Uttarabodhi Mudra: awaken your radiance, let your heart create your frequency, and consciously contribute unconditional love to the collective.

Choose the frequency you live in — and contribute to the world around you.

Uttarabodhi Mudra is a gesture of awakening, coherence, and heart–mind alignment. It invites you to become aware of the energetic tone you’re living from — not as something to perfect or perform, but as something you can gently choose and embody. This practice is especially resonant with Aquarius energy, which highlights collective awareness, compassion, and conscious contribution — yet its wisdom is one you can return to anytime you want to align your presence with love and intention.

Rather than focusing on doing more or becoming something new, this mudra invites reflection on how you are being. The frequency you carry — through your breath, posture, thoughts, and emotional state — naturally ripples into your relationships, environments, and the collective field. When you soften into presence, belonging, and compassion, that frequency becomes the contribution.

The shape opens the upper chest, lungs, shoulders, and diaphragm, supporting the heart chakra and the air element. It helps stabilize your mind and emotions while cultivating clarity, courage, and a sense of higher perspective. With Uttarabodhi Mudra, awareness expands without leaving the body — allowing love, integrity, and purpose to move together as one embodied experience.

Practice this mudra anytime you want to reconnect with your heart, steady your inner world, and consciously choose the frequency you live from. Small shifts in presence create powerful ripples — and your way of being truly matters.

Check out ways to practice mudras live with our empowering yoga community on our live class schedule!

PS: This was also our mudra for Imbolc, so check out other ways to work with it here!

Uttarabodhi Mudra illustrated in white line art on a muted purple background, with text reading “awakened radiance • heart frequency • conscious contribution” and Katrina Marie Yoga branding below.

🫶🏻MUDRA: Uttarabodhi

Benefits of Uttarabodhi Mudra:

· supports awakening, higher vision, and self-mastery
· cultivates unconditional love and compassion
· stabilizes the mind and emotions
· supports integrity, authenticity, and clarity
· encourages freedom, inspiration, and courage
· strengthens heart–mind connection
· supports the heart chakra/anahata and upper chest
· opens the lungs and diaphragm and supports the thymus and immune system
· releases tension through the arms and shoulders
· connects to the air element and collective awareness
· supports purpose, contribution, and the collective good

Why practice Uttarabodhi Mudra:

Practice Uttarabodhi Mudra to consciously align with the frequency you are contributing to the collective — cultivating clarity, compassion, and love while remaining grounded in your own body, breath, and presence. This mudra supports choosing your energetic imprint with intention and integrity.

How to practice Uttarabodhi Mudra:

Find a comfortable seated place. Interlace your fingers with your left little finger on the bottom. Extend your index fingers straight up together and your thumbs straight down together. Hold this shape gently in front of your heart. Soften your shoulders and naturally align your spine.

🧘🏻‍♀️MEDITATION: Frequency Metta Meditation

WHY:

Practice this meditation to become aware of the frequency you live in and contribute — supporting compassion, belonging, and conscious participation in the collective field through embodied presence.

PLACE:

Find any comfortable seat. Add support under your sit bones if that feels comfortable.

MUDRA:

Invitation to bring your hands into Uttarabodhi Mudra by interlacing your fingers with your left little finger on the bottom. Extend your index fingers straight up together and your thumbs straight down together. Hold this shape gently in front of your heart. Soften your shoulders and naturally align your spine.

DRISHTI:

Invitation to soften or close your eyes if it feels safe.

PRANAYAMA:

Allow your breath to move naturally through the nose, without effort or control.

MANTRA + VISUALIZATION:

PART 1 — SELF — imagine looking at yourself and offering yourself these mantras.

May I live in a frequency of safety.
May I live in a frequency of peace.
May I live in a frequency of compassion.
May I live in a frequency of connection.
May I live in a frequency of love.

PART 2 — OTHER Choose anyone — beloved, neutral, difficult, or in need of repair — and offer them these mantras

May you feel my frequency of safety.
May you feel my frequency of peace.
May you feel my frequency of compassion.
May you feel my frequency of connection.
May you feel my frequency of love.

PART 3 — COLLECTIVE HUMANITY — visualize offering these mantras to the world

May humanity feel my frequency of safety.
May humanity feel my frequency of peace.
May humanity feel my frequency of compassion.
May humanity feel my frequency of connection.
May humanity feel my frequency of love.

PART 4 — CLOSING MANTRA — know that your frequency contributes so much to the collective

Love is the frequency I choose to live and contribute.

TO END:

Release any control of the breath and let your hands rest on your heart if it feels comfortable. Sit quietly with your natural breath and awareness, allowing the frequency you’ve cultivated to both settle and circulate within and radiate outward.

✨MANTRA:

Love is the frequency I choose to live and contribute.

Uttarabodhi Mudra illustrated in white line art on a muted purple background, with the affirmation “Love is the frequency I choose to live and contribute” centered above the hands.

May you choose to embody a frequency that naturally awakens unconditional love within you and humanity.

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