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Description
Maha Mudra enables us to uncover deepest mind level and use all three bandhas to direct prana or vital energy in the body.
How to:
To do this, just sit on the ground and keep your left-heel on perineum. Make sure that you do not sit on your left-heel. Now straighten your right leg perpendicular to your body. Then, grasp your right foot using both of your hands, and touch the foot by holding them firmly. Proceed to concentrate within; then turn your mind to your eyebrow centre.
Then gaze inwards and visualize clearly sushumna nadi like radiant shell, which runs vertically through central portion of body that is from top till the bottom. Now inhale and drop chin by pressing firmly to torso, along with this, hold your breath and continue to visualize sushumna nadi. Visualization is merely of psychic tube. Since, heel of foot is over perineum and your attention is focused on the central region of eyebrow, you become aware immediately of where sushumna nadi starts and ends.
Then hold your breath by raising chin and breathing out slowly. Repeat this procedure by placing your left leg straight and right-most foot on perineum. This completes the maha-mudra rounds. Make sure to visualize sushumna clearly. After finishing maha-mudra, one must perform maha-bandha.
For Maha-Bandha: Place your left-heel against perineum. Now place your right foot on your left thigh. Then inhale and place your palms on the floor. Perform this by inhaling in such a manner that you contract muscles to pull alimentary canal upwards. As in Maha Mudra, visualize sushumna, raise your chin, and exhale gradually. Finally, assuming Maha Bandha, you need to perform Maha Vedha.
For Maha Vedha: Inhale and hold your breath firmly by dropping chin into jalandhara bandha, now lift to raise buttocks from ground, with 2 palms pushing from ground. Proceed to drop buttocks to allow it to thump the floor gently.
Maha Mudra, Maha Bandha, and Maha Vedha are 3 parts of 1 exercise, which are practiced together.
Benefits
This breath yoga asana serves several health benefits such as:
Alleviates complaints in lower abdomen.
Practicing this pranayama yoga assists in relieving pain experienced at the time of menstrual cycle.
This kriya yoga is an effective for exemption from prostrate or bladder, intestinal spasms, and inactive intestines complaints.
By doing this yoga mudra, one can gain energy balancing and relaxation.
If you prefer higher level of meditation, just opt for this hatha yoga asana.
Contraindications
If you are suffering from high blood pressure or heart problems, you must not perform yoga asana.
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