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APANA MUDRA

Join the tips of your middle and ring fingers to the tip of your thumb. This mudra may help you to eliminate impurities from your body: excreta, urine, sweat. It particularly works with your kidneys, problems with gas in the digestive system, constipation and piles, and diseases related to your mouth, nose, ears and eyes. There are indications that can enhance the health of your teeth, and perhaps help you to control diabetes.

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Added by Swami Saradananda on July 22, 2011 at 10:08am — 2 Comments

PRANA MUDRA

Bring the tip of your little and ring fingers to tip of thumb; relax the other two fingers. Bringing these three fingers together creates a special flow of prana that rejuvenates your body and mind.

Prana is basic vital energy within the body. This mudra can increase vitality if practiced regularly. It may help to strengthen both… Continue

Added by Swami Saradananda on July 20, 2011 at 3:15pm — No Comments

Dhyana mudra

Rest your hands in your lap with the right hand on top of your left with both palms upward. Bring the tips of the two thumbs together gently.

This mudra brings increased power to your meditation and you in attaining self-realization.

Extensive practice is said to create a powerful aura around your face, which is noticed by and has a positive effect on everybody who… Continue

Added by Swami Saradananda on June 23, 2011 at 6:04pm — 1 Comment

Bhairava mudra

Rest your hands in your lap. Place your right hand on top of the left with both palms facing upward.
In Indian mythology, Bhairava is fierce form of Siva.

The joined hands represent the union of the ida and pingala nadis (meridians) – or the equalization of the two hemispheres of the brain.

Added by Swami Saradananda on June 22, 2011 at 1:03am — No Comments

Mudras 2

Perhaps the best known mudra is “Namaskar” which signifies “the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you”

Added by Swami Saradananda on May 27, 2011 at 5:48pm — No Comments

Nadanusandhana

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This is a wonderful practice combining mudras and mantras that I plan to teach at the "Spiritual Retreat" that I will be leading in Bad Meinberg 1-6 August

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Sit in any meditative position and close your eyes.

“Aaa” chanting…

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Added by Swami Saradananda on July 4, 2010 at 11:51am — No Comments

Tools for Meditation: mudras

Your body is a subtle and powerful antenna that is continually receiving energy and also transmitting it. Mantra, mudra and mandala are three types of powerful spiritual tools that assist you in purifying your physical, mental and psychic bodies.

With regular practice, these methods sharpen and expand your spiritual wisdom. They help you to…

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Added by Swami Saradananda on June 29, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments