Mula bandha yoga

A bandha is a type of body lock that is often used in yoga. There are four main types of bandhas, and they are often used in conjunction with each other. The four main types of bandhas are: mula bandha, uddiyana bandha, jalandhara bandha, and bhujangasana bandha. Bandhas can be used to help improve your yoga practice by helping to engage and support your core muscles, improving your alignment, and providing stability and balance.

If you perform Mula Bandha, Uddiyana Bandha, and Jalandhara Bandha at the same time, you are performing Maha Bandha, which translates as the Great Lock.

In this video Flo is guiding you through uddiyana bandha kriya, which is one of the three locks in your body and said to be the pre-nauli kriya. Uddiyana bandha helps regulate the upward energy from mula banda as well as the downward energy from jalandara bandha. Doing this exercise you will likely will cleansed, purified, energizes and focused. Flo practices this every morning as part of his breathwork (pranayama) practice. #breathwork #pranayama

Some Sanskrit words have successfully made it into our pop culture. One of the terms that seem to be thrown around a lot is mula bandha. You’ll hear a teacher instruct you to “engage your mula bandha” in various poses, while what she really means is “contract your pelvic floor muscles.” Is there a difference? According … Continued

Some Sanskrit words have successfully made it into our pop culture. One of the terms that seem to be thrown around a lot is mula bandha. You’ll hear a teacher instruct you to “engage your mula bandha” in various poses, while what she really means is “contract your pelvic floor muscles.” Is there a difference? According … Continued

What is Mula Bandha? Jennilee talks about how why and how to practice and teach it in yoga.

Bandhas are energy locks that promote the flow of prana. Discover the 4 main bandhas in yoga, their benefits, and how to properly activate them.

The Throat Lock (Jalandhara Bandha) is one of three internal seals that control how energy flows through the body in yoga. It's used in breath work.

Pelvic floor muscles (yoga). Pubococcygeus is the one engaged in mula bandha.

In Sanskrit Maha means Great and Mudra means Symbol or Gesture. Maha mudra is an advanced yogic practice that involves practicing three major bandhas together: Mula Bandha, Uddiyana Bandha and Jalandhara Bandha. Though this practice is done seated on the floor with the pose Janu Sirsasana, it is technically not considered a posture or asana even if this practice is called the Maha Mudra asana. Here the spine gets it’s extensions in all directions: lateral, forward, upward, twists, backwards…