Yoga for Body, Mind & Soul
Kamalamma
Kamalamma
Yoga for Body, Mind & Soul
October 26, 2025 ·  2 min read

Magic Palms

Palming & Sideways Viewing

Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Rub your hands together vigorously until they become warm👏🔥. Now place your palms on your eyelids: feel the warmth and sense the energy flowing from your hands to your eyes. Feel how your eye muscles gradually relax, and how your eyes themselves are bathed in warm, soft darkness. Focus on this pleasant sensation and enjoy it until all the warmth from your hands has transferred to your eyes. Lower your hands, keep your eyes closed and relax. Then slowly repeat this process 3–5 times. 

This is a wonderful, energizing practice! Applying your palms relaxes and invigorates the eye muscles, stimulating the circulation of the aqueous humor that flows between the cornea and the lens of the eye, helping the correction the defective vision. It is best done at sunrise or sunset, sitting facing the rising and setting sun🌅🌇. It's also good to absorb the soft sunlight and warmth through closed eyelids.

Aqueous humor is the liquid that responsible for maintaining eye pressure and nourishing the lens and cornea.

Sideways Viewing 👀

Sit comfortably with your arms extended out to the sides at eye level. You should still be able to see both thumbs in your peripheral vision. If you can't see your thumbs clearly, move your hands slightly forward until they come into view.

Start in a neutral position – simply look straight ahead. Inhale and...

Exhale, slowly shifting your gaze to your left thumb.

Then Inhale again and look up into the space between your eyebrows (bhrumadya 👁‍🗨), as if directing your gaze upwards and towards your forehead from within.

Exhale and slowly shift your gaze back to your left thumb.

Try not to move your head, only move your eyes; Keep your back and head straight. Repeat 8-10 times.

This exercise relaxes the muscle tension caused by constant reading or looking at a screen up close. With regular practice, it can prevent and/or correct strabismus.