Category: Category 1 Mudras

Open the mouth wide and take the air in through the throat. (Draw the air in and out through mouth without holding in). This mudra slows down the ageing. Diseases of the stomach and constipation etc. are especially cured faster with Bhujangini Mudra.

Stay in the the water up to neck, take the water in through the nose and throw it out through the mouth. Then take water in mouth and throw it out from nose. Repeat it several times. This mudra slows down the ageing. The sadhaka of this mudra will live happily where ever he lives.

Make lips like beak of a crow and take air in slowly. (The air is drawn in and out from mouth). It cures many diseases and keeps a person free from diseases like a crow.

This mudra is done by contracting in and pushing out the rectum again and again as a horse does after discharging waste. This mudra enhances strength and curses all disorders of rectum.

Bend the head forward and move the tip of the tongue up towards to uvula and slowly consume the nectar secreted from the Sahasrara-kamal (skull).

Contract the stomach in and make it like a deep pit there. Breathe out and hold it in this way. With the practice of this mudra one becomes free from old age and diseases.

Sun lies in the root of the navel, (solar nerve/solar plexus) and the moon (the lunar nerve) lies in mouth at the root of palate. The sun with its radiance pulls and consumes the nectar, which is secreted by the body and man is overpowered by death. To save that nectar, the sun is lifted up and the moon is lowered down, it is known as the Viparitkari Mudra. The method to do it is such that one should stabilize head on a small cushion on the ground in between palms of both the hands and raise feet upwards and stand straight on head. One who does this mudra every-day, the old age does not bother him.

Tongue and the root of the tongue is joined by a nerve underneath it. This can be cut off under the supervision of the Guru. Then move the front and lower part of the tongue and pull the tongue slowly with fingers and with a pair of iron tongs as well. By doing this the tongue gradually becomes longer and with the regular practice lengthen it to such an extent that it reaches between the eyebrows. The take the tip of the tongue into the center of the palate (the passage where the nasal tracts and throat meet). There is a place like a pit, which is called Kapal Kuhar. Enter the  tongue into this place upwards and look at the center of eyebrows. This is called the Khechari mudra. Those people who practice Khechari Mudra would never feel hunger, thirst, laziness and drowsiness. Diseases and old age never come to them. It prolongs life also.

A yogi even while busy in doing anything, keeps the tip of the tongue upwards in contact with uvula and breathes comfortably. The regular practice of this mudra keeps a yogi free from all diseases.