Hatha Yoga Pradipika : Level 3 - Advanced Mystic Mudras

Learn the ten mystic mudras beyond hand gestures, sealing the body, mind, senses, and breath to raise kundalini, with the body itself as the ultimate mudra.

Explore the ten mudras and their benefits within kundalini and pranayama, distinguishing mudras from kriyas and preparing to learn their actual techniques.

Explore the eight powers gained through advanced mystic mudras, their signs, and the risk of ego attachment, while maintaining relaxation to prepare for deeper psychological practices.

Keep your yoga practice secret until you attain your goals, treating it as a seed that germinates into a new personality. Share your techniques with others after achieving mastery.

Perform maha mudra by pressing the left heel to the perineum and grasping the right foot. Breathe in to the stomach and exhale through alternating nostrils, cycling legs until balanced.

Explore maha mudra with mula bandha and subtle pranayama, a powerful detox that accelerates digestion and targets digestive and intestinal diseases, including leprosy, through a 16-day practice.

Keep your yogic practices secret to prevent ego inflation, avoid seeking external validation, and stay humble when practicing esoteric mudras and locks.

Delve into maha bandha with the great lock, coordinating deep inhalation, stomach retention, and brow-focused gaze; switch sides, position the tongue to form the band, and approach kedgeree modra.

Engage maha bandha to awaken kundalini and elevate consciousness. Lock breath and mind at the middle of the eyebrows, unite ida, pingala, and the middle channel.

Explore mahaavedha, the third mudra, inhaling from the lower to upper lungs while centering the mind at the zero point between the eyebrows, and uniting moon and sun for immortality.

Explore the mahavir mudra as a potent anti-aging, body-strengthening practice that amplifies prana, awakens Kundalini, and directs energy through the middle channel toward deeper meditation.

Explore the secrecy injunction for the three great mudras, learned through guru guidance or the pranayama module, and integrate ashtanga yoga’s eight limbs practices to cultivate antiaging, homeostasis, and balance.

Define khechari mudra, the space rover, unlocked by thrusting the tongue into the gullet and turning it over, with the gaze between the eyebrows; verse 33 outlines the steps.

Explains the preparation for khechari mudra and its association with the space chakra, or buma chakra, including the tongue's location near the nasal pharyngeal region.

Explore the amazing katri mudra and its claimed benefits—freedom from disease, aging, and death, beyond karma—through cosmic mudra at the space chakra, the bendu point, and zero point of time.

Explore how the Katri mudra enables the tongue and mind to access cosmic space by stabilizing the Bendu at the center of the skull, preventing borrowed consciousness from falling.

Master khechari mudra to suspend the bindu in space for 15 days, creating a cosmic zone above the elements where the body cannot die and immortality arises from self-knowledge.

Explore immortality through Khechari mudra by suspending breath, mind, and senses as the soul’s energy links to the Bendu in the cosmic zone. The episode moves into mudras and kundalini.

Examine tantra through mantra, yantra, and mudra to awaken kundalini and higher consciousness, while interpreting symbolic references to cow flesh, immortal liquor, and ego transcendence.

Practice Khechari mudra, either intensely or via a middle method, to support antiaging and a longer life by focusing the mind within kundalini and chakras.

Investigate the bindu point and soma drop above the spine’s top, mapped to Mount Meru, and follow the Bendu’s journey through Ida, Pingala, and kundalini toward immortality.

The auspicious cavity is the source of all knowledge and experience, feeding inspiration to artists, inventors, and musicians through universalized consciousness, shaping our chakras and perceptions.

Explore the unity of cosmos from a single seed and source, linking one mind, overmind, and universal consciousness through the katri mudra, while balancing tongue techniques with psychological intensity.