Synopses & Reviews
Mudras also playfully called the "finger power points" are yoga positions for your hands and fingers. They can be practiced sitting, lying down, standing, or walking. They can be done at any time and place while stuck in traffic, at the office, watching TV, or whenever you have to twiddle your thumbs waiting for something. Hirschi shows you how these techniques can prevent illness, relieve stress, and heal emotional problems.
Synopsis
Mudras--also playfully called finger power points--are yoga positions for your hands and fingers. They can be practiced sitting, lying down, standing, or walking, at any time and place. Schooled in the traditional knowledge of this eastern art of healing, well-known Swiss yoga teacher, Gertrud Hirschi, shows how these easy techniques can recharge personal energy reserves and improve quality of life. These mysterious healing gestures can calm the stress, aggravations, and frustrations of everyday life. Readers will learn how to:
- Apply these simple exercises to prevent illness and support the healing of a great variety of physical and emotional problems.
- Use mudras to promote spiritual development.
- Additionally intensify the effect with breathing exercises, a affirmations, visualizations, herbs, nutrition, music, and colors.
Also included are several full-body mudras and exercises to enhance any meditation and yoga practice.
Synopsis
A simple technique to achieve lasting health, happiness, and inner peace.
"Yoga for the hands--sounds too good to be true. Do it at the office, on an airplane, lying in bed. Seasoned yoga teacher Gertrud Hirschi has used these hand postures to ease asthma, relieve flu symptoms, think more effectively, relieve tension, and more. Like a classroom instructor, she guides readers with simultaneous breathing advice and conjures up helpful images." --Brian Bruya, Amazon.com Review
Mudras are yoga positions for your hands and fingers. They can be practiced sitting, lying down, standing, or walking, at any time and place. These mysterious healing gestures can calm the stress, aggravations, and frustrations of everyday life. Schooled in the traditional knowledge of this eastern art of healing, well-known Swiss yoga teacher, Gertrud Hirschi, shows how these easy techniques can recharge personal energy reserves and improve quality of life.
Readers will learn how to use the practice of mudras to:
- Prevent illness and ailments
- Support the healing of many emotional issues
- Promote spiritual development
- Intensify the affect with breathing exercises, affirmations, visualizations, herbs, nutrition, music, and colors therapy
Also included are several full-body mudras and exercises to enhance any meditation and yoga practice.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213) and index.