Healing Mudras Part 1

Healing Mudras Part 1

Mudras – Healing at your fingertips! Understanding the What, Why’s and How’s of practicing Mudras in today’s stressful, bustling world full of work and only work – we have very little time for our body to heal, let alone taking care of our food habits and...
What is a Mudra?

What is a Mudra?

Mudras are beautifully designed scientific hand gestures that originate from the ancient Ayurvedic and yogic texts. People of all ages can practice them. There are no pre-requisites to practice. Although there are many hundreds of mudras, I have picked practical and...
Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga

Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga

Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga :  Everyone is on a quest for eternal youth and happiness. This quest is also the goal of yoga i.e., to attain our eternally youthful and blissful body. The yogic texts explain that we are ätma or the soul. This soul is ever young and...
The Mind

The Mind

The central aspect of yoga practice is the mind. We will begin with some analogies to understand the mind, the origin of the mind, and then we go on to heal and purify this mind. The mind is an organ of perception for the soul. The Yoga sūtra and the Bhagavad-Gītā...
Jala Dhauti or Gaja Karani

Jala Dhauti or Gaja Karani

Jala Dhauti means a technique to cleanse the stomach with saltwater. This helps keep the digestive tract clean and cleanses the body of acidity. This technique is also known as Gaj Karn. Gaj means elephant. When an elephant experiences nausea in the abdomen, it...