Yoga for Bipolar Disorder

I’ve made the decision not to withhold information for profit.

That seems to be the health paradigm we’re working in these days — one person is sick and needs access to information or care. Another party has this information or service but withholds it unless a transaction is made.

Our lack of a national health plan speaks volumes of this, but lately yoga teachers have caught on, too, and I have certainly been guilty of charging prices just within the top limits of “reasonable” just because I know people are desperate enough to pay.

This isn’t the yogic path. In the old days, yogis lived on alms or had wealthy patrons who kept them in clothes and food so they could practice and teach the public.

I think many more yoga teachers would teach by donation if there wasn’t the fear that their own needs wouldn’t be taken care of.

So I’m breathing through some fear to state that I’m going to share all that I know about yoga and bipolar disorder here on this blog (in the big picture, that’s not much, anyway), free to the public.

(If I do ever offer a product, it will simply be a synthesis or reorganization of the information you find here, or in the case of video, a longer work of higher visual quality.)

To pull this off, I need your help. So if you find this resource useful, please make a donation if you can. Donations can also keep the site free of Google ads — I’d rather not have pharmaceuticals or crappy ebooks advertised here.

The PayPal donation button is in the sidebar. Thank you!

So from time to time I practice mudras (hand gestures) to stimulate mood or get more grounded. This is more on the far-out esoteric end of yoga, and no doubt some will scoff. That’s fine.

If you are even slightly sensitive to subtle shifts of energy, you will notice a difference to a small or great degree while practicing mudras.

I had forgotten some of the names of what it was I had been practicing (intended to write about this ages ago), but recently stumbled upon an article with a great many mudras accompanied by photos.

The mudras I recommend for bipolar depression are abhaya mudra (my favorite), gyan and purn gyan mudras, prithvi mudra, and pran mudra.

For more groundedness during manic, hypomanic or mixed states, practice prithvi mudra, kalesvara mudra, or gyan mudra. (Actually, if you’re manic, go to the hospital first.)

There are many, many mudras, each providing a subtle shift in your energy body. Try them out for yourself.

Now that this project is rolling again, look forward to some mudra how-to videos.

At the moment, the “blogroll” in the right column is pathetic — it’s the list that comes with the WordPress installation.

The truth is, I don’t really read bipolar blogs, though no doubt there must be some good ones out there considering the creativity we are capable of.

What bipolar blogs do you recommend I read? I’ll use your recommendations to determine the best bipolar blogs for my blogroll.

Please respond in the comments.