Sujit Sukumaran brings health and wellness on your fingertips with Mudra Therapy

Hiba Khan - Writer 11:49 05/05/2019
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  • If you ever thought good health is something achievable with the vastly sedentary nature of modern life, then you’d be surprised to know according to Yoga and Ayurveda, the key to a healthy body is, quite literally, in your hands.

    Mudra, a Sanskrit word for ‘Seal’, is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism and is often dubbed as yoga for hands, which is meant to lock and guide the energy flow of the body by curling, stretching and crossing the fingers in a certain way.

    The practice of Yoga and Mudra are similar and the hand positions are considered to amplify the energies around the practitioners, allowing them to enter a deeper meditative state.

    Basic Mudras

    UAE-based Indian HR professional Sujit Sukumaran has been a mudra coach for nearly a decade and possesses a strong passion for spiritual and alternative medicine, given his own experience of being a Cerebral Palsy survivor.

    The 34-year-old is a strong proponent of the benefits of this simple exercise and has conducted various workshops at House of Om to promote it.

    “The origin of Mudras can be found within the treatises of yoga, most specifically Patanjalis Yoga Sutras (a collection of 196 Indian aphorisms on the theory and practice of yoga),” Sukumaran said.

    “While Yoga in its more popular form of Asana deals with postural exercises, mudras on the other hand deal with the five fingers on each hand and the attribution of each of the five fingers to an element across the five elements, which are: Fire. Water, Ether (Space), Earth and Water.”

    “The science behind it is that at the tips of our fingers there are thousands of nerve endings. Additionally, there is a bio-charge we have within our body which forms part of an internal body circuit. The scientific assertion of Mudra in therapy is that when the nerve endings are connected and held in certain combinations, over a prescribed period, it results in desired effects.”

    According to Ayurveda, illnesses are caused as a result of an imbalance of these elements in our body. Through various mudras, the elements can be brought back in to balance and harmony.

    Sukumuran has championed the benefits of this therapy for years, but refuses to endorse a super-inferior paradox when it comes to comparing its effectiveness to other treatment methods.

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    While he has found mudras to be very effective in maintaining ones overall health, he insists it will not give you an overnight cure and should be paired with traditional treatments to stabilise an existing ailment.

    “The main issue is people think it’s a magic pill or an antidote to all pre-existing anomalies. While mudras work, you must first stabilise the chronic ailment or imbalance before attempting therapy as a base, without which a superimposition will only complicate matters or have simply no results. Secondly, people expect overnight miracles,” he said.

    “(Through my workshops) I hope to achieve greater awareness across three groups in specific. Teachers, Children and Corporates. Teachers because those who are in the field need greater awareness on therapeutics rather than making training courses a certificate granting exercise. Children and students, because there is a need for self, assured young people given the stresses they endure. Corporates, because in the rat-race, we are losing health, wealth and attention spans.”

    Sujit Sukumaran currently manages a WhatsApp group where aspiring Yoga teacher and Mudra practitioners can communicate with on another regarding upcoming meetups and courses. Contact Sujit on [email protected] and mobile on 050-5669494.

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