• This is a list of Yoga mudras. In yoga, mudrās are used in conjunction with pranayama (yogic breathing exercises), generally while seated in Padmasana...
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    bodhicitta, amrita, or consciousness in the body. Unlike older tantric mudras, hatha yogic mudras are generally internal actions, involving the pelvic floor, diaphragm...
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    performance arts, Anjali Mudra is a form of non-verbal, visual communication to the audience. It is one of 24 samyukta mudras of the Indian classical arts...
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    classical sources for the mudras are the Gheranda Samhita and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. The yoga mudras are diverse in the parts of the body involved and...
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    practices of Haṭha yoga. Among its techniques were mudrās, meant to seal in or control energies such as kundalini and bindu. Khecarī mudrā is one such...
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    Shaka sign (category Symbols of Hawaii)
    when giving the shaka hand sign. ILY sign List of gestures List of mudras (yoga) Manual communication Sign of the horns Thumb signal Watanabe, June (31...
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    Kriya Yoga (Sanskrit: क्रिया योग) is a yoga system which consists of a number of levels of pranayama, mantra, and mudra, intended to rapidly accelerate...
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    used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga. The term is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'seat'. While many of the oldest mentioned asanas are...
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    Asana (redirect from Yoga posture)
    hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali...
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    Viparita Karani (category Mudras)
    asana and a mudra in hatha yoga. In modern yoga as exercise, it is commonly a fully supported pose using a wall and sometimes a pile of blankets, where...
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    Namaste (category Mudras)
    S2CID 46968377. C Carroll; R Carroll (2012). Mudras of India: A Comprehensive Guide to the Hand Gestures of Yoga and Indian Dance. SD Publishers. pp. 44–46...
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    Self-Consciousness." Laya yoga has a number of techniques which include listening to the "inner sound" (nada), mudras such as Khechari and Shambhavi mudra, and awakening...
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  • purifications (shatkarmas), yoga breathing (pranayama), yogic seals (mudras), and meditative union (samadhi) at a comparable level of detail. The book has been...
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    Tejasana, Mandukasana. Mudras and bandhas are listed in "Ananda Marga Caryacarya part 3": Uddayana Mudra, Bandhatraya Yoga (Mahamudra, Mahabandha, Mahaveda)...
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  • Pancha Bhuta (category Yoga concepts)
    channelized through various hand mudras. According to ayurveda and Yoga, Pancha Bhuta are associated with overall health of human being. Any disorder in human...
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    or list of postures is given. Postures were not central in any of the older traditions of yoga; posture practice was revived in the 1920s by yoga gurus...
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    stand), is an inverted asana in modern yoga as exercise; similar poses were used in medieval hatha yoga as a mudra. Many named variations exist, including...
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    both an asana and a mudra; easier variants begin from Ardha Padmasana. Variations of several other asanas such as Sirsasana (yoga headstand), Sarvangasana...
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  • Shiva Samhita (category Hatha yoga texts)
    Vidya school of South India. The remaining chapters discuss yoga, the importance of a guru (teacher) to a student, various asanas, mudras and siddhis (powers)...
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    Balinese dance (category Dances of Indonesia)
    Performance in Java and Bali by B. Arps (1993) p.77 Mudras: Yoga in Your Hands by Gertrud Hirschi (2000) Mudras in Buddhist and Hindu Practices: An Iconographic...
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    Sun Salutation (redirect from Yoga series)
    a practice in yoga as exercise incorporating a flow sequence of some twelve linked asanas. The asana sequence was first recorded as yoga in the early 20th...
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  • Sri Yoga Ramaswamy Temple, Nedumgunam is a Hindu temple in Nedumgunam, Chettupattu, dedicated to the god Rama. This temple has inscriptions of Rajaraja...
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    The fundamental practice of Vajrayana and Tibetan tantra is deity yoga (devatayoga), meditation on a chosen deity or "cherished divinity" (Skt. Iṣṭa-devatā...
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    Malasana (redirect from Yoga squat)
    various squatting asanas in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. Traditionally, and in B. K. S. Iyengar's Light on Yoga, Malasana, or Garland Pose, is...
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    Tantra (redirect from Tantric Yoga)
    gestures (mudra), mapping of the microcosm within one's body to the macrocosmic elements outside as the subtle body (kundalini yoga), assignments of icons...
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    Baba Hari Dass. Sankat Mochan Hanuman Hari Dass Baba Doing Rare Mudras Sacred Hand Mudras (David Fuess) Portals:  Biography  Philosophy  Hinduism  India...
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    The Yoga Institute (abbreviated as TYI) is a government recognized non-profit organisation, known as the oldest organized yoga center in the world. It...
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  • Shirshasana (category Medieval Hatha Yoga asanas)
    Shirshasana, or Yoga Headstand is an inverted asana in modern yoga as exercise; it was described as both an asana and a mudra in classical hatha yoga, under different...
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    Downward Dog Pose (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    "deservedly one of yoga's most widely recognized yoga poses" and the "quintessential yoga pose". As such it is often the asana of choice when yoga is depicted...
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    Tree pose (category Medieval Hatha Yoga asanas)
    of the very few standing poses in medieval hatha yoga, and remains popular in modern yoga as exercise. The pose has been called iconic of modern yoga;...
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