12/11/2025
Last night’s Shakti Naam breathwork combined the cooling flow of Sitali Pranayama with the graceful Surbhi Mudra, known for balancing the five elements and three doshas.
✨ Interlace the fingers cross-wise, thumbs open and extended.
✨ If you’re left-hand dominant (as I am), you may find it more natural to begin the sequence in reverse — what matters most is the balance between both hands.
How to Practise
• Right ring finger to left little finger
• Left ring finger to right little finger
• Right middle finger to left index finger
• Left middle finger to right index finger
• Thumbs open and extended
• Rest the hands lightly in front of the solar plexus, shoulders relaxed, spine tall, crown lifted
If starting with your left feels more natural:
• Left middle finger to right index
• Right middle to left index
• Right ring finger to left pinkie
• Left ring to right pinkie
• Thumbs open and extended
This mudra helps cool excess fire, ease acidity and tension, supports the bones and brain, can assist with arthritis, and awakens inner harmony.
Try it with Sitali — sip the breath slowly through a curled tongue or pursed lips, filling the lungs, then exhale through the nose just as gently.
Long, slow, and deep — 5 to 11 minutes is ideal.