by Gregor Maehle | Feb 5, 2022 | Mudras
ORDER AND CATEGORIES OF MUDRAS Mudras are usually listed in no particular order, which makes the understanding of the whole category of mudra difficult. There have been attempts to define groups of mudras through their location applied, such as hands, head, postural,...
by Gregor Maehle | Jan 8, 2022 | Mudras
PURPOSES OF MUDRAS In this section I will describe the manifold purposes of mudras. They are much more diverse than the purposes of the yogic limbs of asana, pranayama or meditation, which lend themselves to be sorted into descriptive categories. Why that is the case...
by Gregor Maehle | Dec 11, 2021 | Mudras
Writing about asana, pranayama, meditation or samadhi is relative straightforward. They are sequential limbs of yoga with clear demarcations. Even within those demarcations there are reasonably clear rules in which order for example pranayama techniques or samadhis...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 27, 2021 | Society/ civilisation
I didn’t want to write about this subject but several of my students have asked me about my view. Austria (where I hope to teach in September next year) is now in the grip of the fourth wave and has introduced new lockdowns and vaccine mandates. The German health...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 13, 2021 | Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Pranayama
I am hereby presenting the eight volume or my series of yoga text books, Mudras – Seals of Yoga. I started to write this book over ten years ago, and it was to be the first volume in a Mudra, Pranayama, Meditation trilogy. Instead I changed course and focussed on...
