Mudra: The Sacred Gestures of Yoga

by Indu Arora

Discover the grounding power of mudras: 25 sacred hand gestures to guide your energy, and focus and calm your mind in the midst of daily life. With 25 instructional photos.

The third volume in the Yoga Masters Series, which offers the timeless wisdom of essential yoga practices for the contemporary seeker.

This concise guide to mudra, the subtle practice of sacred hand gestures, offers an inspiring and practical view on how to bring mudras into your yoga practice and into your everyday life. Many spiritual traditions incorporate hand gestures to calm the body, focus the mind, and set the intention in prayer or practice. Mudras in the yogic tradition also tap into the energy of the subtle body through channels called nadis. Stimulating the nadis balances and harmonizes the life current in the body, to maintain a healthy state of mind and body.

This manual offers Indu Arora’s expert guidance and down-to-earth wisdom on exploring mudras. She draws from Yogic and Tantric texts, and offers techniques for using mudras with asana, praṇayama, and meditation practices for therapeutic purposes and everyday life. This book explores the following subjects:

The purpose of mudra in yoga practice, and how you integrate mudra before, during, and after asana practice

Mudras for therapeutic purposes such as dosha balance, digestion, sleep, immunity, and heart health, to regulate breathing, curb anxiety, and more.

How to use a mala in mudra practice

Which mudras best support meditation

And much more

176 pages, Paperback

Expected publication April 27, 2027

About the author

Indu Arora is a Yoga and Ayurveda educator, mentor, and author. She considers herself a student for a lifetime. Indu has been sharing about Yoga philosophy, Yoga Therapy, and Ayurveda for more than 25 years. Her unique gift is making Yoga and Ayurveda a practice, which is equally useful for a beginner as for a sincere seeker who has made Yoga a lifelong journey. She is inspired by and taught under Kriya Yoga, Himalayan Yoga, Kashmir Shiavism, and Sivananda Yoga lineages. She has studied in a traditional Guru-shishya parampara setting.

Her teaching style is rooted in empowering and inspiring students to awaken the inner Guru. Her core philosophy is ‘Yoga is a Work-in and not a Work-out’.

She is the author of
Mudra: The Sacred Secret
Yoga: Ancient Heritage, Tomorrow’s Vision
SOMA: 100 Heritage Recipes for Self-Care

www.yogsadhna.com