Hasta Sāmudrika
Mystical Secrets in Your Hands
A Mystical & Practical Teachings on Reading the Hands
Hasta Samudrika: Vedic Hand Analysis
May 14, 21 & 28, 1pm-3pm Pacific Time
Online & Recorded
Your hands hold mystical and karmic truths. Each unique hand, palm and set of finger prints carries profound meaning that reveals the promise of your potential and purpose in this birth.
Within your hands are the sun, moon, planets and stars. Hasta Samudrika is the sacred vedic system of seeing these secrets in your hands, which are a yantra – a sacred device. In addition to being a resource of meaning and prediction, the hands can be used as a device to commune with the sacred through mudra and ritual that harmonize us to the cosmos.
While the whole body is a field of meaningful structures, shapes and symbols, the hands hold the most riches of revelation.
Sāmudrika Śāstra is a means of relating to and seeing structures, shapes and markings on the body in a meaningful way that reveals good or bad fortune. The entire body can be “read” – from your tongue to your arms to your eyes. But amongst all the pattern holders, your hands hold the most riches of revelation.
Reading the hands is used in Jyotiṣa, Āyurveda and Yoga to guide us in how to orient to our own good luck, by attuning us to the karmic characteristics that can bring boons in this life.
In her signature teaching style that uses mystical storytelling as the basis, Kaya will inspire & ignite your love of the hands as a tool of sacred divination & devotion.
Hasta (हस्त) - “the hand” which is read for symbolism in jyotiṣa, seen as the seat of the nādīs in yoga, and is commonly used unit of measurement in the construction of temples of worship in Vedic architecture.
Learn to look at your own hands and the hands of others to glean deeper understanding of each person’s unique potential, purpose and soul promise in this world.
This course is perfect for yogic seekers who wish to deepen their appreciation of vedic knowledge systems or students of āyurveda or jyotiṣa bring the skill of hasta into their work.
Kaya threads storytelling, oral transmission and direct practical application in this program designed in collaboration with her husband, Jyotiṣi and Hand Analyst, Michael Manzella.
Here you’ll find study as sādhana – spiritual practice – that delights you on your path of awakening.

Sāmudrika (सामुद्रिक)—the art of interpreting the marks on the body; palmistry; fortune-telling; divination of the body or hands
Inside This Program
May 14, 21 & 28, 1pm-3pm Pacific Time
Online & Recorded

9 Hours Continuing Ed
1 Year Access
Format
- Three 90 Minute Lectures
- Three 30 minute Q&A Sessions with Kaya
- Visual Slides To Support the Teachings
- A Complimentary Supreme Release Yoga practice with Kaya
- Access to our online sangha for connection & reflection
Content
- Storytelling from Sanskrit Pūrāṇa, Hymns and Itihasa that point to the power of Samudrika
- Meaning of Each Fingers
- Key Lines of the Hand – Profession, Health & Love
- The planets of Jyotish in the Hands
- The Right & Left Hand
- Examples of hands from popular culture
- Examples of mudras, gestures and the meanings they hold.
- Hand dominance & meaning
- Esoteric practices that invoke the mystical power of the hands
Join Hasta: Mystical Secrets in Your Hands
Early Bird Price Until April 9
$295.00
Kind words from students
Learning to read the hands is a wonderland of inquiry & divine delight that can truly imbue your life & practice with the blessing of seeing the unseeable. You can learn to wield the wisdom in the hands for good, attuning to deeper patterns of reality that are seeable only to those who seek such knowledge.
Hasta: Mystical Secrets in the Hands is an authentic journey of teachings, stories and practice of the awe inspiring Vedic Sampradāya that has been protected for generations by its stewards, and is shared with you in trust that you will use it well.
Kaya and Michael have created this program out of their own direct experience with this system, taught with their unique approach to stewardship and sharing that it may be in the highest service to you and those you serve.
About Kaya
Kaya Mindlin has been teaching yogic seekers for 24 years with a background of thousands of hours in the full spectrum of the Vedic Tradition – including Yoga Therapy, Sanskrit Scripture, Āyurveda, Jyotiṣa, Storytelling, Devotional Practices.
From her Supreme Release Yoga to her Nectar of Time program to her Yoga Philosophy study programs, teachings with Kaya are designed for householder seekers and imbued with a balance of mystical and practical and held in a container of heartfelt storytelling and song.
She studied Hasta Samudrika, Jyotiṣa and Vāstu Śāstra with Hart DeFouw from 2005-2011, in group and private settings alongside her husband Michael Manzella.
Master Vedic Astrologer Michael Manzella has been advising clients internationally for 16 years. He utilizes the full spectrum of jyotish his consultations – including divination of the hands. He has taught and tutored individuals and small groups in the system of jyotish and considers its study a means to understanding life itself.
Michael studied in group programs and in private mentorship directly with Hart deFouw from 2005-2012 with some ongoing private study again in the 2020s in Hart’s semi-retirement. Michael’s gurus Pujya Swami Dayānanda and Sri Krishan Mantriji gave him blessing & encouragement in his work as a jyotiṣi . His skill, warmth, humor and depth give his clients ongoing insight and decision in all aspects of life. Many have worked with him for over a decade.
His diverse clientele range from actors & acupuncturists, healing practitioners and astrologers, farmers and teachers, Chefs and CEOs. They return through all the trials, questions, and pathways of their lives as they navigate life in pursuit of success, happiness and ease.