Yoga Practice Name
Yoni Mudra
Yoga Practice Branch
Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga
Yoga Practice Type
Hatha Yoga Category
Mudra
Steps and Description
- Assume a comfortable meditation posture with the head and spine straight.
- Place the palms of the hands together with the fingers and thumbs straight and pointing away from the body.
- Keeping the pads of the index fingers together, turn the little, ring and middle fingers inwards so that the backs of the fingers are touching.
- Interlock the little, ring and middle fingers then bring the thumbs towards the body and join the pads of the fingers together to form the base of a yoni or womb shape.
General Benefits
- The interlocking of the fingers in this practice creates a complete cross connection of energies from the right hand into the left and vice versa.
- Balances the energies in the body, it helps balance the activities of the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
- Placing the tips of the index fingers and thumbs together further intensifies the flow of prana.
- This mudra makes the body and mind more stable in meditation and develops greater concentration, awareness and internal physical relaxation.
Benefits for Disease
Depression