Mudras - Yoga in Your Hands

Author: Gertrud Hirschi
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 223
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-7030-682-5

Description

Mudras-also playfully called finger power points- are yoga positions for hands and fingers. They can be practiced sitting, lying down, standing, or walking, at any time and place! Schooled in the traditional knowledge of this Eastern art of healing, Gertrud Hirschi, the well-known Swiss yoga teacher and author of BasicYoga for Everybody, shows how these easy techniques can recharge personal energy reserves and improve quality of living. These mysterious healing gestures calm the stress, aggravations, and frustrations of everyday life.

How you can apply these simple exercises to prevent illness and support the healing of a great variety of physical and emotional problems.

How to use mudras to promote your spiritual development.

How you can additionally intensify the effect with breathing exercises, affirmations, visualizations, herbs, nutrition, music, and colors.

Also included are several full-body mudras and exercises to enhance your meditation and yoga practice.

Contents

Specific Mudras

Acknowledgments

Dear Reader

PART ONE
Exploring the Mudra Concept

PART TWO
THE MUDRAS

Part Three
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

APPENDICES

A. Nutrition
B. There is an Herb for Every Malady
C. Chinese Five Element Theory
D. Some Words About the Chakras

A CLOSING WORD

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR