NAMAH hosted a deeply experiential three-day online workshop from 10-12 November 2025, centred on invoking the Divine Mother’s Four Aspects of Shakti through Mudra Sadhana. Led by Integral Yoga practitioner Shweta C. Rajurkar who was recently graced with a vision from the Mother to explore ancient Yogic Mudras as gateways to the Four Mahashaktis, the workshop wove Mudra practice with subtle inner bodywork to help seekers transcend the limitations of the lower nature and become finer instruments of Self-Perfection. Presented as simple yet powerful psychic tools, the Mudras were offered as acts of consecration, releasing old patterns and opening the being to Divine Mother’s Four Mahashaktis.

Mudras for Invoking Divine Mother’s Four Aspects

Workshop explored a carefully curated set of Yogic Mudras for opening the being to the unique vibration, demand, and guidance of each of the four Mahashakti:

Maheshwari (Wisdom, Wideness, Vastness)

Maheshwari acts from the higher consciousness above the mind, embodying the Divine’s immensity, calm wisdom, and all-embracing vision.

• Gyan Mudra: Used to shift from “I am breathing” to “I am breathed” by the Mahapraṇa, cultivating dual awareness of the crown and the wideness above.
• Uttar Bodhi Mudra: Opens the chosen resting centre (chest, solar plexus, or navel) to receive Maheshwari’s vast and illumining force.
• Udana Mudra: Activates Udana Vayu (throat to head), purifying organs in this region, balancing the brain hemispheres, and enhancing clarity and memory.
• Hakini Mudra: Harmonises five elements (Fire, Air, Ether/Space, Earth, Water) within the being, opening the mind to Maheshwari’s compassionate wisdom.
• Naga Mudra: Strengthens inner wisdom and discrimination, helping the practitioner sift the higher tendencies from the lower to accelerate progress.

Mahakali embodies fierce Divine love by destroying falsehood with force, speed, and luminous precision. Her blows are understood as a rapid grace toward purity.

• Uttar Bodhi Mudra: Revisited on 2^nd day to establish the calm, unwavering inner ground required to receive Mahakali’s intense transformative force.
• Mushtika (Shakti) Mudra: Balances Ida and Pingala, stabilising the nervous system to hold Mahakali’s swift energy.
• Prana Mudra: Enhances vitality (Prana Shakti), giving strength to confront and transform difficult or traumatic impressions under Mahakali’s golden radiance.
• Pushan (Poshan) Mudra: Invokes Mahakali’s nourishing aspect to renew the nervous system, increase receptivity, and break open the lid of ignorance.

Mahalakshmi (Harmony, Beauty, Grace)

Mahalakshmi brings sweetness, harmony, and beauty in mind, heart, action, life, and surroundings. She works primarily through the heart.

• Samana Mudra: Creates a connection for unity and harmony of five elements within the body, thereby calling Mahalakshmi to harmonise areas of difficulty.
• Namaskara Mudra: A prayer gesture that holds an inner space filled with the aspiration for purity and living harmony.
• Pankaja (Lotus) Mudra: Symbolises opening the heart’s prayer to Mahalakshmi. It supports the nervous system, aids circulation, and clears attachments.
• Indra Mudra: Purifies and regulates the Water element (Jala Devata). When harmonised, the body becomes a vessel for Mahalakshmi’s beauty and radiance.
• Prithvi Mudra: Grounds a practitioner in the Earth element, positioning firmly with the Sankalpa to remain vigilant, letting the money force return toward the Divine.
• Vyan Mudra: Activates Vyan Vayu, supporting the balance of three Doshas (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha) for complete bodily harmony.

Mahasaraswati (Perfection in Work)

Mahasaraswati is the power of perfection. She awakens the need for precision, order, and truth in every detail of mind, life, and physical nature.

• Merudanda Mudra: A four-stage spinal practice that subtly massages the Nadis, cultivating vigilance, precision, and the steady awareness needed for perfection.
• Shivalinga Mudra: Held at the navel centre of Will, it strengthens and stabilises the Will to consistently choose higher perfection over Tamas or lower tendencies.

Closing Mudra for Absolute Surrender of Entire Sadhana to Divine Mother

• Shunya Mudra: Connects the being to absolute surrender by offering the entire Sadhana to the Divine Mother, which is essential in Integral Yoga.

Core Guiding Principles Emphasised Throughout the Workshop

The facilitator emphasised shift from personal effort to surrender thereby allowing four Mahashakti’s to work through us and reiterated following themes all through:

• Complete Surrender and Offering: Reject self-doer ship and offer all patterns, obstacles, ambitions, and resistances to the Divine Mother. Approach acts of breathing, healing, and progress not through personal effort but through surrender, allowing the Mahashakti’s forces to act.
• Intuitive Guidance Over Mental Control: Rely on direct experience and inner intuition rather than intellectual analysis. Observe without judgment and let movements / placements happen spontaneously, and remain open to visions & insights arising from within.
• The Body as a Receptive Instrument: Treat the body, especially the spine and nervous system as a conscious temple capable of receiving higher forces. Let the Mudras awaken and strengthen the body as a subtle instrument, balance Nadis, and allow the higher force to lift and transform.
• Continuous Awareness and Vigilance: Maintain steady awareness of breath, sensations, and subtle shifts. This vigilance supports harmony, precision, and protection from adverse movements, particularly in the work of Mahasaraswati.

Transformational Impact of Mudra Sadhana on Daily Living

Mudra Sadhana practices guided the participants toward profound inner and physical transformation leading to realisation of following benefits in daily life:

• Spiritual Transformation: Conscious advancement on the path of Integral Yoga and Self-Perfection thereby transcending the limitations of lower nature.
• Consciousness and Elemental Balance: Deeper awareness of five elements (Fire, Air, Ether, Earth, Water) throughout the body, fostering inner harmony.
• Nervous System Health: Awakened nervous system thereby preparing it to hold greater energy and light and renewal of nerves making them supple & receptive.
• Enhanced Mental Faculties: Developed memory, clarity, and the analytical discernment needed for spiritual growth.
• Physical and Emotional Harmony: Balanced Doshas (Vata, Pitta, Kapha), harmonised Ida / Pingala Nadis and healing of difficult or traumatic memories.
• Cultivation of Inner Attitudes: Nurturing of inner qualities of vigilance & sincerity, calmness in the physical, and ardent aspiration laying the foundation for true perfection.

Guiding the group through embodied Mudra practices, the facilitator wove in Mantric passages from The Mother and Sri Aurobindo that illuminated the four Mahashaktis. The workshop was held as a sacred Yajna, as an offering of breath, Mudra, thoughts, emotion, and body into the fire of aspiration. Participants gained both clarity and direct experience of subtle dimensions of Yogic Mudras as potent psychic tools that help Integral Yoga practitioners transcend lower limitations through heightened consciousness, refined aspiration, and a deeper surrender to the Divine Mother and Her Four Aspects.

The workshop concluded with a collective gratitude to the Mother for gracing the facilitator with this transformative vision and guiding NAMAH in offering this beautifully curated space to Her children, nurturing their aspiration to become living instruments of the Divine Mother’s transformative Grace.

Feedback

“Namaste. Deep, deep gratitude for these sessions. Gratitude to Mother for Her Presence. Thank you, Shweta di, James, for channelling this for us all and Arun ji for notes and to all for holding this beautiful space.”

“Truly beautiful workshop. I am speechless about the experience.

Thank you so much.”