Pushan Mudra
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Pushan Mudra
Pushan Mudra is the mudra dedicated to the sun god, Pushan who is also the god of nourishment. This mudra utilizes two different versions for your right hand and the left hand is practiced the same in both versions. For your left hand, you practice this mudra by connecting the tips of the thumb, middle and ring fingers and extending the index and pinkie fingers. For version 1: the right hand connects the tips of the thumb, index and middle fingers and extends the ring and pinkie fingers (shown in photo). For version 2: the right hand connects the tips of the thumb, ring and pinkie fingers and extends the index and middle fingers.
Pushan Mudra is the mudra of nourishment and fulfillment. This mudra symbolizes accepting and receiving with the gesture of one hand and letting things flow, giving, and letting go with the gesture of the other.
Over the last year I've been working with the sankalpa of healing. Every time a yoga teacher encouraged us to set an intention at the beginning of class, I thought of the word healing.
During a recent yoga nidra practice, healing was my sankalpa for practice. Sankalpas are intentions or vows we set and they have a powerful affect over our samskaras or our deep-seated thought patterns. We repeat notions about ourselves and they further strengthen our samskaras. This is why it is so hard to change habits and to stop repeating the same rhetoric about ourselves. We need Sankalpas to rewrite our thoughts and change unhealthy patterns into healthy ones. I know my sankalpa of healing drew me to Ayurveda. Ayurveda has helped me to heal and continues to do so. When I started learning about Ayurveda it was like the sun shining through after a long rain storm. Everything made so much sense. It's said that Ayurveda gives us the language to what we already know. I know that I have the power to create new, healthy intentions that have the ability to change harmful thoughts and actions. I am healing.
“I thankfully accept everything that is good for me, let it have its effect within me, and release everything that is spent.”