Mudras are yoga positions, gestures, and seals for your hands and fingers that facilitate health, healing, psychological balance and spiritual transformation. Some mudras use the whole body and breath. They are effective, easy to learn, practical and powerful, and anyone can do them.
This hand mudra is called Purna Hridaya. It can help promote mental/emotional stability. Breath capacity and the immune system also can improve. It can bring relief when you’re feeling the blues.
How to do the Purna Hridaya hand mudra
- Hold your palms in front of your heart with your fingers pointing upwards.
- Interlace your knuckles inward at the upper joint.
- Make sure the right index finger is closest to your heart.
- Stretch your thumbs downward and touch their tips to form the shape of a heart.
This 4-minute video explains more.
Buy a video download of Yoga Nidra for Emotional Wellbeing that uses Purna Hridaya hand mudra.
https://youtu.be/QZhzWTNcu7Y
More about Hand Mudras
- Intro to Yoga Mudras (beneficial yoga hand gestures / postures for the hands)
- Yoga mudra handout: Description, uses, how to’s, & mudras for physical and emotional health. (pdf)
- How to do mudras for:
- Allergy Relief: Bhramara Mudra
- Achieving Goals, Finding Objects & more: Kubera Mudra for Confidence
- Energy, confidence and courage and reducing fatigue and nervousness: Pran Mudra
- Headaches: Mahasirs Yoga Mudra
- Temperature Control, Stamina and Equilibrium: Ring Finger Mudra
- Brain-Body Balance, Problem-Solving, Focus: Hakini Mudra
- Contentment: Vishnu Mudra and Nasagra Mudra for Alternate Nostril Breathing / Nadi Shodhana / Nadi Suddhi
- Elemental and Chakra Meditation using hand movements, color, sound, and intention.
