If you type "yoga" into your search engine and look for images, you're likely to come across someone standing in Natarajasana (Dancer Pose)-lifted heart, arched back, reaching one hand back to hold a ...

You can practice yoga mudras to help you fall asleep. Research also suggests mudras can help with asthma, inflammation, and high blood pressure. These practices included mudras, or hand gestures meant ...

Bharat Thakur guides you through the practices of this ancient Indian discipline Add as a preferred source on Google The Sanskrit word mudra literally means seal. Mudras can be described as psychic, ...

Mudras are hand gestures or hand signs that are used in meditation and yoga to channel our inner energy flow and improve mental focus. These hand positions are believed to stimulate specific areas of ...

As with any new wellness practice, it's essential to approach Shunya Mudra with an open mind and consistency to experience its full effects over time. Shunya Mudra Benefits: Shunya Mudra is a hand ...

Bharat Thakur guides you through the practices of this ancient Indian discipline In the previous weeks, I have explained how mudras can work on the body, brain, mind and the energy system. The ...

Extending all your fingers outward. Sliding your right palm over your left. Hooking both thumbs together. Placing this gesture over your Heart Chakra. The Garuda Mudra symbolises freedom, protection, ...

The human body is made up of five elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Space. Imbalance in any one of these five elements leads to ill health The human body is made up of five elements: Earth, Air, ...

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article first appeared in the December 2002 issue of Yoga Journal.