What is Yoga Mudra, Its Benefits & Precautions

What is Yoga Mudra

Yoga Mudra The word “Yogamudra” is derived from the two words – yoga (awareness) and mudra (seal). Yogamudra thus is the “seal of awareness”.

• It ensures that you attain the highest stage of awareness.

Also Know as: Psychic union Pose, Psychio-union posture, Yog-Mudra Asan, Yogmudra Asana

How to start this Asana

• From a position sitting on your heels, press your sitting bones downward.
• Press the crown of your head away from your shoulders and feel the elongation of your spine.
• Bring your hands behind your back, interlacing your fingers and, if possible, drawing the heels of your palms together.
• Press your hands away from your shoulders, allowing your arms to elongate, your shoulder blades to come together, and your chest to expand.
• Lift your tailbone and allow the lifting to extend your torso forward over your knees, bringing your forehead to rest on the ground.
• Allow your arms to come over your head, pressing your little fingers toward the floor in front of you.

How to end this Asana

• To release, press your front part of the leg towards downward and bring down your lower part of spine as you return to the starting position.

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Benefits of Yoga Mudra

According to research, this Asana is helpful as per below^(YR/1)

1. It strengthens the internal organs of the abdominal region.
2. It relieves constipation and indigestion.
3. It stimulates the ovaries and the uterus in women.
4. It rectifies the problem of premature ejaculation.
5. It increases the memory power.
6. It removes excess of fat in the abdominal region.
7. It awakens the ‘Kundalini Shakti’ (Serpent power).
8. The person becomes one with the cosmic consciousness.

Precaution to be taken before doing Yoga Mudra

As per several scientific studies, precautions need to be taken in diseases mentioned as per below^(YR/2)

1. Diabetic patients should not perform this asana.
2. People with serious eye, heart or back conditions should avoid doing this asana.

So, consult your doctor if you have any of the problem mentioned above.

Histroy and scientific base of Yoga

Due to the oral transmission of sacred writings and the secrecy of its teachings, yoga’s past is riddled with mystery and confusion. Early yoga literature were recorded on delicate palm leaves. So it was easily damaged, destroyed, or lost. Yoga’s origins may be dated back over 5,000 years. However other academics believe it could be as old as 10,000 years. Yoga’s lengthy and illustrious history may be split into four distinct periods of growth, practise, and invention.

• Pre Classical Yoga
• Classical Yoga
• Post Classical Yoga
• Modern Yoga

Yoga is a psychological science with philosophical overtones. Patanjali begins his Yoga method by instructing that the mind must be regulated – Yogahs-chitta-vritti-nirodhah. Patanjali does not delve into the intellectual underpinnings of the need to regulate one’s mind, which are found in Samkhya and Vedanta. Yoga, he continues, is the regulation of the mind, the constraint of the thought-stuff. Yoga is a science based on personal experience. The most essential advantage of yoga is that it helps us to maintain a healthy bodily and mental state.

Yoga can help to slow down the ageing process. Since aging starts mostly by autointoxication or self-poisoning. So, we can considerably limit the catabolic process of cell degeneration by keeping the body clean, flexible, and properly lubricated. Yogasanas, pranayama, and meditation must all be combined to reap the full advantages of yoga.

SUMMARY
Yoga Mudra is helpful in increase flexibility of muscles, improves shape of the body, reduce mental stress, as well improves overall health.