Too's straightforward, accessible text and beautiful black and gold illustrations reveal the physical and spiritual benefits gained from regular use of mantras and mudras, from increased energy levels to deep inner calm.

A simple technique to achieve lasting health, happiness, and inner peace. “Yoga for the hands—sounds too good to be true. Do it at the office, on an airplane, lying in bed. Seasoned yoga teacher Gertrud Hirschi has used these hand postures to ease asthma, relieve flu symptoms, think more effectively, relieve tension, and more. Like a classroom instructor, she guides readers with simultaneous breathing advice and conjures up helpful images.” —Brian Bruya, Amazon.com Review Mudras are yoga positions for your hands and fingers. They can be practiced sitting, lying down, standing, or walking, at any time and place. These mysterious healing gestures can calm the stress, aggravations, and frustrations of everyday life. Schooled in the traditional knowledge of this eastern art of healing, well-known Swiss yoga teacher, Gertrud Hirschi, shows how these easy techniques can recharge personal energy reserves and improve quality of life. Readers will learn how to use the practice of mudras to: Prevent illness and ailments Support the healing of many emotional issues Promote spiritual development Intensify the affect with breathing exercises, affirmations, visualizations, herbs, nutrition, music, and colors therapy Also included are several full-body mudras and exercises to enhance any meditation and yoga practice.

Discover how to integrate more than 60 mudras into your daily life for increased vitality and inner peace Mudras are an ancient and often overlooked Eastern practice that involves making established hand gestures which direct subtle energy to boost health and wellbeing. This definitive, fully illustrated guide to the art of mudras provides a highly practical and inspirational overview of how to use these subtle and beautiful gestures to revitalize every aspect of your life, not just in your yoga or meditation practice. The introduction lays the foundation for mudra practice with chapters showing why and how to do the mudras themselves. Chapters are also dedicated to different parts of the hand and their corresponding elements, illustrating holistic benefits, like boosting inner strength, relieving stress, enhancing creativity, and increasing concentration. Each mudra entry includes an accompanying chant, meditation, pranayama, asana, or visualization. Mudras for Modern Life also provides a series of highly useful mudra routines for a range of both physical and emotional health issues from anxiety and chronic fatigue to arthritis and headaches.

Mudras are hand gestures commonly used in yoga and meditation practices to direct the energy and expand consciousness. This vibrantly colored deck presents 33 mudras and 7 chakra cards that were selected for their benefits in promoting health and healing. Each card includes instructions for the pose, an explanation of specific benefits, and an affirmation to help focus your intentions.

"Learn the natural healing method that will help you conquer fibromyalgia and arthritis, relieve stress, improve memory, overcome lyme, manage pain, balance irritable bowel syndrome, healthy weight, strong nerves, eliminate addictions, sleeplessness"--Cover.

MUDRAS and CRYSTALS, the Alchemy of Energy protection - 88 Mudras, mantras, affirmations - FULL COLOR Edition. In this book, the Mudra authority and bestselling author Sabrina Mesko shares with you the powerful and unique method of merging two ancient and immensely effective energy tools. MUDRAS and CRYSTALS create a healing frequency fusion that can help establish a protective energy shield for your body, mind and spirit. MUDRAS are hand yoga positions that unlock the transformative healing power of your own hands, while CRYSTALS are the unwavering masters of Light. When used together, your body's natural frequency will function at its optimal level. The frequencies we are exposed to in our daily life may cause adverse effects on our individual energy field. Mudras and Crystals will help remedy any unharmonious energy states and uplift your overall vibration. They will help you anchor a powerful and protective vibrational shield, so that you can overcome adversities and function at your optimal capacity. In these pages you will learn how to: Practice Mudras with Crystals, Create a Protective Energy Shield for your Physical Body, Mental Energy body, Emotional Energy body and Astral Energy body.

Learn the movements that eliminate fatigue and burnout; stop anxiety and depression; protect your physical health; increase love and abundance; improve mental clarity and intuition; and align your spirit and give you peace.

These 98 Yoga cards were developed to support your personal Yoga practice and also to assist the Yoga teacher in offering clear and concise instructions and language for the Yoga poses. The Toolbox uses a multidimensional approach to teaching asanas, in which the instructions address all levels of being: physical, energetic, psycho-emotional, intuitive and spiritual. The Toolbox also includes warm-up cards for all areas of the body as well as three complete asana sequences, beginning, intermediate and advanced.Each of the Yoga posture cards, organized by category, includes the following: ? Clear cues, benefits, cautions, modifications and variations.? The core quality of each asana with an affirmation for use during practice.? Symbolism and mythology behind each pose.? Physical body systems influenced by the asana.? Energetic body systems influenced by each asana, including the five elements, ayurvedic doshas, chakras and prana vayus.