During my wonderful vinyasakrama yoga training with Srivatsa Ramaswami,
I was trained how to hold Mulla ,Udiyana and Jalandhara bandhas (bind or lock) especially in
TATAKAMUDRA as illustrated by my drawing below:
(I imagine his Guru Sri Krishnamacharya demonstrating to us)
Tataka means Pond in Sanskrit and Mudra means a seal.
Tatakamudra is a Mudra lock where all three Bandas are so well engaged that a practitioner’s abdomen creates a small crater like cavity that forms a pond.
