Mudra - by Indu Arora (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Discover the grounding power of mudras: 25 sacred hand gestures to guide your energy, and focus and calm your mind in the midst of daily life. With 25 instructional photos.

The third volume in the Yoga Masters Series, which offers the timeless wisdom of essential yoga practices for the contemporary seeker.

This concise guide to mudra, the subtle practice of sacred hand gestures, offers an inspiring and practical view on how to bring mudras into your yoga practice and into your everyday life. Many spiritual traditions incorporate hand gestures to calm the body, focus the mind, and set the intention in prayer or practice. Mudras in the yogic tradition also tap into the energy of the subtle body through channels called nadis. Stimulating the nadis balances and harmonizes the life current in the body, to maintain a healthy state of mind and body.

This manual offers Indu Arora's expert guidance and down-to-earth wisdom on exploring mudras. She draws from Yogic and Tantric texts, and offers techniques for using mudras with asana, praṇayama, and meditation practices for therapeutic purposes and everyday life. This book explores the following subjects:

• The purpose of mudra in yoga practice, and how you integrate mudra before, during, and after asana practice
• Mudras for therapeutic purposes such as dosha balance, digestion, sleep, immunity, and heart health, to regulate breathing, curb anxiety, and more
• How to use a mala in mudra practice
• Which mudras best support meditation
• And much more

About the Author

INDU ARORA is a yoga and Ayurveda teacher, mentor, and author. She has shared her knowledge of yoga philosophy, yoga therapy, and Ayurveda for the last two decades. She uniquely offers yoga and Ayurveda as a lifelong journey. She is inspired by and taught under Kriya Yoga, Himalayan Yoga, Kashmir Shiavism, and Sivananda Yoga lineages. She has studied in a traditional Guru-shishya parampara setting. Her teaching style is rooted in empowering and inspiring students to awaken the inner Guru. Her core philosophy is "Yoga is a Work-in and not a Work-out." She is the author of three other books on yoga.