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Mahamudra, (maha = great, mudra = sacred gesture) demonstrated by the great Krishnamacharya.
Mahamudra is a highly regarded asana that is practiced at the end of one’s vinyasa. Mahamudra is not the same as a seated forward bend in that the spine is kept straight.
Mahamudra is only mahamudra where there are all three bandha active. As in all asana the breath is the gage (or guru). That is: posture is measured by the number of breaths and breath ratio that can be accomplished without struggle. “Obey your breath. Obey your guru”.
Bandha is placed in the retentions after inhalation and exhalation without compromising the easy continuity of breath. Retentions with bandha can lengthen as our practice strengthens; or shorten when there is less strength.
This asana is good during pregnancy. It is very strengthening to the whole body to carry baby before & after birth.
It is the great sacred gesture because in jalandhara bandha the head and mind give over to their source, the Hridaya heart in the descending energy of receptivity. While the strength of lower bandha, mulabandha and uddiyanabandha serve the heart in the ascending energy of strength. Where the descending and ascending energies are perfectly merged is the heart’s location, Hridaya. From here the whole body / mind arise in the perfect flow of the heart’s energy, spiraling Prana / nurturing like a flower unfolding in all directions as the whole body. This is kundalini.
Praised in the text hathayogaoradapika it is said that mahamudra is like hitting kundalini with a stick, “she straightens”. However that text is created by a misogynist male cult that plagiarized previous ancient Tantras to justify their view of dominance over nature and the feminine. Sublimating the “so called lower” chakras to “awaken” so called higher, this attitude has prevailed, dominated and toxified yoga teaching and public behavioral patterning to this day.
No, kundalini is only awakened through participation in the perfect collaboration of female and male polarity, one given to the other, one empowering the other. strength that is utterly receptive the heart flows. Kundalini arises from the heart not the base.

Mahamudra, (maha = great, mudra = sacred gesture) demonstrated by the great Krishnamacharya.

Mahamudra is a highly regarded asana that is practiced at the end of one’s vinyasa. Mahamudra is not the same as a seated forward bend in that the spine is kept straight.
Mahamudra is only mahamudra where there are all three bandha active. As in all asana the breath is the gage (or guru). That is: posture is measured by the number of breaths and breath ratio that can be accomplished without struggle. “Obey your breath. Obey your guru”.
Bandha is placed in the retentions after inhalation and exhalation without compromising the easy continuity of breath. Retentions with bandha can lengthen as our practice strengthens; or shorten when there is less strength.
This asana is good during pregnancy. It is very strengthening to the whole body to carry baby before & after birth.
It is the great sacred gesture because in jalandhara bandha the head and mind give over to their source, the Hridaya heart in the descending energy of receptivity. While the strength of lower bandha, mulabandha and uddiyanabandha serve the heart in the ascending energy of strength. Where the descending and ascending energies are perfectly merged is the heart’s location, Hridaya. From here the whole body / mind arise in the perfect flow of the heart’s energy, spiraling Prana / nurturing like a flower unfolding in all directions as the whole body. This is kundalini.
Praised in the text hathayogaoradapika it is said that mahamudra is like hitting kundalini with a stick, “she straightens”. However that text is created by a misogynist male cult that plagiarized previous ancient Tantras to justify their view of dominance over nature and the feminine. Sublimating the “so called lower” chakras to “awaken” so called higher, this attitude has prevailed, dominated and toxified yoga teaching and public behavioral patterning to this day.
No, kundalini is only awakened through participation in the perfect collaboration of female and male polarity, one given to the other, one empowering the other. strength that is utterly receptive the heart flows. Kundalini arises from the heart not the base.