the process of opening your heart, so you can heal old wounds and welcome new joy. Let it meet you exactly where you are today.
PLACE:
Find a comfortable seat. Perhaps sit on a bolster or blanket to get your hips a little higher than your knees.
MUDRA:
Find Tejas Mudra by bringing your hands to prayer in front of your heart. Keep your thumbs aligned and touching. Join the tips of your index fingers to each other to form a circle around your thumbs. Keep your wrists together and open your other fingers. Hold your elbows slightly away from your body, soften your shoulders, and align your spine.
DRISHTI:
Focus your gaze towards the tip of your nose if it feels comfortable.
PRANAYAMA:
Breathe deeply in and out through your nose. Continue for 3-5 minutes.
MANTRA:
Invitation to mentally work with the mantra Hummee Hum Brahm Hum as you are here. This mantra helps you joyfully open your heart so you can connect with yourself and others. You can also choose any other mantra that resonates with your heart too.
TO END:
Inhale deeply and pause with the breath. Release it fully. Repeat two more times. With your last exhale, release control of the breath and the mudra and breathe freely as you sit and reflect on your experience.
✨ MANTRA:
I am devoted to living with my heart wide open
I hope you trust yourself so you can live with your heart wide open!
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