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Mahamudra

Also called Mahamudra stretching

Lahiri's stretch before meditation, three rounds.

From Mahamudra - Stretching is most important for Heart health

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Picked by hand for what each one teaches, not by how often the word is said.

Where it comes up

31 videos name Mahamudra, the ones that teach it first. Each moment opens the video at that second.

01:46“Next, we want to do some stretching, and this is the Mahamudra, the great stretch.”Teaches, Five Step Meditation - Yogi Explains, May 202603:25“So in Kriya Yoga, it's no secret we have the Mahamudra.”Teaches, Stretching Is Magic - Yogi Explains, Dec 202400:50“So the very first insurance policy is the Mahamudra.”Teaches, 3 Insurance Policies In the Original Kriya Yoga, Oct 202300:38“So the first stretch I want to mention is the Mahamudra stretch, the greatest stretch ever”Teaches, Reversing Lower Back Pain - Yogi Explains, Jun 202206:06“We want to take the left leg, stretch it out, breathe in, grasp the toes.”Teaches, Mahamudra - Stretching is most important for Heart health, Dec 201802:13“And so we want to bring in the elements of the Mahamudra stretching.”Discusses, Weekend Retreat From Home - Yogi Explains, May 202302:04“I'm going to stretch the body with the forward bend with mahamudra, and then I'm going to do some navi.”Mentions, Outwitting Dullness In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Feb 202610:53“So stretching Mahamudra, then try on some Navi Kriya.”Mentions, Where To Put Your Mind In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Nov 202507:05“In some Kriya lineages, they're still doing some Mahabandha in their Mahamudra.”Mentions, Maha Bandha Is NOT Recommended - Yogi Explains, Aug 202520:19“let's do some Mahamudra, let's do some more Navi”Mentions, Gantlet of Sleep In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Dec 202403:29“You're doing the three insurance policies, Mahamudra, Navi, and Om Japa in the chakras.”Mentions, Roll-up of Consciousness Testing - Yogi Explains, Nov 202404:30“And it's happening because of the yogic processes that we are doing, the low-idle-state, and the cleaning out of our psychology through the OM Japa in the chakras, the Navi Kriya, the Mahamudra.”Mentions, Peace First, Not Happiness - Yogi Explains, Sep 202409:14“Yes, because this showed up over and over in other systems, but we don't have those statues in Kriya Yoga because we're getting back to the dorsal vagal, and we're cleaning everything out, and we're cleaning out the fear with Navi, and we're doing the stretching of Mahamudra”Mentions, When Kundalini Goes Wrong - Yogi Explains, Aug 202402:03“I certainly wasn't doing enough of the Mahamudra.”Mentions, My Grounding Crisis Story, May 202417:08“Mahamudra, which is on this channel, Navi Kriya.”Mentions, Using the Crown In Kriya - Yogi Explains, Mar 202417:01“What if you put Mahamudra and Navi Kriya right before this formula, prepare the body a little more through stretching, right?”Mentions, Best Meditation Formula On Earth! - Yogi Explains, Mar 202412:57“Do the Mahamudra.”Mentions, No OM Japa = Negative Results - Yogi Explains, Feb 202416:12“Mahamudra, Navi Kriya, Om Japa in the chakras.”Mentions, Meeting MA - OM King - Yogi Explains, Feb 202416:22“Mahamudra, Navi Kriya, Om Japa in the chakras.”Mentions, Vibrational State In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Feb 202412:08“No, no, the Mahamudra, the Navi, and the Kriya, these are the prep.”Mentions, Kriya Yoga Is Not Visualization - Yogi Explains, Jan 202409:43“I'm going to do the Mahamudra.”Mentions, Celebrating the Life of Kevin, Jan 202408:00“I did some Mahamudra.”Mentions, First Hot Then Cool In Kriya Yoga - Yogi Explains, Oct 202308:34“So some mahamudra stretching is very advised because this will help all of the flow through the body, right?”Mentions, Kundalini Disturbance Program - Yogi Explains, Jun 202317:52“If you're getting that first sensation and it's too, too, too much, like it was for me, slow down on your regular meditation, whatever it is, and just do stretching, the Mahamudra, and just do Navi, the Guardian video, okay?”Mentions, Energy Omnibus - Yogi Explains, May 202312:22“Now Kriya Yoga has some fabulous insurance policies, and I think I'm the only one that says this insurance policy phrase, but it's built into the Kriya, this beautiful insurance policy for you, the meditator, that it's going to come out correctly, and that is Om Japa in the chakras, that's Navi Kriya in the third chakra, and that's Mahamudra, the stretching, those three wonderful things, and the Kriya therapy that I talk about, which is an extension of the Om Japa in all of the chakras, that that is inside of the Kriya.”Mentions, The Kriya Yoga Bliss Program - Yogi Explains, Apr 202315:46“So I do my Mahamudra stretching, then I do my Navi, then I do my Kriya, and most importantly, then I expand.”Mentions, The Guardian In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Feb 202308:51“So what I'd like you to do is start with the mahamudra stretching, and there's a video for that if you don't know what it is.”Mentions, Best Meditation Advice Ever - Bro. Dharmananda, Feb 202301:17“So the very first thing that we want to do when we're going to sit to meditate is spend a little bit of time stretching out the body, and that's going to limber up our our form, and it's going to help the mind to relax from the body more quickly and more easily, and you'll be able to stay in your meditation posture a little bit longer because you did the preliminary stretching, and that's mahamudra.”Mentions, Pratyahara Myths of Sensory Withdrawal, Jan 202304:54“Do the mahamudra stretching.”Mentions, All of the Freeze Response - Pratyahara - Yogi Explains, Sep 202201:34“This mahamudra, I'm going to stretch before every single meditation.”Mentions, Mind Reading Power - Yogi Explains, Aug 202205:25“Watch the Mahamudra video that I have, right?”Mentions, It's All Hakalau - It's All the Right Brain!, Aug 2022
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