In an effort to help us start the New Year with healthy practices Body and Soul is running a series on the healing techniques of mudras. Mudras are hand and finger gestures commonly used in Hinduism ...

Hand mudras have been in use for centuries by Hindus Buddhists in Yoga, Ayurveda and dance rituals. They are said to restore physical and mental health. Mudras help to link the brain to the body, ...

Keep your hand straight my child,” coddles the teacher. Little hands contort into a 2,000-year-old mudra. Fingertips touch, neurons fire, and that little brain processes neuroplasticity at a magnitude ...

For the uninitiated, yogic mudras use the biological map — called the homunculus map — in our brains to manage and manipulate powerful healing reactions in the body The summer has been quite severe ...

Thus, pranayama may be understood, in essence, as the control of prana by regulating our breathing habits using certain techniques and practices. Regulated, rhythmic respiration purifies the body and ...