Mudras for Modern Life
Boost your health, re-energize your life, enhance your yoga and deepen your meditation
Published on 11. October 2016
160 pages
978-1-78028-889-5 (ISBN)
Description
Discover how to integrate more than 60 mudras into your daily life for increased vitality and inner peace
Mudras are an ancient and often overlooked Eastern practice that involves making established hand gestures which direct subtle energy to boost health and wellbeing. This definitive, fully illustrated guide to the art of mudras provides a highly practical and inspirational overview of how to use these subtle and beautiful gestures to revitalize every aspect of your life, not just in your yoga or meditation practice.
The introduction lays the foundation for mudra practice with chapters showing why and how to do the mudras themselves. Chapters are also dedicated to different parts of the hand and their corresponding elements, illustrating holistic benefits, like boosting inner strength, relieving stress, enhancing creativity, and increasing concentration. Each mudra entry includes an accompanying chant, meditation, pranayama, asana, or visualization.
Mudras for Modern Life also provides a series of highly useful mudra routines for a range of both physical and emotional health issues from anxiety and chronic fatigue to arthritis and headaches.
Mudras are an ancient and often overlooked Eastern practice that involves making established hand gestures which direct subtle energy to boost health and wellbeing. This definitive, fully illustrated guide to the art of mudras provides a highly practical and inspirational overview of how to use these subtle and beautiful gestures to revitalize every aspect of your life, not just in your yoga or meditation practice.
The introduction lays the foundation for mudra practice with chapters showing why and how to do the mudras themselves. Chapters are also dedicated to different parts of the hand and their corresponding elements, illustrating holistic benefits, like boosting inner strength, relieving stress, enhancing creativity, and increasing concentration. Each mudra entry includes an accompanying chant, meditation, pranayama, asana, or visualization.
Mudras for Modern Life also provides a series of highly useful mudra routines for a range of both physical and emotional health issues from anxiety and chronic fatigue to arthritis and headaches.
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Swami Saradananda is an internationally renowned yoga and meditation teacher who has inspired thousands of people to practice. She has been teaching for almost forty years, and is the author of a number of books, including The Power of Breath,Chakra Meditation Relax and Unwind with Yoga, Yoga Mind and Body, The Essential Guide to Chakras and the upcoming Mudras for Modern Life.
For 26 years, she worked with the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and directed their facilities in New York, London, New Delhi and the Himalayas. After an extended period of personal practice in the Himalayas in 2001, she was author in residence at the Peacemaker Community in Western Massachusetts, and she then went on to direct yoga and meditation retreat Haus Yoga Vidya, just outside of Cologne, Germany. For the past few years, she has lived between London and New York but she spends several months each year teaching in Germany and several more in India.
Swami Saradananda teaches yoga worldwide, leads pilgrimages to India and writes extensively. She is also a trustee of the Ganga Prem Hospice, a charity that is seeking to build a cancer hospice in Rishikesh, North India.
For 26 years, she worked with the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and directed their facilities in New York, London, New Delhi and the Himalayas. After an extended period of personal practice in the Himalayas in 2001, she was author in residence at the Peacemaker Community in Western Massachusetts, and she then went on to direct yoga and meditation retreat Haus Yoga Vidya, just outside of Cologne, Germany. For the past few years, she has lived between London and New York but she spends several months each year teaching in Germany and several more in India.
Swami Saradananda teaches yoga worldwide, leads pilgrimages to India and writes extensively. She is also a trustee of the Ganga Prem Hospice, a charity that is seeking to build a cancer hospice in Rishikesh, North India.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- What mudras can do for you
- Accessing your energy
- Mudras and chakras
- Mudras and the elements
- Mudras and doshas
- Integrating mudras into your life
- 1. Hand Health and Wellbeing: Increasing flexibility and reducing stress
- Power in your hands
- Simple hand massage
- Finger exercises
- Hand exercises
- Shoulder exercises
- 2. Fire Mudras: Boosting inner strength and self-esteem
- Introducing the fire mudras
- Agni Mudra: Fire Gesture
- Guru Mudra: Jupiter Gesture
- Manipura Mudra: Solar Plexus Chakra Gesture
- Linga Mudra: Mark of Siva
- Surya Mudra: Sun Seal
- Pushan Mudra: Giver of Good Health
- Kamajayi Mudra: Victory over Excessive Desires Gesture
- Ashva-ratna Mudra: Jewelled Horse Gesture
- Adho-mukha Mudra: Downward-facing Gesture
- Shankha Mudra: Conch Shell Gesture
- Pitta-pacifying Mudra: Excess Heat-reducing Gesture
- Pitta-energizing Mudra: Blues-banishing Gesture
- Dhyana Mudra: Meditation Gesture
- 3. Air Mudras: Encouraging freedom, joy and stress relief
- Introducing the air mudras
- Vayu Mudra: Air Gesture
- Anahata Mudra: Heart Chakra Gesture
- Padma Mudra: Lotus Gesture
- Hridaya Mudra: Compassionate Heart Gesture
- Chin Mudra: Unrestricted Consciousness Gesture
- Vyana Mudra: Expansive Prana Gesture
- Garuda Mudra: Eagle Gesture
- Granthita Mudra: Knot Gesture
- Pranapana Mudra: Taking In and Throwing Out Gesture
- Kshepana Mudra: Letting Go Gesture
- 4. Ether Mudras: Enhancing inner peace, self-expression and creativity
- Introducing the ether mudras
- Akasha Mudra: Touching the Void Gesture
- Shunya Mudra: Silence of the Void Gesture
- Vishuddha Mudra: Throat Chakra Gesture
- Udana Mudra: Upward-flying Energy Gesture
- Bhramara Mudra: Humming Bee Gesture
- Shanmukhi Mudra: Tuning into Silence Gesture
- Bhuchari Mudra: Gazing into the Void Gesture
- Nivedana Mudra: Deep Listening Gesture
- Kaleshwara Mudra: Lord of Time Gesture
- Sankalpa Mudra: Practice Intention Gesture
- Matangi Mudra: Guardian of Wisdom Gesture
- Kubera Mudra: Guardian of Wealth Gesture
- Surabhi Mudra: Wish-fulfilment Gesture
- Nadanasudhana: Four Mudras in a Chanting Practice
- 5. Earth Mudras: Encouraging stability and grounding
- Introducing the earth mudras
- Prithivi Mudra: Earth Gesture
- Bhumi-sparsha Mudra: Earth Witness Gesture
- Muladhara Mudra: Root Chakra Gesture
- Jnana Mudra: Wisdom Gesture
- Bhu Mudra: Touching the Earth Gesture
- Prana Mudra: Life-force Gesture
- Apana Mudra: Cleansing-energy Gesture
- Sthira Mudra: Steady and Stable Gesture
- Sukham Mudra: Stress-relief Gesture
- Vishnu Mudra: Universal Balance Gesture
- Kali Mudra: Black Goddess Gesture
- 6. Water Mudras: Enhancing health and equipping you to move forward
- Introducing the water mudras
- Varuna Mudra: Water-balancing Gesture
- Jalodar-nashak Mudra: Water-reducing Gesture
- Swadhisthana Mudra: Sacral Chakra Gesture
- Mahatrika Mudra: Great Triangle Gesture
- Shakti Mudra: Essence of Power Gesture
- Kilaka Mudra: Key to Good Health Gesture
- Karana Mudra: instrument Gesture
- Kurma Mudra: Tortoise Gesture
- Yoni Mudra: Seal of the Goddess
- Masiki Mudra: Monthly-relief Gesture
- Matsya Mudra: Fish Gesture
- Makara Mudra: Crocodile Gesture
- 7. Mind Mudras: Increasing concentration and clarity
- Introducing the mind mudras
- Activating the Palm Chakras: Sensitizing the Hands
- Ajna Mudra: Brow Chakra Gesture
- Nirvana Mudra: Liberation Gesture
- Bhairava Mudra: Fierce Determination Gesture
- Ganesha Mudra: Remover of Obstacles
- Namaskar Mudra: My Essence Meets Your Essence Gesture
- Anjali Mudra: Gesture of Offering
- Abhaya Mudra: Have No Fear Gesture
- Varada Mudra: Forgiveness Gesture
- Handshake as Mudra: Shared Gesture
- Hakini Mudra: Problem-solving Gesture
- Samasti Mudra: Integrating Brain Hemispheres Gesture
- Maha-shirsha Mudra: Overactive Mind Relief Gesture
- Mandala Mudra: Circle Universe Gesture
- Mushti Mudra: Closed-fist Gesture
- 8. Mudra Routines: Building optimal wellbeing
- Daily routine for wellbeing
- Headaches and migraines
- Digestive problems
- Menstrual problems
- Asthma and skin disorders
- Hay fever and allergies
- Arthritis and stiff joints
- Stress
- Anger
- Jet lag
- Insomnia
- Chronic fatigue
- Glossary
- Resources
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
