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.

Chinese Shamanic Cosmic Orbit Qigong is an advanced form of Qigong from one of China’s esoteric traditions. Never before written about in the West, this form offers great cumulative benefits from regular daily practice. Master Wu describes the practice in detail, including the meaning and significance of the Chinese names for each movement, with its shamanic roots, and provides the mantra, visualization, and mudra for each as well as explaining the therapeutic benefits and talismanic aspects. The book is fully illustrated, and there is a handy reference quick guide at the end showing the entire orbit. This unique book will be essential reading for advanced students and practitioners of Qigong and anyone interested in Daoism, or the ancient wisdom traditions of China.

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.

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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.

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.