There was a moment — some years ago — where I knew I was really getting into my Yoga practice, and it was when I first started to practice mantras. I first experienced the classical practice of mantras when I attended Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, CA for the first time in 2014.

Mantras are ancient formulas of divine sounds recorded by the ancient sages of India and held in trust and in secret in both India and Tibet for thousands of years.

They are a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.

Some of the most powerful mantras I’ve ever worked with for healing and yoga, are the mantras associated with the Hindu God Rama.

They are powerful healing mantras which open the Manipura, or solar plexus chakra. The solar plexus is the seat of our inner power, self-confidence, and motivation. Balancing the masculine and feminine currents in the body, Rama mantras connect us to God consciousness and open us to divine truths and blessings.

If you’re looking to enhance your yoga, or meditation practice with the sound, energy and vibrations of healing mantras, powerful Rama mantras for healing and yoga are a simple place to start — or, refresh — your journey.

They are mantras to balance the bodies energy channels, and connect with the divine — to help with anxiety, nervousness, shyness, depression (and even a cure for sweaty hands).

Mantras: Tools of the Mind

Mantras are considered “tools of the mind.” They help us in our mediation practice by calming our thoughts, and then allowing us to focus our mind on something positive, to connect with something greater — which the words are only pointing to beyond.

• Mantras can help you feel more calm or energized.
• Mantras can help you cope with illness and can sometimes affect physical healing.
• Mantras can help you deal with difficult or unpleasant circumstances.
• Mantras can help you bring your wishes to fruition and create reality from your dreams.

Mantra practice has the ability to completely solve many of the problems we face, and can tangibly soften others. Through continued mantra practice, you gain clarity about your life, your purpose, and yourself.

Chakras in the Feet: The Spiritual Power of Rama

In the East, it has always been considered a great blessing to touch the feet of a holy person. The reason for this is that there are very large, and extremely powerful chakras in the feet.

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Jesus Washing Feet

In the New Testament, we find Jesus washing the feet of the disciples. He tells them he must do this for them: “What I do now you do not understand, but you will later when I send the Holy Spirit.”

It was pretty cool of him to give his disciples a warning as he provided one of the last steps of spiritual initiation. He was opening the chakras in their feet. After Baptism with the Holy Spirit, their feet chakras will blaze and pour forth a powerful spiritual energy.

It’s smart to be aware you’re working with this powerful of an energy. With this feeling and intention, the mantra can really grab hold and become a beam of light to focus on.

Visualizing yourself being filled with this energy, being able to harness and direct it with the focus of your mind onto a singular purpose — is one of the main tenets of Yoga, and exactly what the mantra is designed to achieve.

It’s also to keep you humble. You’re working with this great spiritual energy on yourself, so you can become a beacon of this same energy to others.

Rama’s StoryExcerpt from Thomas Ashley-Farrand’s book: Healing mantras: Using sound affirmations for personal power, creativity, and healing

Rama was heir to the royal throne in the kingdom where he grew up. Through a series of incidents arising from court intrigue, he was forced to spend twelve years in exile in the forest. His exile was part of a divine design, and he was able to bless people while in exile.

One day, Rama and his brother Lakshamana were going to cross a river. The boatman, Guha, was nervous because he had heard about the great event in which Rama had tread upon a rock causing a woman to materialize (she was cursed by an angry sage many years before, and Rama’s touch broke the curse).

Guha was very concerned his boat would be turned into a woman, or something else, and it was his only way of supporting his family. As he considered several possibilities, he came up with his solution.

Rama and Lakshmana greeted Guha pleasantly, and asked to be taken across to the other side. Guha replied, “If you would ride with me, please allow me to wash your feet so that the dust will not turn my boat into someone else.”

Rama consented to have his feet washed by the boatman, who then became bathed in the tremendous spiritual energy springing from them endlessly, peacefully, and powerfully. With tears of devotion streaming down his cheeks, Guha applied water and gentle soap to the glowing feet.

When he had finished, Rama and his brother entered the boat and Guha ferried them to the opposite shore. Rama then asked what the charges were. Guha replied, “By your grace I have taken you across a river. You kindly take me across the ocean of this samsara.”

Samsara is the ocean of rebirth. Guha wanted to be liberated from the necessity of being reborn again and again until he achieved liberation from the continuing cycle of rebirth.

Rama Mantra

Rama: Ra-Ma

This application involves dividing Rama into the syllables Ra and Ma.

Ra is associated with the solar current that runs down the right side of our bodies. Ma is associated with the lunar current that runs down the left side of our bodies.

Om Ram Ramaya Namaha Mantra

Om Ram Ramaya Namaha — “Om and salutations to that perfection in the physical realm which was Rama, whose attributes exist in me also. Kindly manifest.”

This simple mantra begins to clear the two currents with a slight emphasis on the right or solar side.

• This mantra begins to clear the two currents of masculine and feminine energy within ourselves, allowing them to come into harmony and balance
• This mantra opens the solar plexus or Manipura chakra, which is the seat of our inner power, self-confidence, and motivation.
• This mantra connects us to God consciousness and opens us to divine truths and blessings.

Long and Powerful Rama Healing Mantra

Om Apa-damapa Hataram Dataram Sarva Sampadam Loka Bhi Ramam Sri Ramam Bhuyo Bhuyo Namam-yaham

“Om. O most compassionate Rama. Please send your healing energy right here to the Earth, to the Earth [twice for emphasis]. Salutations.”

This long form Rama mantra is supposed to be one of the most powerful mantras for healing.

This mantra is very good for treating mental health conditions such as nervousness, anxiety, shyness, depression (and can even be a cure for sweaty palms).

Although the mantra is long, once you are comfortable reciting the mantra, 108 repetitions can be accomplished in thirty minutes (20mins if you’re really comfotable).

A Nervous ConditionExcerpt from Thomas Ashley-Farrand’s book: Healing mantras: Using sound affirmations for personal power, creativity, and healing

A young man had a most unusual problem. From the age of ten, he would sweat profusely from his hands. He could not shake hands with anyone without being terribly embarrassed by clammy palms. He became very shy and withdrawn.

One day, he saw an article describing how a Swiss medical clinic had devised a treatment for just such a problem. The procedure involved going into the nerves along the spine that control the sweating of the hands, and tying them off so that the automatic sweating simply disappeared.

It worked, for about a month. Now he experienced a new problem. While his hands were just fine, he started sweating profusely from his abdomen.

He said that after hearing about the long Rama healing mantra, be became inspired to give it a try. Since he was not temperamentally suited to sitting formally for meditation, he just said the mantra as often as he could all day long. After just three weeks, his sweating problem began to subside. He continued the mantra for two more weeks and the problem went away completely.

He still says the mantra to this day, because he likes the way it makes him feel.

This Author Suffered from the Same Sweaty Palms Condition

My experience was very much the same as above.

I remember very well growing up in my teenage years, and one of my worst fears was dating a girl and having to hold her hand. I wanted to more than anything, yet I was afraid of letting her and others find out about my sweaty hands condition.

I had the surgery performed by Dr. Reisfeld in Beverly Hills, California at the Center for Hyperhydrosis. Hyperhydrosis is the medical term for the excessive sweating of the hands, feet, and armpits.

I had the surgery years ago, and while my hands stay very dry most of the time, I do get sweating in them and other areas of my body at times when I’m feeling nervous, or anxious.

At times when I realize this is going on, I’ll take a cool shower, and then chant a Rama mantra throughout the day to bring my nervousness, anxiety, and sweating back under control.

By Chanting the Name Ram

“By chanting the name Ram

The impossible becomes possible

What can’t be done can be done

What’s already been done, can be undone

By chanting the name Ram”

— Govind Das

When I first learned the Rama mantra at Bhakti Fest, I took class with a teacher I really loved, Govind Das. He is a Bhakti Yogi, who taught a really awesome and strong Yoga flow, accompanied by musicians playing mantra songs — called Kirtan.

He taught a post festival workshop that year, and I attended.

I loved this quote he had about repeating the name Ram, which he got from the Indian saint Maharaji (who was the same Guru as Ram Dass).

I really like it, because it’s kind of a screwy one to memorize. It’s all of the done/undone which really makes me have to concentrate and focus.

“By chanting the name Ram, the impossible becomes possible. What can’t be done, can be done. What’s already been done, can be undone. By chanting the name Ram.”

Blank Gift

I included a blank image down here below. This is to symbolize what the mantra is pointing too, beyond the words. People may say there’s “nothing there.” Yoga and mantras tell us there is, and their aim is to ready and steady our energy to one day handle this excess of spiritual energy — if we discover it through our Sadhana (Yoga spiritual practices).

You can also use the blank image for any mantra of your choice!

Upload it into Canva, use the Hero font, and create your own mantra.

You can try another mantra in Sanskrit, or make up one in English.

Speak another language? French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, etc. Have some fun, and let me know about your experience in the comments below!

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Neil Spencer, is a yoga wizard, meditator, and martial artist, who grew up in Southern California. He has been practicing the arts for 10+ years (and well over 10,000 hours). He loves connecting the higher ideals, concepts, and practices of yoga, meditation, and the martial arts.

Sources:

Ashley-Farrand, Thomas. (2000). Healing mantras: Using sound affirmations for personal power, creativity, and healing. Gateway.

Wikimedia Foundation. (2023, March 7). Mantra. Wikipedia. Retrieved March 9, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra