Mudras

Hatha Pradeepika • Divya Ashta Aiswarya Pradaayakam

Gheranda Samhita • Jaraa Mrityu Vinashnini
• Speech perfection
Shiva Samhita
• Attain the ability to move freely

List of Mudras
GhS HR HP SS
Maha Mudra Maha Mudra Maha Mudra Maha Mudra
Nabho Mudra
Maha Bheda Maha Bheda Maha Bheda Maha Bheda
Khechari Khechari Khechari Khechari
Vipareeta Karani Vipareeta Karani Vipareeta Karani Vipareeta Karani
Yoni Mudra Yoni Mudra
Vajroni Vajroli Vajroli Vajroli
Shakti Chalani Shakti Chalani Shakti Chalani Shakti Chalani
Tadagi
Manduki
Shambhavi
Note: In SS Yoni
Ashwini
Mudra is
Pashini Note: Khechari is
discussed
last Mudra in
Kaki seperately and is
sequence
not mentioned
Matangi
in 10 Mudras
Bhujangini
 Maha Mudra
• Press the anal region with the left heel
• Stretch the right leg in front
GS Technique
• Hold the toes of the right foot with both hands
• Apply Shambhavi Mudra
• Press the anal region with the left heel
• Stretch the right leg in front
• Hold the toes of the right foot with both hands
• By Jaalandhara Bandha and retaining, the prana
raises straight
• So the kundalini shakti becomes straight at once.
HP Technique • Then the two become lifeless (Ida and Pingala) as the
shakti enters sushumna
• Then exhale slowly and gradually, not quickly.
• After practising on the left side, practise on the right
side
• When the number of rounds is even , discontinue and
release the mudra.
• Press the anal region with the left heel
• Stretch the right leg in front
• Hold the toes of the right foot with both hands
SS Technique • Apply Jaalandhara Bandha
• Having the chitta concentrate on sushumna,
commence the practice of pranayama
• After practising on the left side, practise on the right
side
Gheranda Samhita Hatha Pradeepika
• Valitam • Kshaya
• Palitam • Kushta
• Jaraa • Gudhavarta
Disorders that • Mrityum • Gulma
are removed • Kshaya • Indigestion
• Kasa
• Udavartam
• Pleeha
• Jeerna Jvara
 Hatha • Mahakleshas are removed
Pradeepika • Causes of death are removed
Benefits • Anything (even poison) can be consumed
• Proper movement among all the nadis
• Holding of the bindu
• Decaying the impurities and sins
• Awakens kundalini
• Entering of the air into the Brahmarandhra
SS Benefits • Allevation of all the diseaes
• Increase in gastric fire
• Vapusha kanti ramala
• Jara Mrityu vinashanam
• Well being
• Control over senses

Nabho Mudra
Technique • Tongue turned upward and retain the breath
Benefits • Destroys all the disorders
Khechari Mudra
GhS • The nadi connecting the tongue and the root of the
Technique tongue, which is located underneath the tongue is to
be moved continuously
• By applying butter and with the help of dohan kriya
it is to be pulled with Loha Yantra.
• With daily practice tongue becomes elongated.
• Its length should be so increased that it can reach
the eyebrow centre.
• Khechari mudra is then accomplished.
• In this way the tongue should gradually be inserted
into the root of the palata.
• By folding the tongue upward and backward, it
should be taken right up to the nasal cavity.
• Keep the awareness fixed at the eyebrow centre at
that time.
 • This is khechari Mudra
• Khechari mudra is turning the tongue backwards
into the cavity of the craniumm and Shambhavi
Mudra
HP
• The tongue should exercised and milked and the
Technique
underneath part cut away in small degrees
• Khechari is perfected when the tongue touches the
eyebrow centre.
• With a clean thin blade , gently cut away the
membrane under the tongue.
• Cut it by a fine hair's breadth each time
• Then rub in a mixture of powdered rock salt and
turmeric after seven days, again cut a hair's breadth
Lengtheni
ng of the • One should continue doing this regularly for six
Tongue months, then the membrane at the root of the
tongue will be completely severed.
• Having turned the tongue back, the three channels
of Ida, Pingala and sushumna are controlled.
• It is called khechari mudra and it is called the
VYOMA CHAKRA
GhS • The Practitioner is not troubled by unconsciousness,
Benefits hunger, thirst, laziness etc.
• Fear of any disorder or disease, old age and death
vanishes as the body becomes divine.
• The physical body is neither burnt in fire nor dried
up by wind.
• It can neither be made wet by water nor does poison
have any effect as in the case of snake bite.
• The body becomes graceful and charming.
• Unshakeable samadhi is perfected.
• New blissful experiences manifest
• Various Juices are produced, day in and day out
▪ In the beginning – Salty, Alkaline, bitter and
astringent tastes
▪ Then – The taste of butter , ghee, milk, curd,
 buttermilk, honey, grapes and then nectar are
produced.
• The yogi who remains with the tongue going
upwards for even half a second is freed from toxins,
disease, death, old age etc.
• One who accomplishes thsi khechari mudra is
neither troubled by diseases, nor death, sleep,
hunger, thirst
• Mind moves in brahman because the tongue moves
in space.
• When the upper cavity of the palate is sealed by
khechari mudra the bindu or semen cannot be lost
even if one embraces a beautiful woman. Even when
there is movement of the bindu and it enters the
HP
genitals it is seized by closing the perineum and is
Benefits
taken upward
• With the tongue directed upwards, the knower of
yoga drinks the fluids of the moon. Within fifteen
days physical death is conquered.
• The yogi's body is forever full of the moon's nectar.
Even if he is bitten by king of snakes , he is not
poisoned.
• By Gomamsa Bhakshana only he can drink
amaravaruni.
• The word GO in Gomamsa Bhakshana means tongue,
When it enters into the upper palate, it is eating the
flesh of the cow.(Gomamsa Bhakshana)
• Eight types of nadas are heard.
HR
Benefits • The tip of the elongated tongue tastes the nectar, as
salt, pungent, sour or milk , honey or ghee

Maha Bheda Mudra

• Roopa Yauvana Laavanyam – Purusha
Notes
Moola Bandha and Maha Bandha – Maha Bheda
GhS • Maha Bandha + Moola Bandha + Antar Kumbhaka
Technique
• In position of Maha Bandha, should Inhale
• Make the mind steady and stop the movement of
prana by Jaalandhara Bandha
• Placing the palms of the hands on the ground, he
HP
should slowly beat the buttocks gently on the
Technique
ground.
• The prana then leaves the two nadis and enters into
the middle channel
• Then the breath should be exhaled
GhS
• Neither affected by old age nor the fear of death
Benefits
• Ida, pingala and sushumna become united and verily,
immortality is attained.
HP
• A death like state occurs
Benefits
• Wrinkles, grey hair and trembling of old age are
evaded
• These three should be done daily at every Yama
• These three great secrets which destroy old age and
death, increases digestive fire and bestow the siddhis
of anima etc.

Vipareeta Karani Mudra

• Sun Plexus – Root of the Navel
Moon Plexus – Root of the Palate
• Sun consumes nectar secreted by the Moon – Death
Notes Moon consumes the nectar – No fear of death
• Therefore bring the
▪ Sun – Up
▪ Moon – Down
• Place the head on the ground
Technique
• Provide support with both hands and both legs
GhS • Old age and death are eliminated
 • Attains siddhi in all lokas
Benefits
• Not grieved even at the time of dissolution.
• Digestion strengthened by continual pracitce,
therefore the practitioner should always have
sufficient food. If takes only a little food, the heat
HP produced by digestion will destroy the system.
Benefits • 6 months of practice
• Valit – Winkles disappeae
• Palit – Grey Hair
• One Yama daily – Crosses Death (Kaala jeet)

Yoni Mudra
• Adopt Shanmukhi mudra
• Adopt Kaki Mudra
• Pull the prana and join it with apana
• Keeping the awareness at the 6 chakras of the body
• Awaken the kundalini shakti with the mantras Hoom
Technique and Hamsa and bring the jivatma along with it to
sahasrara
• There should be the silent feeling at that time that "
I am moving comfortably along with shiva and
shakti. I have become blissful Brahman too"
• This is yoni mudra
• Contracting the yoni
SS
• Mind directed towards one's Mooladhara
Technique
• Begin Puraka

Vajroni Mudra
• Place both hands firmly on the ground and lift both
Technique
the feet and the head into the sky
Benefits • Flow of energy and provides one with life.
• Become competent in urdhvaretas tattwa due to
bindu siddhi
 Shakti Chalani Mudra
• In mooladhara, kundalini
• In the form of a serpent
• With three and half coils and
• Remains sleeping
• Door opens only when lock is opened with a key,
Brahmarandhra can only be opened when kundalini
is awakened.
• Ida = Ganga
Pingala = Yamuna
Kundalini Balarandam = Kundalini
• By seizing the tail of kundalini serpent, she becomes
very excited abandoning sleep that shakti is released
and rises up
• Brahmachari + Mitahari + Practise arousal of
Kundalini = Achieves perfection in 40 days
• Bhastrika Pranayama + Kumbhaka = Kundalini
awakens
• Purifies 72,000 nadis
• Shambhavi mudra is greatest for greatest perfection
• Kutilangi
Other • Bhujangi
names of • Shakti
Kundalini • Ishwari
(HP) • Kundali
• Arundhati
• A soft piece of cloth
Cloth • Length – One Vitasthi (23 cm)
• Width – Chaturangul (10cm)
Technique • Tie the cloth around the waist.
• Smear ash on the body
• Sit in Siddhasana
• While pulling the prana, merge it with apana
• Do Ashwini Mudra as long as sushumna passage is
 not cleared or lighted
• Thus with the air held by kumbhaka, kundalini in the
form of a serpent awakens and stands upright in the
passage.
• Puraka through Pingala
• Kumbhaka
• Rotate constantly for an hour and a half
• Morning and Evening
• Vajrasana, holding the ankles and squeeze the kanda
HP close to the anus
Technique • In the position of vajrasana, the yogi should move
kundalini
• Having done bhastrika pranayama the kundalini is
aroused.
• Contracting the sun in manipura, kundalini should
be moved
Benefits • Vigraha Siddhi
• Yoni mudra cannot be perfected without the practice
Notes
of shakti chalini mudra

Tadagi Mudra
• Sit in Paschimottasana
Technique
• Expand the abdomen as if it were full of water
Benefits • Removes the fear of old age and death

Manduki Mudra
• Keeping the mouth closed
• Tongue should be rotated inside the palate
Technique
• Nectar flowing from sahasrara should be slowly
tasted by tongue
 • Wrinkling of the body and greying of the hair cease
Benefits
• Permanent youth is attained.
Shambhavi Mudra
Technique • Steady the gaze at the eyebrow centre, on one's self
Benefits • One acheives Khecharatva (ability to move in space)
• Shambhavi mudra is equal to Kula Vadhu
Notes • After this panchadharana is followed
• It is also called rudrani mudra

Ashwini Mudra
Technique • Contracting and Expanding the anal region
• Awakens Kundalini
• Guhya roga vinashini (Anus and Reproductive
Benefits system)
• Bala pushtikari
• Akala mrityuharani

Pashini Mudra
• Taking both the legs behind the neck
Technique
• Hold them together firmly like a noose
• Awakens Kundalini
Benefits
• Bala Pushti

Kaki Mudra
• Shaping the mouth like the beak of a crow
Technique
• Inhale slowly through the mouth
• Sarva roga Vinashini
Benefits • Relief from all disorders
• Just like crow, one becomes free from disease
 Matangini Mudra
• Standing in water up to the throat
Technique • Perform Vyutkrama Kapalabhati
• It should be practised repeatedly
• Jaraa Mrityu Vinashini
Benefits • Yogi becomes powerful like an elephant
• Always remain happy

Bhujangini Mudra
• Opening the mouth wide enough
Technique
• Such air through the throat
• Jaraa Mrityu Vinashini
Benefits
• Abdominal disorder are removed
 Disorders that are removed
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Kundalini Awakens
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