11/20/2023
Padma Mudra | Gesture of the Lotus 🪷
Helps heal the heart and strengthen’s self-love. Supports our cardio-respiratory and immune systems. Helps cultivate unconditional love, compassion and empathy. Can be helpful during times of depression.
The word mudra means, “a seal, or sealing posture”. Mudras balance the subtle energy field and energy network within and around the body.
Padma means ‘lotus’ in Sanskrit. This mudra directs our breath and energy to the front the chest, supporting the opening of the anahata (❤️) chakra. It helps to teach/remind us to see through the eyes of our heart and respond from a place of empathy and compassion rather than judgement or reaction. As our subtle heart begins to open, compassion becomes easeful and universal love naturally arises.
If you’d like to give it a try…
~ Bring your palms together and place your thumbs along your sternum.
~ Keeping the little fingers and thumbs together, open the middle, ring and index fingers, forming the shape of an unfolding lotus.
~ Exhale from the base of your skull, down the back of the neck, between the shoulder blades and out into the Earth.
~ Inhale into the fullness of your heart.
~ Release and set free any thoughts of judgement or self-doubt.
~ Repeat this affirmation 8-10 times (or as many times as you wish): I allow myself to hold compassion and empathy. I give space for unconditional love to be present.
~ When you’re ready, feel where your thumbs are resting against your sternum— inhale gently, and completely.
Feel free to share how this mudra feels for you in the comments.
Sending you gentle heart hugs, compassion and love. 🫶🏻🌷
