These are a series of simple yet effective mudras, which if practiced daily can keep you healthy for life. Yoga has tremendous healing power and can cure all major diseases, if performed properly. It also offers happiness.

'Hastmudras' provide energy to the body which helps in the purification process, and so keeps the body healthy. Though these mudras are easy and can be practiced at any time of the day, they are most effective on an empty stomach,

Instructions and benefits for:

-       Vayu Mudra

-       Akash Mudra

-       Shunya Mudra

-       Prithvi-mudra

-       Suryamudra

-       Varunmudra

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Yoga Instruction: Yoga instruction is a general term for a range of body-mind exercise practices used to access consciousness and encourage physical and mental well-being. Some forms concentrate on achieving perfection in posture and alignment of the body; others aim at mental control to access higher consciousness. Between these two forms are yogas that focus on the interrelationship of body, mind, and energy.

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Nectar of Instruction, The

Srila Prabhupada’s English translation of Srila Rupa Goswami’s Sri Upadeshamrita.

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The science of mudra is Tatva Yoga, that is yoga based on the science of elements and not accupressure. These mudras can cure many diseases, if performed properly.

Instructions and benefits for:

-       Ling Mudra

-       Saman Mudra

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Physical ailments are a result of the disturbance in the equilibrium of the five elemental forces of the body. Appropriate 'mudras' can help restore proper balance, says Acharya Vikrmaditya.

Instructions and benefits for:

-       Udan Mudra

-       Viyan Mudra

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The Linga mudra is said to make the body more resistant to colds and chest infections. Those who suffer from bad colds, incurable infections, congested chests and are prone to being affected adversely by the mildest changes in the weather, so they are advised to practise the Linga mudra. This mudra generates heat in the body and thus, while it "burns" away accumulated phlegm in the chest, it also makes the body more resilient to the cold.

Instructions and benefits for:

-       Linga mudra

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Are you prone to heart attacks or deafness? These mudras will help in curing your ailments.

Mudras can cure almost any ailment from a simple earache to a heart attack. If a person who has developed heart trouble performs Mritsanjivini Mudra; it will lead to a path of permanent recovery.

Through Mritsanjivini Mudra a patient who is suffering a heart attack can check the attack and get instant relief. Technique:

Instructions and benefits for:

-       Mritsanjivini Mudra

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 Instructions on Meditation.

From "Easy Steps to Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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Feeling ill? Got a problem? Going by Acharya Keshav Dev's verdict, you could skip the doctor for a while and knot your fingers in various gestures, popularly known as Mudras says Acharya Vikrmaditya.

The five fingers on our hand represent the five elements. The ring finger represents earth, the little finger represents water, the thumb represents fire, the index finger represents air and finally the middle finger represents space. Physical ailments are the results of the disturbance in the equilibrium of the five elemental forces of the body. This imbalance of the elements can be easily cured through Science of Mudras.

Instructions and benefits for:

-       Apan Mudra

-       Pran Mudra

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Twenty Important Spiritual Instructions by H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.

From "Easy Steps to Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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 The word "yoga" often brings to mind a classroom of students attired in exercise clothing attempting to stretch their bodies into different postures. A more traditional yoga class will even include instruction in breathing techniques, concentration, meditation, and positive thinking. In the media today, yoga is often associated with health benefits such as stress reduction, lower blood pressure, and an overall decrease in illness and hospitalization rates. This is the Western idea of yoga. If we look to the Eastern approach, where yoga is a part of the great Hindu and Buddhist traditions, we find that yoga is all of these things but much, much more as well.

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Here is a kriya to reverse the ageing process.

The body is programmed for normal wear and tear. The pranic currents of paanch mahapranas within the body i.e Prana, Apana, Samana, Udaan and Vayan are programmed to flow in their respective directions and take the body to its logical end. Our ancient rishis discovered that reversing the process of pranic flows has the effect of reversing certain ageing processes, processes responsible for apparent decay of the body viz grey hair, sagging skin and loss of the youthful physical glow.

Reversing the pranic flow is called Viparitkarni - a technique prescribed by the ancients to reverse the ageing process.

Instructions and benefits for:

-       Viparitkarni Kriya

-       Chakra Sanchalan Kriya

-       Brahmacharya Kriya

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Instructions, benefis and cautions for:

-       Narishodhan Pranayam

-       Suryabhedi Pranayam

-       Ujjayi Pranayam

-       Shitali Pranayam

-       Sitkari pranayam

-       Bhastrika pranayam

-       Bhramari pranayam

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This FAQ gives an overview of those kundalini yoga practices which require conscious effort. Part I of III.

In Part III: 1) But even if kundalini is dangerous, isn't it a faster way to enlighenment?, 2) What are the origins of kundalini yoga?, 3) What is the classical literature of kundalini yoga?, 4) What is the precise role of the guru in kundalini yoga?, 5) Can't I learn it through books?, 6) Where can I gain instruction on kundalini yoga?, 7) Where can I learn more?

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Instructions On Siddhis

By the process of Hatha Yoga, the Yogi attains perfect physical body-Rupalavanya Bala Vajrasam-hanana Kaya Sampat. "The perfection of the body consists in beauty, grace, strength and adamantine hardness." The power to bear extreme cold and heat (Titiksha), the power to live without water and food and other powers come under the category of Kaya Sampat (perfection of body).

From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda

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Some brilliant, very effective and simple mudras, which you can practice anytime and anywhere:

Instructions and benefits for:

-       GYAN MUDRA

-       PURN GYAN MUDRA

-       ABHAYA MUDRA

-       DHYAAN MUDRA

-       PRITHVI MUDRA

-       VARUN MUDRA

-       VAYU MUDRA

-       PRAN MUDRA

-       LINGA MUDRA

-       MRITSANJIVINI MUDRA

-       SURYA MUDRA

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During meditation you behold divine visions, experience divine smell, divine taste, divine touch, hear divine Anahata Sounds. You receive instructions from God. These indicate that the Kundalini Shakti has been awakened. When there is throbbing in Muladhara, when hair stands on its root, when Uddiyana, Jalandhara and Mulabandha come involuntarily, know that Kundalini has awakened.

From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda

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The ultimate goal of yoga, "is not just a better body, but also a better state of being. Today we give you two exercises to improve acidity and other stomach problems.

Benefits and instructions for:

-       Shalabh Asana

-       Makar Asana

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Yoga theory says the navel is the originating point of around 72,000 types of nadis and these effect all organs of the human body. Today we give you two asanas to maintain the balance of the navel.

Benefits and instructions for:

-       Uttanapad asana

-       Paschimothan asana

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Instructions to find bliss.

From "Easy Steps to Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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