Root Chakra
Muladhara
Bring your hands together, touching the tips of your thumbs and the tips of your index fingers. Then create a circular shape by joining index fingers to your thumbs, forming a small ring. The remaining fingers should stay extended and relaxed. Enhances your sense of stability, security, and overall well-being.
Prithvi
Touch the tip of your ring finger (the fourth finger) to the tip of your thumb, applying gentle pressure. Keep the other three fingers extended and relaxed. Helps you connect with the grounding and stabilizing energy of the earth while also aiding in be??er digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Sacral Chakra
Varuna
Bring your hand(s) in front of your chest, close to your heart. Gently bend your index finger and thumb inward so that their tips touch. Keep your three remaining fingers extended and together. Helps balance the water element in your body and promote balance, harmony and emotional equilibrium.
Shakti
Touch and fold down the tips of your thumb, index finger, and middle finger together while keeping your other two fingers extended and touching the tips of the opposite fingers. Helps reduce insomnia and stress. Also helps you to tap into your inner energy which can promote spiritual growth.
Solar Plexus Chakra
Rudra
Curl your index finger and ring finger toward your palm, gently touching the tips of these fingers to the tip of your thumb. Extend your middle finger and little finger straight, pointing outwards. Helps to improve your clarity of mind, and relieve dizziness, high blood pressure, vertigo and vision problems.
Agni (aka Surya)
Tuck the tip of your ring finger into your palm and place your thumb on the back of your ring finger. Keep your index, middle and pinky fingers extended straight up. Helps with digestion, weight-loss, and constipation issues while also improving your metabolism and energy levels overall.
Heart Chakra
Anjali
Place your hands together with your palms facing each other, where the palm, fingers and thumb of one hand touches the other, then bring your hands to the center of your chest to your heart chakra area. Helps you to feel connected and is both an invitation and a blessing for what enters your life.
Hridaya
Bend your index finger into the base of the thumb, then place the tips of your middle finger, ring finger and thumb together while extending your pinky up and away. Helps revitalize the heart and regulates blood pressure while also opening the heart to better handle your feelings, and release your emotions.
Throat Chakra
Granthita
Place hands together and use your index fingers and thumbs to form rings around the opposite thumb and index finger, and then interlock all remaining fingers while keeping palms apart. Helps to relieve stress, improve sleep and works to improve your overall capacity to express yourself as it activates your Throat Chakra.
Aakash
Place together the tips of your thumbs and middle fingers and extend your remaining fingers straight upwards. Helps you release blocked energy, and to balance the space that exists between the water, earth, air and fire elements within you. Also helps you to connect your physical space with your spiritual space.
Third Eye Chakra
Hakini
Place the tips of your left fingers and right fingers together, and bring your hands up to chest height. Enhances concentration by stimulating your third eye, which helps you to work at a higher intuitive level. This benefits anything you are doing. Also enhances your clarity by literally helping things to be seen more clearly.
Gyan (aka Chin)
Place the tips of your index finger and your thumb together to form a circle and extend the three remaining fingers outwards. Then place your hands on your knees or lap and face your fingers upwards. Helps to redirect your energy inwards by putting you into a more receptive place. Also improves mental capacity.
Crown Chakra
Thousand Petals
Place your hands above your head, with the back of your hands facing you, and touch the index finger and thumb of one hand to the other, and then spread apart and extend the remaining fingers outward. This helps you to experience an awakening since it acts as a gateway to universal consciousness.
Padma (aka Lotus)
Place your palms together and press both the index fingers and thumbs together, and extend the remaining fingers outwards and spread apart. Looks like a blossoming lotus. Helps to calm you, relieve stress, and reminds you of your divine essence as it opens your mind to be more receptive.