In Vidhya Subramaniam’s Cupertino garage there is lightening-fast movement, the booming sounds of feet shuffling over the wood floor and quick and deliberate hand gestures. This is the world of Mudras ...

Keep your hand straight my child,” coddles the teacher. Little hands contort into a 2,000-year-old mudra. Fingertips touch, neurons fire, and that little brain processes neuroplasticity at a magnitude ...

One day in late December, Gopalan Venu, more popular as G Venu sat holding his knees, his back ramrod straight, on the plush sofa of a green room, where shortly, his play, Sakuntalam, was to be ...

Ashwathi Menon, co-captain of UMBC's Indian fusion dance team, helps demo some of the technology in the lab. Here, she demonstrates the Katakamukha mudra as a robotic hand mimics her gesture. Parthan ...

There may be no conversation, but their expressions say it all as the audience reacts to danseuse Methil Devika’s new choreography. With fingers that move at lighting speed, the audiences speak to her ...

Stalwarts of Indian classical dance come together to showcase their performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts’ (NCPA) Mudra Dance Festival which begins in Mumbai from today. This year ...

If you type "yoga" into your search engine and look for images, you're likely to come across someone standing in Natarajasana (Dancer Pose)-lifted heart, arched back, reaching one hand back to hold a ...

An element is brought into harmony, and the illness resulting from that imbalance is healed when the thumb and corresponding finger come into contact. Gyan Mudra can be a powerful tool for enhancing ...

Hand mudras have been in use for centuries by Hindus Buddhists in Yoga, Ayurveda and dance rituals. They are said to restore physical and mental health. Mudras help to link the brain to the body, ...