Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of Yoga mudras. In yoga , mudrās are used in conjunction with pranayama (yogic breathing exercises), generally while seated in Padmasana , Ardhasiddhasana , Sukhasana or Vajrasana pose, to stimulate different parts of the body and mind, and to affect the flow of prana in the body.
[1] [2] It presents 6 cleansing methods, 84 asanas, 24 mudras and 8 kumbhakas. [3] The text is illustrated in an 1830 manuscript with 84 paintings of asanas , prepared about a hundred years after the text.
Dhāraṇā (Sanskrit: धारणा) is the sixth limb of eight elucidated by Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga or Raja Yoga in his Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. [1] It is directing and maintaining the mind's attention to a specific location of the body after sense-witdrawal has been attained.
Vajroli mudra (Sanskrit: वज्रोली मुद्रा vajrolī mudrā), the Vajroli Seal, is a practice in Hatha yoga which requires the yogi to preserve his semen, either by learning not to release it, or if released by drawing it up through his urethra from the vagina of "a woman devoted to the practice of yoga". [1] The mudra was ...
[10] In Yogananda's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, he says that khecarī mudrā should be practiced only as instructed by one's guru. [23] According to Kriyananda, "The assumption of this mudra helps to hasten the advent of deep spiritual states of consciousness." [24] Sivananda described Khecarī Mudrā as "the best of all Mudras." [25]
Mode of action of bandhas and mudras, serving to trap energy-fluids (breath, prana, bindu, amrita) and thus help to unblock the central sushumna channel.. A bandha (Sanskrit: बंध) is a kriyā in Hatha Yoga, being a kind of internal mudra described as a "body lock," [1] [2] to lock the vital energy into the body.
In the Upanishad, Vishnu states to Brahma that Yoga is one, [41] in practice of various kinds, the chief are of four types – Mantra Yoga is the practice through chants, Laya Yoga through deep concentration, Hatha Yoga through exertion, and Raja Yoga through meditation. [1]
Similarly, sections 3.20 and 5.25 of the Shiva Samhita includes mitahara as an essential part of a holistic Haṭha yoga practice. [62] Verses 1.57 through 1.63 of the critical edition of Haṭha Yoga Pradipika suggests that taste cravings should not drive one's eating habits, rather the best diet is one that is tasty, nutritious and likable as ...