10/14/2025
My favorite way to end a practice— uniting left and right hemispheres; your heart and mine…join me on the mat some time for some trauma informed therapy.
Teach Anjali Mudra correctly to your students.
View step-by-step instructions along with benefits and contraindications at https://www.tummee.com/yoga-poses/namaskar-mudra-close-up
Anjali Mudra (Namaskar Mudra) is a hand gesture that can be practiced as part of meditation or asana practices. Primarily seen at the beginning of the yoga session and at the end, it is a gesture or offering that is humble, and honoring the union between one heart and another’s. Hence, it is placed at the heart center. The significance of this gesture practiced by both the yoga teacher (guru) and the students (shishya) invokes the deepest respect for each other, that says ‘the divine in me, bows to the divine in you.’
Anjali Mudra (Namaskar Mudra) is a Samyuktha Hasta mudra, a gesture that uses both hands. The joining of hands and fingers in this practice is said to bring a deeper connection between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, since the fingers and hands are receptors, they communicate to the brain, stimulating it. Anjali Mudra is also referred to as Hrudayanjali Mudra or Atmanjali Mudra. This hand gesture placed at the heart center directs the breath or energy into the heart space allowing the union of the body with the cosmic energy.
