Pranidhana Mudra can help you to let go of what weighs you down, including old attachments and habits. ‘Letting go’ is inherently calming and can open up a sense of spaciousness within you.
Deeply relaxing, Pranidhana Mudra can help lower high blood pressure and and also reduce stress and tensions in your physical body, emotions, mind and outlook.
This mudra has a powerful downward energy flow effect within the physical and energy bodies called Apana Vayu current of energy. This nourishes and cultivates healthier eliminatory, urinary, and reproductive systems.
“Letting Go Opens Me to a Field of New Possibilities.”
HOW TO: Thumbs touch the middle and ring fingers. Pointer fingers are pressed together, as are pinky fingers. Hold your hands facing upward, like two deer heads looking upward, in your lap or in front of your navel, for 5-10 natural breaths. State the affirmation three times out loud, then silently.
Hold for 5-10 natural breaths. State the intention statement three times out loud, then silently. Notice how you feel in body, mind, and emotions. No known cautions.
FIVE ELEMENTS: Earth and Water Elements – Pranidhana Mudra activates and increases Earth & Water Element qualities including feeling grounded, increasing feeling of flow, reduction of stress and anxiety, relaxation, serenity, steadiness, focus, mindfulness and can improve the quality of your sleep!
Deeply relaxing, this mudra is helpful for anxiety.
Cultivates calm which helps with insomnia, lowering blood pressure, and toning vagus nerve.
Ability to let go into a place of openness, freedom and possibility increases.
Supports health of reproductive, urinary and eliminatory systems.
Naturally lengthens exhalation, bringing you into Relaxation Response.
Caution: Low blood pressure practice with caution.
These mudras and the information provided are modified from Mudras for Healing
and Transformation by Joseph and Lilian LePage.
Soundstrue created this beautiful video of myself and my dear Mohican friend Shawn Stevens on the sacredness of the land at Kripalu.
Shawn’s ancestors lived here for thousands of years in harmony with the land, then suffered an imposed ‘letting go’ by being displaced from their homelands about 260 years ago. Shawn loves to return here, and through him, I have found my own roots in this place I now call home!
Very sweet! Our dear pets can be so open and trusting and seem to be able to fall asleep almost anywhere – even in a garden pot! Warning: this may cause drowsiness!
Dvimukham Mudra has a calming effect with thus allows you to release the stresses of the moment to connect with your deeper wisdom. This mudra increases the downward flow of energy and breath in your body (apana vayu current) that brings you into a state of peace by helping to lower the blood pressure and reduce stress levels by shifting your nervous system into the relaxation mode (parasympathetic).
FIVE ELEMENTS: Dvimukham Mudra activates and increases the Earth Element, enhancing qualities such as relaxation, serenity, grounding, steadiness, focus, mindfulness and improving the ability to sleep!
HOW TO: Hold your hands facing upward like you are holding a large salad bowl, in your lap or in front of your belly, for 5-10 natural breaths. State the affirmation three times out loud, then silently.
“In the cocoon of my inner being, I discover my True Wisdom.”
Deeply relaxing.
Massages lower abdomen internally as it enhances abdominal breathing.
Especially good for insomnia, lowering blood pressure, toning vagus nerve.
Cultivates serenity helping to reduce anxiety and fear.
Supports health of reproductive, urinary and eliminatory systems, as well as nourishes low back.
Naturally lengthens exhalation bringing you into Relaxation Response.
CAUTION: low blood pressure practice with caution.
Mudras and information provided are modified, and used by permission,
from Joseph and Lilian LePage.
