Mudras: Yoga in Your Hands

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Weiser Books, May 1, 2000 - Health & Fitness - 223 pages
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, affirmations, visualizations, herbs, nutrition, music and colors
Also included are several fully-body mudras and exercises to enhance any meditation and yoga practice.
 

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Gertrud Hirschi teaches yoga in accordance with the latest medical findings at her own yoga school in Zurich, and she holds seminars in Switzerland, Germany, and Greece.

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