50 Hrs – Mudra & Mantra Chanting Teacher Training Course, Bangalore, India.

50 Hrs – Mudra & Mantra Chanting Teacher Training Course, Bangalore, India.

• Duration: 50 Hours
• Contact Hours: 40 Hours  
• Non-Contact Hours 10 Hours
• Course: 50 Hrs –  Mudra & Mantra Chanting Teacher Training Certificate Course
• Total Fee for the Training(For Indian Citizens Only): INR 05,000(Registration Fee) + INR 35,000 (Course Fee)  = INR 40,000
• Total Fee for the Training(For Non-Indian Citizens Only): USD 200(Registration Fee) + USD 400 (Course Fee)  = USD 600
• Accreditation: Yoga Alliance USA YACEP.
• Skill level: Beginners,   Intermediate & Advanced
• Self-Paced/ Flexible Duration: Online or Regular Mode.
• Language: English
• Mode: Offline/Online/Hybrid/Self-Paced
• About the course facilitator: Dr. S. Karuna Murthy, M.Sc., Ph.D., E-RYT 500, YACEP
• Language: Our courses will be held in English Medium.
• Course Dates: Please Contact Us (karunaayoga@gmail.com  or +91 9686549129)

What is Mudra Teacher Training 

Mudra means ‘seal’ or ‘Gesture’ and also medical science believes circuit by pass. It is a branch of ancient yogic science like Hatha Yoga. It has been mentioned that Mudras are more powerful than asanas and Pranayama. Several Mudras can be practised to regulate , several involuntary, physiological and biochemical activities . Today Mudra is used to cure illness, to balance body and mind.

Mudras are essential to yoga, meditation, and various Indian classical dances. They are believed to have the power to evoke specific states of mind or to bring about physical, emotional, or spiritual benefits. In this sense, mudras can be an essential tool for promoting physical and mental well-being, as well as for spiritual growth and self-realization.

In yoga and meditation, mudras are often used to focus the mind and facilitate energy flow within the body. By using specific hand gestures, practitioners can direct the flow of energy to specific areas of the body, which may help to improve physical and mental well-being.

In Indian classical dance, mudras convey specific emotions, stories, or themes. Precise hand gestures, facial expressions, and body movements help to tell a story or convey a particular message.

Overall, mudras are essential to various spiritual and cultural practices and can be a valuable tool for promoting physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Highlights of Mudra

Mudras are essential to many spiritual and cultural traditions and have been used for centuries to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Here are a few reasons why mudras may be considered necessary:

1. Mudras can be used as a tool for self-expression and communication. In Indian classical dances, for example, mudras are used to convey specific emotions or ideas through the movement of the hands.
2. Mudras can be used as a tool for meditation and mindfulness. By focusing on the position and movement of the hands, a person can bring their attention inward and cultivate a sense of presence and awareness.
3. Mudras can be used as a tool for self-healing and transformation. Many people believe that mudras have the power to evoke specific states of mind or to bring about physical, emotional, or spiritual benefits.
4. Mudras can be used to connect with cultural and spiritual traditions. By practicing mudras, people may feel connected to their cultural or spiritual heritage and have a deeper understanding of their spiritual path.

Benefits Of Mudras

Mudras are believed to have various physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits. Some of the benefits that have been attributed to mudras include:

Physical Benefits

• Reducing stress and tension: Mudras help calm the mind and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, which can positively impact the body.
• Improving circulation: Some mudras may help improve circulation and increase blood flow to different body parts.
• Promoting flexibility: Holding certain mudras for extended periods can help to improve flexibility in the fingers and wrists.
• Relieving pain: Mudras may help to relieve pain in the body, particularly in the head, neck, and shoulders.
• It’s important to note that while mudras may have some potential physical benefits, they must not be used as a substitute for medical treatment. If you are experiencing any physical discomfort or pain, you must consult a healthcare professional.

Emotional Benefits

• Reducing stress and anxiety: Mudras may help to calm the mind and reduces feelings of stress and anxiety.
• Improving mood: Mudras may help to improve mood and promote feelings of relaxation and well-being.
• Enhancing focus and concentration: By helping to quiet the mind, mudras may improve focus and concentration.
• Promoting feelings of inner peace: Mudras may help connect the individual with their inner self, leading to inner peace and tranquility.

Spiritual Benefits

• Promoting self-awareness: Mudras may help to bring the individual’s focus inward, allowing for a deeper exploration of the self.
• Enhancing spiritual practice: Mudras may enhance spiritual practice, such as meditation or yoga.
• Connecting with the divine: For some individuals, practicing mudras may help to facilitate a connection with the divine or a higher power.
• Promoting spiritual growth: By helping to quiet the mind and bring the individual’s focus inward, mudras may help to facilitate spiritual growth and self-discovery.

Course Curriculum Mudra Teacher Training

Introduction to Mudras

Learn the basics of Mudras, including its types, history, and benefits for the mind and body.

Science Behind Mudras Logical Understanding behind the principles of mudras, and practical exercises to feel the energy.

Section 1 – Fundamentals Of Hand Mudra

• Programme Overview
• Basics Of Mudras
• Basics Of Kundalini
• Basics Of Chakras
• Mudra Meditation
• Mudra in Daily Life

Section 2 – Basic Hand Mudras

• Vaayu Mudra – Mudra Of Air
• Buddhi Mudra – Mudra Of Mental Clarity
• Shunya Mudra – Mudra Of Emptiness
• Apana Mudra – Mudra Of Digestion
• Surya Mudra – Mudra Of The Sun
• Ruksha Mudra – Mudra Of Dryness
• Ushas Mudra – Mudra Of Dawn
• Akash Mudra – Mudra Of The Sky
• Prithvi Mudra – Mudra Of Earth
• Anjali Mudra – Mudra Of Prayer

 

Section 3 – Advanced Hand Mudras

• Root Chakra Mudra – Gyan Mudra
• Sacral Chakra Mudra – Shakti Mudra
• Solar Plexus Chakra Mudra – Rudra Mudra
• Heart Chakra Mudra – Lotus Mudra
• Throat Chakra Mudra – Granthita Mudra
• Third Eye Chakra Mudra – Kalesvara Mudra
• Crown Chakra Mudra – Mahamayuri Mudra
• Varun Mudra – Mudra Of Rain
• Apana Vayu Mudra – Mudra Of The Heart
• Dhyana Mudra – Mudra Of Meditation
• Linga Mudra – Mudra Of Heat
• Praana Mudra Of Life
• Hand Mudras For Major Common Ailments

 

Section 4 –  Five Tattwas & Their Mudras

• Prithvi Tattva: Strengthening with Prithvi Mudra.
• Jala Tattva: Enhance life force with Prana Mudra.
• Agni Tattva: Ignite wisdom with Gyan Mudra.
• Vayu Tattva: Eliminate pain with Shoonya Vayu Mudra.
• Akash Tattva: Detox with Apana and Dhyan Mudra.

Section 5 – Hatha Yoga Mudra

Introduction

Mudras and prana

A scientific look at mudras

Five Groups of Yoga Mudras

1. • Hasta (hand mudras)
     • • Jnana mudra
     • • Chin mudra
     • • Bhairava mudra
     • • Hridaya mudra
     • • Chin Mudra while chanting ‘AAAA’
     • • Chinmaya Mudra while chanting ‘UUUU’
     • • Adi Mudra while chanting ‘MMMM’
     • • Brahma Mudra while chanting ‘AUM’

• • Mana (head mudras)
    • • Shambhavi mudra
    • • Nasikagra drishti
    • • Khechari mudra
    • • Shanmukhi mudra

• • Kaya (postural mudras)
    • • Vipareeta karani mudra
    • • Pashinee mudra
    • • Prana mudra
    • • Yoga mudra
    • • Manduki mudra
    • • Tadagi

• • Bandha (lock mudras)
    • • Maha mudra
    • • Maha bheda mudra
    • • Maha vedha mudra.

• • Adhara (perineal mudras)
    • • Ashwini mudra

Section 6 – Daily Health  Mudra

a. Chin Mudra while chanting ‘AAAA’

b. Chinmaya Mudra while chanting ‘OU’

c.  Adi Mudra while chanting ‘MMMM’

d. Brahma Mudra while chanting ‘AUM’

2.1. Mudras

Mudras and Chakras

1. Mooladhara Mudra (Root Chakra Gesture)

2. Swadhisthana Mudra (Sacral Chakra Gesture)

3. Manipura Mudra (Solar Plexus Chakra Gesture)

4. Anahata Mudra  (Heart  Chakra  Gesture)

5. Hridaya Mudra (Compassionate Heart Gesture)

6. Vishuddha Mudra (Throat Chakra Gesture)

7. Ajna Mudra (Brow Chakra Gesture)

8. Vayu Mudra (Air Gesture)

9.Vyana Mudra (Expansive Prana Gesture)

11. Pranapana Mudra (Taking In and Throwing Out Gesture)

12. Udana Mudra (Upward Flying Energy Gesture)

13. Prana Mudra (Life Force Gesture)

14. Apana Mudra (Cleansing Energy Gesture)

15. Agni Mudra (Fire Gesture)

16. Linga Mudra (Mark of Siva)

17. Surya Mudra (Sun Seal)

18. Bhramara Mudra(Humming Bee Gesture)

19. Pushan Mudra (Giver of Good Health)

20. Kamajayi Mudra (Victory over Excessive Desires Gesture)

21. Shankha Mudra (Conch Shell Gesture)

22. Shunya Mudra(Silence of the Void Gesture)

23. Garuda Mudra (Eagle Gesture)

24. Kshepana Mudra (Letting Go Gesture)

25. Akasha Mudra (Touching the Void Gesture)

26. Shunya Mudra (Silence of the Void Gesture)

27. Bhu Mudra (Touching the Earth Gesture)

28. Kaleshwara Mudra (Lord of Time Gesture)

29. Prithivi Mudra (Earth Gesture)

30. Sukham Mudra (Stress Relief Gesture)

31. Vishnu Mudra (Universal Balance Gesture)

32. Varuna Mudra (Water-Balancing Gesture)

33. Jalodar Nashak Mudra (Water Reducing Gesture)

34. Mahatrika Mudra (Great Triangle Gesture)

35. Shakti Mudra (Essence of Power Gesture)

36. Ganesha Mudra (Remover of Obstacles)

37. Namaskar Mudra (My Essence Meets Your Essence Gesture)

38. Mandala Mudra (Circle Universe Gesture)

 

 Yoga Mantra Chanting Certificate Course

 

This Certificate course is ideal for any individual or classes who teach Yoga and want to introduce Mantra chanting in their curriculum along with regular Yoga practice.  The Mantra chanting generates vibration within us the power to attain our goal and lift ourselves from the human consciousness to the higher level of divine consciousness. During chanting the frequency of sound vibrates all along the axis of the body from the perineum mooladhara chakra up through the head saharasa chakra, giving access to subtle and deep sensation and feeling which naturally suspends the normal state of the anxiety and depressed mind.

Chanting helps you develop the energy of faith to do and achieve anything which is positive for you in your life. This energy generates the belief, confidence and determination in your own self. A beneficial method to develop this is energy is by chanting mantras knowing their meanings. It will give the most advantageous benefits if one chants mantra with their meanings in mind.

Mantra and Pranayama

The breath is the most natural mantra one can realize by breath awareness technique. To be connected to ones breath is to be connected to ones thoughts of mind. This is why correct breathing is essential for chanting. In this session, we will focus on how using repetitive (japa) mantra combined with pranayama brings vitality and awareness in both the physical and subtle body.  Pranayama techniques,  Includes Nadi Shodhana, Sheetali and Sheetkari and Bhramari.

Chanting Rules and Techniques

1. 1. Varnam

1. 1. Maatra

1. 1. Balam

1. 1. Saamam

1. 1. Samthaanam

1. 1. Swaram

Mantra and Meditation

The practice of mantra meditation utilizes the silent repetition of a sacred word or phrase as the point of focus to help ones self-awareness. It helps in the slowing down of mental activity and thought, creates peaceful and blissful state of mind.

To whom this course for?

• • Beginners If you’re looking to start a traditional meditation, chanting and pranayama practice to gain more clarity, calm and focus…this is the course for you.

• • Yoga practitioners If you already have a yoga practice and want to go deeper with traditional practices from India this the perfect course to start that journey.

• • Aspiring Yoga Teachers This course has been designed with Yoga Teacher Training elements and will prepare you well for the meditation, chanting and pranayama elements of your training.

Pre-Requisites:

• • This course is open to all students who wish to deepen their knowledge and application of some of the highest teachings of Participants do not need to be yoga teachers.

• • Mastery of any yoga practice is not

• • Only your sincere desire for knowledge and your commitment to personal

• • Even if you do not wish to are required be a yoga teacher, you may attempt this course to deepen the understanding of the philosophies as well as for the intense purification experience and for the personality

What you’ll learn from this course

• • By the end of this course students would be able to chant 20 Mantras.

• • Know the points in Yoga Classes where one should incorporate Mantra Chanting.

• • Recite the meanings of the Mantras and proper pronunciation of Mantras.

• • Establish peace and harmony in the class and relieve students from stress.

• • You will learn mantra pranayama and mediation techniques.

Assessment and Certification

The students are continuously assessed throughout the course at all levels. There will be a written exam at the end of the course to evaluate the understanding of the philosophy of Yoga and skills of the students. Participants should pass all different aspects of the course to be eligible for the course diploma.

Recommended Texts

• • Japa Yoga, Swami Sivananda, Divine Life Society.

• • Mantra and Meditation, Swami Vishnu Devananda.

Yoga Mantra Chanting Syllabus – Part – 1

• • Meaning of Mantras.

• • Importance of Mantras in daily life.

• • Why we do Mantra Chanting?

• • A technique of Mantra Chanting.

• • Benefits of Mantra chanting.

• • Patanjali Yoga Sutras Chanting (selected verses)

• • Bhagavad-Gita Chanting (selected verses)

• • Pratahsmarana Stotra

• • Gayathri Mantra

• • Santhi Mantras

• • Surya Namaskara Mantra

• • Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra

• • Astanga Yoga Mantra

• • Mangala Mantra

• • Guru Mantra

• • Dhyana Mantra

• • Pranayama Mantra

• • Surya Namaskara Mantras

• • Bhojana Mantra

• • Ganesh Mantra

Yoga Mantra Chanting Syllabus – Part – 2

Mantras for daily life

1. On Waking Early Morning

karāgre vasate lakṣmiḥ karamadhye sarasvati .

karamūle tu govindaḥ prabhāte karadarśanam .

2. Before you step on the floor

samudravasane devi parvata sthana maṇḍale .

viṣṇupatni namastubhyaṃ pāda sparśaṃ kṣamasvame ..

3. While taking a bath

goviṃdeti sadā snānaṃ goviṃdeti sadājapaṃ .

goviṃdeti sadā dhyānaṃ sadā goviṃda kīrtanam .

gaṅge cha yamune chaiva godāvari sarasvati .

narmade sindhu kāveri jalesmin saṃnidhiṃ kuru .

4. Seeing the Sun

āditya hrdayaṃ puṇyaṃ sarvaśatru vināśanam

jayāvahaṃ japennityaṃ akśhayyaṃ paramaṃ śivaṃ||

oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat saviturvareṇyaṃ

bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt.

5. Morning Prayers

śuklāmbaradharaṃ viṣṇuṃ śaśivarṇaṃ caturbhujam .

prasannavadanaṃ dhyāyet sarvavighnopaśāntaye

Tvam eva mātā cha pitā tvam eva .

Tvam eva bandhuśca sakhā tvam eva

Tvam eva vidyā draviṇaṃ tvam eva .

Tvam eva sarvaṃ mama deva deva .

kāyena vāchā manaseṃdriya irvā budhyātmanā vā prakṛteḥ svabhāvāt .

karomi yadyat sakalaṃ parasmai nārāyaṇāyeti samarpayāmi .

asato mā sadgamaya tamasomā jyotir gamaya

mrityormāamritam gamaya Oṁ śhānti śhānti śhāntiḥ

6. Before any meal

Bhojana Mantra

Aham vaiŚvānaro bhūtvā

prāṇinām dehamāsritaḥ,

Prāṇāpana sāmayuktaḥ

pacāmyannam caturvidham.

Annapūrṇe Sadāpūrṇe

Śankara prāṇavallabhe,

Jñāna vairāgya siddhyartham

Bhikṣām dehi ca pārvati.

Brahmārpaṇam Brahma haviḥ

Brahmāgnau Brahama ṇāhutam,

Brahmai vatena gantavyam

Brahmakarma samādhinā.

Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ.

7. Before Study

sarasvati namastubhyaṃ varade kāmarūpiṇi .

vidyārambhaṃ kariṣyāmi siddhirbhavatu me sadā

8. Before an important task

vakratuṇḍa mahākāya sūryakoṭi samaprabha

nirvighnaṃ kuru me deva sarvakāryeṣu sarvadā

9. Before going to bed

Kara charaṇa kṛtaṃ vāk kaya jaṃ karmajaṃ vā.

śravaṇa nayana jaṃ vā mānasaṃ vā aparādhaṃ .

vihitam avihitaṃ vā sarvam etat kṣamasva .

jaya jaya karuṇā abdhe śrī mahādeva śambho.

oṃ sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ sarve santu nirāmayāḥ .

sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu mā kaścidduḥkhabhāgbhavet .

oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ ..

rāmaṃ skandhaṃ hanumantaṃ vainateyaṃ vṛkodaraṃ |

śayane yaḥ smare nnityam dushwapna stasya naśyati ‖

About the course facilitator

Dr. S. Karuna Murthy, M.Sc., Ph.D., E-RYT 500, YACEP

How to Register?

You can apply online with the application, fee of INR 10,000 (non-refundable) advance towards the course fee or Please Contact Us (karunaayoga@gmail.com  or +91 9686549129)