What are Mudras?

Mudras are yoga postures held with the hands. Each posture contains an energetic charge which channels Rasa or pure life force through the interconnectedness of the fingers creating a watershed of vitality. This can be called upon to restore and replenish that which is depleted or out of balance.
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Ray of Peace

Prajna Kriya Mudra

• Sit comfortably
• Bend the index finger to touch the lower joint of the thumb, gently presing the nail of the index finger against the lower joint of the thumb. Extend the other fingers resting the backs of your hands on your knees or thighs.
• Close eyes
• Brings about a deep sense of tranquility and peace.
  Works with the 1st and 2nd chakras to establish rootedness, security and connection.

Meditation

• Seated position, focus on an unhurried natural breath.
• Feel yourself fill from the depth of your belly up through spaciousness of the lungs,opening the chest and clearing the heart center.
• Follow the breath with all of your awareness, gently observing the sensations in the body and the quality of the mind.
• Deepen the experience of peace by allowing the exhalation to become slightly longer than the inhalation.
  This encourges lower blood pressure , slower heart rate, and induces the relaxation response.

Asana- Balasana/Childs Pose

Rest in Balasana "Childs Pose" to complete your practice of peace:

• Sit back on your heels. Slowly spill your upperbody over your lap bringing your forehead to the floor.
• Separate your knees a little wider than your hips making room for the abdomen to expand with each breath. Allow the hips to be heavy, sinking towards the heels continually lengthening through the lowest portion of your back..
• Now stretch both hands forward untill arms are at at their fulll length and you can feel the sides of your upper body open and your back relax. Feel tension melt away- falling right off the tip of your tailbone with each exhalation.
• Rest here until you feel complete. Slowly return to seated.

Ray of Hope

Ushas Mudra

• Sit comfortably
• Men-Interlace all fingers with the right thumb resting on top of the left thumb.
• Women- Interlace all fingers with the left thumb over the right and the left index finger over the right.
• Rest hands in lap infront of abdomen. Close eyes
• Brings about a general sense of well being, satisfaction and serenity, grounding while facilating the release of endophines. Genlty uplifting, this Mudra is good for new beginnings, supplying strength to move through our experiences with an attitude of possibility. What is hope other than belief in finding the next step, a clear path, the right idea, a fresh start, a new day.

Meditation

• Sit comfortably with eyes closed, hands resting in front of your low abdomen or in lap.
• As your breath imagine that each inhalation kindles a delicate light in the bowl of your hands. Visualise that light growing into a a soft red sun filling your hands and abdomen with pleasurable warmth. With each cycle of breath feel, sense, and observe the Sun rising slowly skywards illumunating your inner being with all the glorious colors of dawn. Absorb these energies and set your intention for the day big or small. Smile.

Asana

Apanasana/Knees to chest pose

• Lie down on your back and fold both knees in towards your chest.
• Wrap your arms around both knees.
• Use a deep natural breath. Let each breath be full and unhurried. Let the body/mind follow and absorb the sense of spaciousness and freedom that comes with the inhalation and the peace and release that follows the exhalation. As you exhale, let go of all you no longer need to carry with you letting go of extra or excess.
• As you inhale become ligther , freer , opening to all positive change and possibility.

Ray of Love

Pushpaputa Mudra

• Sit comfortably
• Cup hands and bring the sides of the little fingers and tips of ringfingers together, forming hands in a loose bowl.
• Close eyes
• Brings about feelings of openess, ease in giving and recieving, supports a heart open to love and full of compassion, heals emotional wounds.

Meditation

• Sit comfortably with hands at the level of the heart. Sense the empty places inside your palms. Gradually tune into the sensations of warmth, coolness, whatever is there.
• Inhale - as if through your crown and Exhale from your heart into the palms of your hands. You can imagine your hands as holding an offerring of the heart, a gift
  from your spirit , filling them with loving intention and prayerful purpose.
• Continue with the breath focused in through the crown and out from the heart into your hands. Visualise, feel , experience your hands filling with warm sensation.
• Visualise energy growing as light or any other treasure you see coming to rest in your offering bowl. Make a clear intention, a heart wish and allow it to grow as you observe and feel your hands glowing with the power to make manifest these gifts from a place of highest love.
• When you are ready speak your wish out loud sending your love wherever and to whom ever it best serves...including yourself. Place your hands over your heart and rest for a few minute in quiet reflection.

Asana

Bhujangasana/Cobra pose

• Lie on your belly resting on your chin.
• Draw your tailblone slightly under, place palms down beneath your shoulders.
• Inhale- feel your spine lengthen towards your crown as you gently press down into your palms.
• Draw elbows into sides of body, roll shoulders back and away from ears.
• Lift gaze upwards through the point between your brows.
• Hold for several cycles of breath developing strength, confidence,patience and focus as your heart
  learns to open fully.
• Exhale and come back to the support of the earth beneath you. Your heart center absorbing nurture and peace.
• Repeat 3-5 times before resting back in
  Child's pose to finish

Ray of Prana

Surya Mudra

• Sit comfortably
• Bend ring finger down to touch the lowest part of the thumb. With gentle firmness press the thumb on top to secure ring finger.
• Rest hands on knees or thighs.
• Close eyes
• Brings about a steady focused mind, inviting energy and self confidence, feel the radiance of your being.
  Works with the latent healing energies of the 3rd chakra to stimulate the open circulation of golden inner sunlight throughout the body/mind as pure prana or life force energy.

Meditation

• Allow the breath to become full and smooth, flowing from inhalation to exhalation effortlessly.Let your awareness rest on the breath, following its journey as it ebbs and flows from inward focus to outward expanse.
• Visualise, feel or experience drawing your breath in through your navel center/3rd chakra. As you exhale, visualise, feel or experience the part of you that is your breath flowing out ward in concentric circles; your awareness full of golden sunlight expanding outwards to touch all directions from your center.

Asana

To continue to spead gentle energy and healing light throughout the body/mind ground your experience through a short practice of Cakravakasana after your meditation.

Cakravakasana:

• Begin on hands and knees. Hands placed a shoulder width apart with wrists below the shoulders. Knees a hip width apart below the hips.
• Inhale- flex your spine making a deep valley of your back while lifting your heart up and away from your belly, lifting your head last.
• Exhale- gently draw the tailbone under while rounding your back fully. Drop yourhead last.
• Repeat several times or until you feel complete.
• Sit back on heels and absorb your practice.

Rasa

Mudra

• Bring your hands together in front of your abdomen. Interlace your fingers so that the right thumb rests over your left.
• Extend your left thumb and circle it with your right thumb and index finger.
• Press your hands gently together and extend upwards through the length of your left thumb.

This mudra is a powerful healing force. It combats colds, flus and viruses. It stimulates the digestive, elimination, immune, endocrine and reproductive systems. Inviting the whole body / mind to health, harmony and energetic balance. Linga Mudra works with your 2nd and 3rd chakras and assists in using your creative force to manifest that which you wish in your life. Its effect is purifying, bringing great clarity to the mind and emotions.

Meditation

• Sit comfortably.
• Bring your hands into Linga Mudra and let them rest in front of your abdomen. Drop your awareness into the flow and feeling of each breath. This brings you into real contact with the essence of your life force energy.
• As you breathe-imagine a spark of light brightening and expanding with the touch of each inhalation. As this becomes easy for you to visualize, move your awareness to any area of physical or emotional discomfort or disease.
• Place your spark of light like a seed into the heart of the area you wish to purify. If it is a feeling like depression, where do you feel this in your body? What does it feel like? Where does it live? If it is anger, jealousy, unforgiveness or any other emotion you would like to draw the purifying light of clarity to; ask yourself the same questions and plant the seed of your intention there.
• Now breath it open. Follow each breath outwards to its edges until the intensity of the feeling and it's body association begin to dissapate. If it is a physical complaint move your awareness to rest in the heart of the afflicted area repeat the same technique of breath, focus and visualization.

Strength

Mudra – Shivalingam Mudra

• Sit comfortably.
• Hold your left hand with your palm slightly cupped and turned upwards level with your abdomen.
• Make a fist with your right hand but with the thumb extended upwards.
• Rest your right hand in the palm of your left hand.
• Close your eyes and drop into a deep natural breath. Holding this Mudra for 1 to 5 minutesto both center and recharge your entire being. Works with your 1st, 3rd, and 4th chakras creating a strong sense of connection to your own personal power. Instills trust, confidence and makes one unshakable in the face of life's challenges. Strength lies with in - Seek it

 

Meditation

• At first simply hold the Mudra in your hands and tune into your breathing. Note the sensation of each breath as it comes and goes.
• By tuning more and more deeply into the sensory feeling of each breath, you invite the mind to free itself from all external chatter and slow itself to the present moment.
• You will find yourself entering into an intimate experience of your own essential life force and energy. Feel it expand as you inhale and deepen as you exhale.
• As you become centered in your focus on each breath and comfortable in your body add this focus to the breath:
• Inhale-as if through your navel center.
• Exhale- as if down and through the relaxed weight of your lower body steady and rooted to the Earth.
• Inhale- feel the life force energy of the breath rising up to meet you as if from below your body to travel upwards through the length of your spine.
• Exhale-allowing your awareness to ride the breath down and out as if reaching through deepening roots into the heart center of the Earth.
• ...continue with this focused meditation for 5 minutes or more. As you finish, release your fingers form the mudra Allow your breathing to return to it's natural flow Enjoy sitting with yourself as is. Observe, absorb, and reflect on what is present here and now in this new balance of mind, body and emotions.

Asana

Try holding this Mudra at the level of your abdomen in Tadasana / Mountain Pose

Mountain Pose / Tadasana:

• Stand with your bare feet together, instep to instep.
• Imagine the inhaled breath flowing up the front of your body lifting your heart and elongating your spine.
• Imagine the exhalation pouring down your back, relaxing your shoulders and sending weight right down through your feet.
• Feel your self held and balanced inside the continued cycle of each breath.
• Look straight ahead, let your arms stretch out along your sides with your palms turned towards your thighs.
• Lightly lift your kneecaps.
• Gently draw your navel in and up lifting your chest as well.
• Relax your shoulders. Feel the whole surface of each foot steady on the floor.
• Brings your hands together into Shivalingam Mudra at the level of your abdomen. Be here for 1 - 3 minutes.

This posture with the additional energetic boost from Shivalingam Mudra is quietly powerful. It can assist in reducing stress, lifting depression, boosting self confidence , and freeing the energies of the heart center as your sternum is lifted and open. The balance of the overall posture creates a state of centered focused awareness.

Joy

Garuda Mudra

• Sit comfortably.
• Cross your arms in front of your chest with your right arm under and your left arm over. Your palms will face towards your heart.
• Hook your thumbs together at the top thumb joint. The right thumb joint will wrap towards the front. Your hands connected by your thumbs make wings.
• Fan your fingers out as if spreading your feathers out to fly.
• Close your eyes

Brings about feelings of openness, freedom and joy. Breaks through lethargy or a sense of stuckness in life and brings one back to a place free of pure potential, free of perceived limitations

This mudra works with the physical aspects of your immune, respiratory, endocrine, and circulatory systems and opens up the back of the heart.

Meditation

• Sit comfortably and move your hands into Garuda Mudra.
• Hold your hands at the level of your heart center.
• Close your eyes and begin to follow the trail of your breath. As you become comfortable and your mind becomes absorbed in the present moment of each breath direct your awareness to your heart center. Imagine each Inhalation moving through the wing shape of your hands and into the feather tips of your fingers.
• Sense the energy as it continues to expand with each cycle of breath. Now take the focus deeper. Imagine these wings inside your heart. Sense, feel, and follow the expanding energy with your awareness as each inhalation fills the lungs and opens the heart.
• Observe as feelings of unlimited openness and the lightness of joy begin to penetrate your heart, mind, and emotions.
• Imagine the energy from the heart center to slowly expand upwards through the throat center.
• Visualize the mudra you are holding in your hands to be present there, nestled wings in the soft hollow at the base of your throat, clearing the air and giving light and sweetness to your communications.
• Try chanting Aum softly- Extend the mmmmmm sound at the end by keeping your lips together. Send the vibration to resonate throughout your heart and throat centers. Allow the light of this vibration and the mudra to clear your heart and mind of anything hindering your ability to know true joy

Asnana: Viparita Karani / Legs up the wall pose

You can maximize the restorative benefits of this posture by adding a couple of props. Use 2 firm bolsters. If you do not have them try stacking two telephone books and covering those with 2 pillows and wrapping them all in a blanket for stability.

• Place your bolster snug against a wall. Use your hands for support behind you as you sit sideways on the bolster and move your legs and feet upright against the wall.
• Slowly lower your back, shoulders and head to the floor.
• Press your hands to the floor to move your buttocks closer to the wall.
• Straighten your legs and rest your heels against the wall. With your head and neck resting on the floor lift your chest, opening the heart.
• Spread your arms out to the sides with your palms turned skywards.
• Allow tension to leave the pelvis, abdomen, and chest. Experience the freedom that comes from perfect support in this posture as stress dissolves into serenity and serenity opens the way to feelings of limitlessness. This posture boosts confidence, reduces depression, and supports recovery from nervous exhaustion