The Mudras Guide For Yoga

Mudras for enhance your yoga, your health and re-energize your life

This book is all about such mudras: hand gestures used to strengthen and purify mind, body and psyche by ensuring the free flow of natural healing energy, or prana, around your body to bring about radiant health and inner peace.

This book draws on this ancient Indian science, offering more than 70 mudras suited to modern life. There are mudras to boost mental acuity and calm you down; mudras for letting off steam and connecting to others; mudras to energize or relax; and mudras to ease symptoms of common ailments.

All are effective, easy to perform, and safe and simple to incorporate into your everyday routine.

In each mudra profile there is an introduction to help you choose why and when to practise, plus simple instructions for finger placement and notes on the effects of the gesture and how it works.

Each mudra has an extra practical feature: an idea for incorporating the mudra into a yoga, meditation or breathing practice, for example, or an accompanying chant or visualization to enhance its effects.

Start with any mudras that appeal to you or feel easy. You might choose one for its effect on body and mind, or because of its link to a certain time of day or recommended practice position