Yoga Practice Name
Jnana Mudra
Yoga Practice Branch
Ashtang Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga
Yoga Practice Type
Hatha Yoga Category
Mudra
Steps and Description
- Attain a comfortable meditation posture.
- Fold the index fingers so that they touch the tip of the thumbs.
- Straighten the other three fingers of each hand so that they are relaxed and slightly apart.
- Lace the hands on the knees. Relax the hands and arms.
Practice Keynotes
- While doing this mudra focus on your breathing and mind.
- Keep your spine and neck straight.
Cautions and Limitations
- Don't push the tips of fingers and thumbs of both hands, just make an easy contact.
- Don't have to make your fingers hard and straight, just make them relax.
Contraindications
- This mudra should be adopted whenever practising meditation, unless otherwise specified.
General Benefits
- Jnana mudra is simple but important psycho-neural finger locks which make meditation asanas more powerful.
- The palms and fingers of the hands have many nerve root endings which constantly emit energy.
- When the finger touches the thumb, a circuit is produced which allows the energy that would normally dissipate into the environment to travel back into the body and up to the brain.
- It stablizes the nervous system.
- It brings calm to a stressful mind.
