Full Moon in Gemini

The energy of any full moon presents an opportunity to focus on gratitude, abundance, fullness and completion.  What are you grateful for in your life? What have you achieved or received that makes you feel full or complete?  This full moon in Gemini, ushering in the festive season and ushering out the close of a year and a decade, provides us with the perfect opportunity to celebrate.  Gather with friends, give thanks for all that you’ve done and all that you are.  Celebrate each other as you acknowledge the many gifts you’ve received during this lunar cycle, this year, this decade.  

What have you brought to fruition since the Sagittarius New Moon, when you set yourself clear and grounded intentions?  What will you look back and feel proud of over the year or the decade?  Bringing all this into consciousness and sharing it with others can help you really celebrate with the energy of this Gemini Full Moon. 

Moving forward into the new cycles, this full moon asks you to contemplate your grandest vision of yourself and hold that vision in your heart to bring it to fruition.

Gemini brings physical awareness to your shoulders, arms and hands; and energetic awareness to your heart chakra.  Green is the colour of this chakra, and many people bring the evergreen trees and leaves into their homes at this time of year with Christmas trees, holly wreaths and solstice altar decorations.  Even better if you can take some time to walk outdoors in places where the green still lingers, in parks or woodlands, on hills or moors.  

Breathe deeply and feel your heart chakra expand with your feet rooted into the earth.  Open your arms out wide and feel your shoulders anchoring you into the connection with your heart.  As you inhale and expand, know that your heart is supporting you; that the energy of love is spreading out through your arms, hands and fingers.  As you exhale, lower your hands and send that love all the way down into the earth through your feet.  Making the sound of ‘YAM’ or ‘MA’ while you’re doing this will also help to activate your heart chakra vibration.

How Luna Rhythms Yoga can support you during this Gemini Full Moon:

At Luna Rhythms, our unique system of yoga integrated with the lunar cycles and solar seasons teaches techniques from the ancient yogic practices of asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha and mantra in alignment with the energies of the day, season and cycle. 

Try practising the Camel Pose, Ustrasana.  This pose really gets you feeling into the deep supportive connection between your shoulders and your heart.  In this pose, your heart centre supports the expansion out, back and down through your shoulders, while your shoulders support the opening and upward expansion of your heart.  

Kneeling up with your knees hip width and your shins pressed firmly into the floor for support, lengthen your spine upwards and begin to extend it back.  Take your hands onto the back of your hips for support, or bring your fingers or hands to touch your heels in the full pose.  Allow the feeling of expansion in your throat to support your head back.  In this pose, you should be finding length and extension through the spine.  If you are feeling compression or collapse in the small of your back or in your neck, please take the supported variation or come out of the pose.  

Notice the opening through your heart that continues through your shoulders and arms to the tips of your fingers.  Notice the sense of support that your shoulders are giving to your chest, allowing your heart to expand.  Breathe here, finding ease in the breath as much as possible.  And when you feel ready, ease yourself out of the pose by bringing back one hand at a time.  Move into Child’s Pose as a counter posture to release your spine. 

Luna Rhythms Yoga is based on a range of different techniques from the yogic tradition that enable you to embody and integrate the monthly and daily rhythms of the lunar cycle, ensuring that your practice is always in alignment with exactly what you need when you need it.

To find out more about these practices and how you can get involved check out our Classes, Retreats and the Luna Rhythms Foundation Course. Feeling the call? The inaugural Luna Rhythms Yoga Teacher Training Course will run in March 2020, in Orgiva, Spain. Join us!