Yoga Practice

Asian spiritual practices, from yoga and tai chi to qigong and mindfulness meditations, permeate our culture. But these practices are often casually used in the West, and sometimes little understood. As informative as it is inviting, A Lamp unto Yourself introduces “spiritual explorers” of all experience levels to embodied Eastern spiritual practices.

For thousands of years the science of meditation has been studied and practiced by aspirants seeking to make their lives more serene, creative, and fulfilling. In this practical guide to the inner life, Swami Rama teaches us how to slip away from the mental turbulence of our ordinary thought processes into an infinite reservoir of consciousness.

This wonderfully fresh and revelatory book invites you to create a personal yoga practice that seamlessly melds health and well-being with spiritual insight, Earth stewardship, and cultural transformation. Wilderness guide and yoga instructor Rebecca Wildbear came to yoga after a life-threatening encounter with cancer in her twenties. Over years of teaching and healing, she devised the unique and user-friendly practice she presents in Wild Yoga. In this book, she guides you in connecting to the natural world and living from your soul while also addressing environmental activism.

Yoga Beyond Belief offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection of valuable insights gleaned from a lifetime of exploration, practice, study, and teaching by one of America’s pioneering and leading teachers of yoga, the book assists listeners in making sense of the many discordant claims and teaching techniques that currently exist in the yoga world.

This book on Tantra introduces the main factors of the Inner Tantric Yoga, including Shakti as the power of the Goddess, Shiva as the Supreme Deity of awareness, the Devatas or Gods and Goddesses as the universal cosmic powers, and the higher realities of Atman and Brahman, the Supreme Self and the Absolute. It includes a deeper examination of what Yoga and Tantric Yoga is, and how it works on all aspects of our being.

The author after many years of mystifying yoga practices understood in depth many of the mechanisms of the three bodies’ configuration matrix, and the means to end mental enslavement. This book will help you free yourself of the web that entangles and holds you to conditioning. In this book, he demonstrates the efficacy of these techniques by using aura machines and Kirlian photography. You will be able to see for the first time, how energy moves through the subtle body and chakras during each of the yoga poses (asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama), and energy seals (mudras). You will...

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is generally regarded as the most authoritative yoga book. This consists of a set of 196 Indian sutras("threads") composed 1,700 years ago. Such threads or aphorisms have been collected by the Indian sage Patañjali and offer advice for a positive and purposeful existence.

Yoga is incredibly for increasing your range of motion, building strength in the entire body and decreasing common aches and pains, but without proper alignment and direction we may find that we are actually aggravating our pain rather than healing it. This book is designed to teach you a routine that you can follow throughout your life to maintain your body and rid it of toxins and extra weight. This book offers everything you need to start enjoying yoga’s calming and strengthening effects on your life.

The power of the breath has been recognized for millennia as an integral part of health and well-being. In Awakening the Sacred Body, teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche makes accessible the ancient art of Tibetan breath and movement practices. In clear, easy-to-understand language, he outlines the theory and processes of two powerful meditations - the Nine Breathings of Purification and the Tsa Lung movements - that can help you change your relationship to yourself, to others, and to the world.

Lead Instructor of Yoga and Meditation for Peloton Ross Rayburn offers a new and accessible take on mindfulness and the art of meditation through the practice of introversion, which is a method of self-exploration for finding authenticity, joy, and calm in our hectic, extroverted world.​ Building off his popular Peloton meditation and yoga classes and his years of teaching and spiritual study, Ross Rayburn offers a new way to look at meditation.

Do you have a fast and hectic lifestyle? Do you always feel tired and stressed? Are you always in an alert and tense mode? Have you stopped enjoying the simple pleasures of life? Do you feel under pressure continuously through out the whole day? Do you crave for a more relaxed and easy life? Do you suffer from blood pressure or diabetes or any other lifestyle diseases? If your answer for any of the above questions is ‘YES’, then you need to read this book! Most of the 8 billion people of this planet are aimlessly just running around and working like robots and machines. They are not ...

The Luminous Self shares teachings and practices that can help us connect with our true Self and reclaim our inherent power and wisdom—essential for living with purpose and grace in our turbulent world. In this book, Tracee Stanley shares teachings and practices in each chapter—including meditation, yoga nidra, breath work, dreaming rituals, community care practices, journaling, and more—that can help us remember and honor our deepest Self. The book is a journey of inner exploration for anyone who desires to know themselves more deeply

Imagine someone breathing deeply, calm confidence evident in their eyes, strength in their step, and with nimbleness that befits a true athlete. This someone can be you when you develop the yoga habit in your life. And you don't have to be heroically athletic or dedicate many hours of your time. Simply come along with me on this journey of discovery. Discovery of your own inner voice and inner quiet, your own deepest breath, and your own connection to this ancient way of tuning the body, mind, and spirit.

This wonderful, purple book is for you A journey through the chakras is a journey to yourself. All that you are, can be found in these places. You will find doors through which you can expand your life, your experience, and yourself. Here we unveil the Secrets - We discover new and surprising perspectives on these ancient centres; perspectives that you will not have heard about before. This book is for advanced yoga practitioners and for everyone who wants to dive deep. The author of this book studied Kundalini Yoga with masters from an authentic Indian lineage, and has devoted many years ...

Bring laughter into your life at any time of day - no special equipment needed, no new wardrobe, no expensive classes, not even a sense of humor! Laughter yoga is all about voluntary laughter - how you can learn to laugh even in the absence of humorous stimuli, and reap the extraordinary, scientifically proven benefits, which include stress reduction, pain relief, weight loss, heightened immunity, and, especially, enhanced mood: If you act happy, you'll become happy - your body can't tell the difference!

YOGA IS A WAY OF LIFE — A PATH TO SELF-IMPROVEMENT AND HOLISTIC WELL-BEING More than just poses – embrace yoga as a lifestyle This book goes beyond physical postures. You'll explore yoga as a complete way of living—covering not only asanas (poses) but also breathing techniques, mindful habits, and a philosophy of compassion, simplicity, and inner peace. Support natural and sustainable weight loss This book introduces how regular yoga practice, along with mindful eating and conscious living, can lead to lasting weight balance—not through crash diets, but by healing your relationship ...

Spiritual disciplines often seem remote from the realities of our daily lives. Yet there is a Mahayana Scripture which presents a model of enlightened practice in the midst of urban living, the Vimalakirti Sutra. This teaches a non-dualistic wisdom and reconciliation of dichotomies. It challenges ordinariness and reveals systematic and effective ways of tapping higher potentials while upholding one's usual responsibilities and enriching long-term relationships.

Kundalini awakenings can have profound physical, emotional, and mental effects, making it difficult to cope with everyday life, yet these powerful awakenings can also allow you to release past trauma, see past the illusions of the false self, and awaken your spiritual heart, enabling you to recognize the divine self. In this step-by-step guide to the three-phase process of Kundalini awakening, Mary Shutan delivers practical information on how to deal with such a spiritual emergence in our modern world.

Thank you for choosing this book and for your willingness to explore yoga more deeply. The Path of Light is the culmination of a lifetime of study, practice, and exploration by David Scott. His journey has taken him to the very roots of yoga, tracing its evolution from ancient traditions to its place in the modern world. This book has served as the foundation for both 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Alliance teacher training programs, supporting countless students on their path to understanding and sharing this transformative practice. If you are already a teacher, leading a training program, or...

With this handy little guide as your starting point, you will become an expert in the basics of Shakti and the Shakta tradition. Highly focused on the practical and the theoretical aspects of the Shakti, this book will teach you how to harness the power of Shakti to change your life for the better.