Power Mudra for everyday use!

 

Bruce with Power-Mudra

The best example of power-mudra can be seen at Hong Kong's beautiful waterfront where there is this famous stature of the famous Bruce Lee in combat stance.  Look at his fingers: how his index and little fingers point straight and other fingers curving down.  And look at the Apana Mudra below, for meditation where the two curved fingers touching the thumb:

The Apatha Mudra - a power mudra

A Mudra helps a meditator to generate chi, and the same helps a martial artist to generate chi to properly connect (or reconnect) his total body muscles to build a strong structure.

The objective of the internal martial art system, like tai-chi, is to train one's whole body system.  As Bruce Lee's stance shows, this kind of training can be applied to all martial art workout (Bruce had a low regard to tai-chi as a power system, yet he seemed to have trained in similar way).

The beauty of this kind of muscle work-out system is that it can be incorporated into our daily lives.  A shop-till-dead lady can make good use of mudra, turning her shopping trip to a chi-training trip - see below:

Mudra and shopping bags (Apatha Mudra is recommended)

If you commute by subway (or Tube or MTR), you can make good use of a hanger to "hold tight with Apatha Mudra" - with best results doing zhan zhuang at the same time!

Hold tight with Apatha Mutra