The Anjali Mudra is used for prayer or for meditation. Both the hands are held together at the centre of the chest at heart level. This mudra activates heart chakra, uplifts the consciousness and connects the personality to God or to whomsoever we are praying like a Guru or Enlightened personality.

This mudra requires to join the tips of thumb, index and middle fingers and the ring finger and little finger are folded in, touching the palm. This mudra balances the upper and lower chakras. This mudra has a more grounding effect.

This mudra activates the lower chakras more as compared to the upper chakras. This mudra also awakens the kundalini more as compared to the Divine light. Practitioners who are materialistic and objective and cannot leave their body during meditation, should minimise using this mudra. Use the index and thumb mudra instead.

Connect the index finger and thumb at the tips and have other fingers slightly stretched. The right hand facing front and pointing upward at the shoulder level. The left hand facing front pointing downward at hip the level. This mudra is used for spiritual blessings by more advanced teacher for more number of people.

The thumb is connected with index finger and other fingers are folded to touch the palm. This has a more grounding effect and the energy connected to respiratory functions is stimulated more. The hands are placed on top of the knees or lap during meditation.

Chin Mudra: Index finger thumb connection with palms facing upwards on the knees: This mudra is used during meditation. This is very useful to abstract your senses to higher level.

Index finger and thumb are connected together in such a way that the index finger touches the base of the thumb and the three fingers are stretched outward and the hands placed on the knees palms facing downward.

The hands left and right have different effects in the hand mudras. The left-hand generates more of the instinctive internal energy with effects coming from the space. The right hand initiates the energies from lower chakras and kundalini.
The placement of hands and fingers play a significant role. A meditator should know the effects of placement of hands and fingers and should understand what happens when you are following certain yogic or meditation processes.

The fingers have a relationship with the five natural elements and stimulate these aspects in the personality and higher consciousness:
Thumb – fire
Index finger – air
Middle finger – ether
Ring finger – earth
Little finger – water

The Root Lock is done by inhaling deeply, holding your breath longer and then exerting muscular contraction and compression of the perineum and anus muscles. Afterwards the lock is released. This technique helps to activate the seat of the kundalini. The Kundalini energy is activated and pumped upwards. It is also utilised to compress the pranic and kundalini energy not to go downward during the compression period. This energy moves upward with greater force and intensity.