Kechari mudra (full version)

During this exercise, the language comes in staphyle (emphasis on the soft palate) and plants in the nasal cavity. Tip of the tongue presses up and down, activating some nerves in that area. Breathing is through the nose, as the mouth is blocked by language. 

One could say that tongue in this position provides "short-circuiting, switching off the energy from the medulla (base of the brain) and directing it to a point between the eyebrows -" spiritual eye "(usually the energy passes through the medulla oblongata, and then goes down and costs of all body). 

The procedure helps to awaken the kundalini and go into higher states of consciousness. It also cleanses the body, helping to achieve peace. 

With daily exercises and stretching can lengthen the tongue language for three or four months.

Nabham mudra ( "heavenly wise")

This is a simplified version of kechari wise. 

1. Sit down and take a comfortable posture for meditation, relax and close your eyes. 

2. With your mouth closed Take back the tongue to the bottom of it touched the top of the sky. Preventing stress, take the tip of the tongue as far as possible back and push them up on the back of the mouth. 

Hold this position udzhayi practicing pranayama (see Chapter 5). Do this until until you feel uncomfortable, then loosen the tongue.

Kechari Mudra ( "seal of language")

In Sanskrit, "hack" - is derived from the word "Akash" ( "space") and "Chari" - "remove". Thus kechari mudra is translated as "posture movement in space." With kechari wise consciousness becomes Akasha - the space between the astral and physical bodies. 

"Hatha yoga Pradipika" calls kechari greatest of all wisdom and argues that mastered kechari able to win a dream, hunger, thirst, sickness, old age and death. 

Traditional practices kechari (available only experienced yogis) is conducted under the guidance of a guru and includes a gradual, over several months, cutting the bottom membrane Language (Fraenum linguae), while the membrane connecting the tongue to the bottom of the mouth, not be completely cut. This is necessary in order to make the language as long as possible, so that, bending back, he could enter the upper part of the mouth of the sky. Tip of the tongue then sent to a point between the eyebrows, which converge nadi, su noisy, Ida and nurtured. 

Some very experienced yogi, laid back language runtime kechari wise, they actually close the glottis (the narrow triangular "fracture" between the vocal cords in front and on the bases and voice spikes drawn-eminent cartilage in the back). Thereby completely closed passage of air and breath control that allows you to increase the delay time of breath. 

Known that experienced yoga master this technique and fully control their mind and body, able to sit motionless, holding his breath, within 40 days. 

Sri Kriyyananda in his treatise "Fourteen Steps to Joy" wrote: "Positive and negative power of language and nasal passages, combined together, form the mind and energy cycles, which, instead let energy flow from the body, creates a magnetic field, carried away by the energy up from body and the base of the spine to the brain. " 

Note: In no case without cutting linguistic membrane. Inexperienced people practicing yoga, it is strictly prohibited. Sri Kriyyananda told the real story of what his guru, Paramhansa Yogananda lashed out against the practice, when one of his disciples began to cut the language membrane to extend the language. 

Within the language there are five major nerves, blood vessels and arteries, mucous glands and lymph vessels. Cutting the language membranes can break the nerves, and you're numb and deprive the language needed blood supply. 

Practice described here is a safer option kechari, without cutting into the language. 

Exercise to stretch the language 

1. First Take tongue back and touch the uvula (fleshy sprouts reminiscent of grape and hanging from the rear of the soft palate). Look in the mirror during the exercise to see how you do it. 

2. Fold tongue back and touch the uvula from the bottom. Close your mouth, push the base of the tongue to the sky, until you feel tension under linguistic membrane. Gently but persistently practice, avoiding stress. Engage in at any time. 

3. Touch the tip of the tongue to the sky and push it. Then start "sucking" in the language itself toward the sky. 

Fig. 16. Nabham mudra 

1 - nasal cavity 

2 - the hard palate 

3 - Language 

4 - brain 

5 - pituitary 

6 - cerebellum 

7 - soft palate 

8 - epiglottis 

9 - Throat 

10 - spinal cord 

Fig. 17. Kechari mudra 

1 - nasal cavity 

2 - the hard palate 

3 - soft palate 

4 - Language 

5 - brain 

6 - pituitary 

7 - cerebellum 

8 - epiglottis 

9 - Throat 

10 - spinal cord 

Now gently open your mouth continues to pull in the language of heaven, until you feel the tension of language membranes. 

End position of this exercise involves a wide mouth opening, when the suction is terminated, and the tongue is released with a characteristic click. 

Do this exercise 50-100 times a day. 

4. Prepare a thin clean damp cloth. Vysunte language, grasp it with a cloth and "milked" him, gently pushing and making him massage to stretch it. This is called before the Khan. 

Do this daily for two or three minutes. 

5. Carefully, but firmly Take the tip of the tongue back until you feel the tension of the membrane of language (it Chal). 

6. Take myself for language and gently rub his back teeth on the membrane. 

Do this daily one or two minutes

Vadzhroli mudra

This is a very complicated wise, we can say that it is important yoga kriya, which requires very fine control over the sexual organs. Vadzhroli consists of several stages, one of which the urethra to a depth of 25 cm is inserted into a silver tube (catheter). Through this tube, first the water is sucked through it can also suck up whole milk, even more difficult to learn to suck up the oil and honey. At the final stage achieved full control of the urethra, and the yogi in a position to suck the liquid 1 in the bladder through the urethra, and without a silver tube. Through the urethra can even suck up into the air. 

First you will need monitoring by an experienced specialist - guru. Vadzhroli mudra is very complex, and the first catheter is inserted into the urethra to a depth of only 2.5 cm, then the depth gradually increases to 5 cm and more, over time, to 25 cm purpose vadzhroli wise - full control over the sex organs and maintenance seed. To practice this advanced technique is necessary to strictly refrain from sexual relations. 

Nevertheless, there is a simplified way to perform this print: 

1. Sit in a comfortable Asana for meditation, his hands on his knees and his eyes closed. 

2. Tighten up the genitals by voltage and pull the lower abdomen and compression of sexual organs - testes in males and vagina in women. Do not strain and not Strive to compression. 

3. Compressing genitals, focus on svadhishthana chakra. 

4. Stop contraction and relax. 

Viparita penalties mudra (stand on your head or shoulders) 

1. Lie on your back, putting his hands on both sides of the body. 

2. Take a slow breath and lift the lower back at an angle of 45 °, and feet - at 90 °. Keep your body, legs, hands resting on his hips and lowering the elbows on the floor. The body should be completely relaxed, eyes closed. 

3. Make kechari wisely (see pp. 182-183); breathe at this moment under udzhayi pranayama (see Chapter 5). 

4. Take a slow breath from Manipur chakra but Visuddha chakra. 

5. Breathe out, maintaining awareness Visuddha chakra. 

6. Again, inhale from the Manipur chakra to Visuddha chakra. 

7. Continue to breathe in such a way until you feel uncomfortable, then exhale and relax. 

Of all the "inverted" poses viparipga Karani is easier. You may feel discomfort in the lungs, but it is easy to remove with a rolled-up blankets. They say that the sun will live in through the navel and the moon - near the sky, in which case, viparipga Karani Mudra puts everything on its head by moving up the sun and the moon - down. 

First, do this exercise during the entire one minute, gradually increasing the duration to five minutes or more. In the treatises on yoga say that Yogi performing this wise every day for three hours, conquers death. It is said also that he engaged in this practice for three hours daily for six months disappear in the face wrinkles and gray hair, instead of returning the old hair color. The benefit of this version: 

- Eliminates the stagnation in the spleen and liver 

- Prevents constipation, hemorrhoids, prolapse of abdominal organs and digestive disorders; 

- Increases vitality; 

- Saves the thin nectar flowing from the Sahasrara chakra, thereby renewing and cleansing the body; 

- Directs sexual energy from low to high chakras; 

- Corrects the negative effects of improper Pranayama; 

- Sends blood to the thyroid gland, providing its normal activities, increasing its viability. 

However, this exercise should not be earlier than three hours after eating, and performing a complex exercise, you should wait for half an hour, until the body a rest before starting to engage again. Viparita Karani Mudra is also contraindicated in women during the menstrual cycle and all who suffer from high blood pressure, an enlarged thyroid gland and serious heart disease.

Yoga Mudra ( "seal yoga")

1. Sit in Padmasana (lotus position "- see Chapter 8). If you can not do it, sit in a pose polulotosa - Siddhasana or even Vajrasana. Close your eyes and relax. 

2. Hands behind his back and take the left hand the right wrist. 

3. Take a slow deep breath, feeling a surge of consciousness and respiration of the Muladhara Chakra and Ajna chakras. 

4. Hold your breath for a few seconds, concentrating on the Ajna chakra. 

5. Slowly exhale Discharge head forward and back, leaning his whole body at the waist. 

6. Pressed his forehead to the floor and relax in this posture, breathing in the usual manner and focusing on the Ajna chakra. 

7. Hold this pose until you feel discomfort. Try not to strain your knees, ankles and back muscles. 

8. Inhale and come out of this situation. First, hold print one or two minutes, gradually increasing the duration to 15 minutes or more. Benefits yoga mudra: 

- Improves memory; 

- Stimulates "stomach fire"; 

- Massages the abdominal organs; 

- Stretches the spine and tones the nerves of vertebrates; 

- Tones the lungs and heart; 

- Manipura chakra awakens, 

- Prevents constipation and indigestion, improving digestion and separation

Maha Mudra (great seal ")

This is the most important of the wise, it moves the prana upward and helps awaken the Kundalini. 

1. Sit on the floor, his legs. 

2. Will place themselves under the left leg and push your heel on the anus. Pull the right foot forward and touch the toes with both hands. Hold the leg in an upright position. 

3. Take a deep breath and hold your breath, making mulabandhu and Jalandhara Bandha. 

4. Hold your breath until it causes you discomfort, directing an internal look at the point between the eyebrows (Ajna Chakra). 

5. Jalandhar disconnect first, then mulabandhu. 

6. Repeat the entire cycle of pressure on the anus of the right heel. 

7. First, make two wise with each leg, gradually increasing the number of repetitions to ten. 

Another option is the slope of the exercises and stretching of the torso. Thus it is necessary to hold on to your toes. 

If you can not pull your leg directly under him to press the heel on the anus, do Siddhasana or siddha yoni asana, pressing the heel on the perineum. 

Benefits maha mudra. 

- Stimulates a practical energy; 

- Prevent hemorrhoids, constipation, enlargement of the spleen and stomach violations; 

- Soothes the soul and body, preparing for yoga meditation. 

Maha Vedha Mudra (Mudra most penetrating ") 

In this mudra yoga permeates your consciousness chakra and nadi. 

1. Sit in Padmasana (see Chapter 8), her palms on the floor near the buttocks. 

2. Take a deep slow breath. 

3. Hold your breath and do mulabandhu and Jalandhara Bandha. Focus on the Ajna chakra. 

4. Tear away from the floor, balancing on his hands, and gently lower the buttocks on the floor. 

5. Remove the locks and make a slow exhalation. Start with two repetitions, gradually bringing their number to ten. 

Here's an option for those who can not accept pad-Masani: you have to sit pressed against the anus left heel, placing his right on the left thigh - you can just put your palms on the floor on both sides of the body and slowly raise your buttocks and then free fall to the floor. 

In terms of beneficial effects, particularly the difference between the Mach wise, Maha Vedha wise and ma-habandhoy not exist.

Yoga : Mudra

In Sanskrit the word mudra means "stamp". In "Gherand Samhita" explains 45 wise and bandh, many of which can be done only under the supervision of an experienced guru. Twelve of them are particularly important, as some of them were described above. 

Mudra benefit and body, and spirit, although used primarily for the awakening of the spirit. They adjust to the serious yoga and meditation are used for the control and direction of pranic energy in the body. 
Flank mudra ( "rolled-wise") 

1. Lie on your back, lift your legs together and Touch them to the floor behind the head. This "attitude plow" (halasana). 

2. Now Slide the feet about the width of the hips. Bend your knees and lower hips toward the chest until your knees do not touch the ears, shoulders, and sex. 

3. Firmly connect the hands behind the knees, breathe deeply and slowly, concentrating on the breath of the navel. 

4. Hold the press, until it causes you discomfort, then log off and relax. 

Try not to strain your back muscles. Do not exercise if you suffer from sciatica, high blood pressure or detached retina, as well as during the menstrual cycle. 

The benefits of this mudra is that it calms the nerves, stretches the back muscles and stimulates the nerves of the spine. It also massages the abdominal organs and tones the sexual organs. 
Ashwini mudra ( "horse seal") 

This mudra is so named because that. empty, the horse several times expands and compresses the anus. 

Phase 

1. Lie on your back and bend your knees, prying apart the feet about the width of the hips, put your feet on the floor. Hold back to the floor. In this position, the abdomen is relaxed, and now you will be easier to move to the next stage. 

2. Now, squeeze and relax the anal sphincter (which is located in the rectum). 

Repeat the contraction and relaxation a few times, then relax completely. 

Phase 

1. Now take a comfortable meditation position, close your eyes and relax. 

2. Take a deep breath and hold your breath. 

3. Squeeze for a few seconds of anal sphincter. 

4. Exhale and relax the sphincter. 

5. Relax for a few seconds, then repeat the whole process Ashwini mudra few more times. 

Stage 

1. Continuing to sit in meditation, take a deep breath and hold your breath. 

2. Rapidly and continuously tighten and relax anal sphincter as the largest possible number of times until you are able to hold their breath without much discomfort. 

3. Stop and breathe. 

Perform three cycles Ashwini mudra to 30 contractions in each, gradually increasing their number to ten to 60 contractions in each. Try not to strain. 

Benefits Ashwini mudra: 

- Strengthens the base of the pelvis and prevents prolapse of the rectum and uterus; 

- Prevents hemorrhoids, toning blood vessels in the anus; 

- Prevents constipation by stimulating peristalsis; 

- Tones the testes and the pelvic nerves; 

- Enhances mulabandhu and sends prana upward. Note that mulabandha differs from Ashwini mudra: printing does not involve the alternate compression and relaxation of the sphincter.