17/07/2025
About mudras 🤲
Mudras are symbolic hand gestures used in yoga and meditation to guide energy (prana), enhance focus, and deepen self-awareness. Each mudra carries unique meaning and intention:
1. Chin mudra
The practice of this mudra connects the individual’s consciousness to the universal one.
This means trying to be aware of one’s mind (individual consciousness) as an extension of the supreme or universal consciousness.
It enhances concentration, promote calmness, and increase inner awareness.
2. Jnana mudra
A tool for cultivating deep mental clarity, sharpening focus, and creating a clear mental state.
This mudra helps direct prana to the mind by joining the thumb and the forefinger, and forming a circular loop, evoking self-awareness, reflection, and inner peace.
3. Yoni mudra
Is a hand gesture that symbolizes the womb and creative energy.
This seal invites practitioners to connect with the feminine creative force, Shakti, and access deep inner stillness. It serves as a symbolic retreat into the womb of self-realization, embodying renewal, introspection, and balance.
4. Padma mudra
Opens our heart chakra to receive love, grace, compassion and abundance.
You can think of the path of the lotus as the journey to enlightenment, from mud to light 🪷
The fully bloomed flower is our fully awakened self: pure and beautiful.
5. Namaskar mudra (Anjali Mudra)
Symbolizes respect, gratitude, humility, and reverence, often used as a greeting, farewell, or expression of respect.
It signifies the union of opposing forces, the integration of body, mind, and spirit, and the recognition of the divine within.
Our left and right side of the body represent the duality of all our emotions, intellect, and senses. United, they flow in balance.
6. Dhyana mudra
Used to deepen concentration and guide the practitioner towards inner peace and equanimity.
The right hand (enlightenment & states of higher consciousness) resting over the left ( maya/illusion) symbolizes balance between consciousness and the material world.
Often seen in depictions of the Buddha.
