Yoga Paths - bhakti yoga, hatha yoga, kundalini yoga, tantra jnana kriya and mantra
Yoga Paths - bhakti, hatha, jnana, karma,
kriya, kundalini, mantra, raja and tantra.
 There
are many yoga paths - bhakti, hatha, jnana, karma, kriya, kundalini, mantra,
raja and tantra. No form is better than the other, there are just different
paths. With this overview, we hope that you may find the yoga path best
suited to bring your health and Enlightenment.
Bhakti
Children
Hatha
Jnana
Karma
Kriya
Kundalini
Mantra
Tantra
Women
 BHAKTI
YOGA is the yoga path of love and devotion to the Creator, Heavenly
Father, Lord Most High, the Divine, God, the Supreme Godhead - the path
of transcendent Love which sees the whole universe, both animate and inanimate,
as being pervaded by Divinity.
The cardinal principle of Bhakti Yoga
is to learn the various feelings and emotions in the human mind. Feelings
& emotions have to be controlled otherwise they themselves will take
control. Bhakti Yoga teaches not to hate or despise any other human being.
Devotional worship and the choice to conduct one's life should be honored.
Bhakti Yoga involves keeping the body scrupulously clean and eating sattvic
food. Bhakti is also expressed in cheerfulness. In Yoga it is said that
the cheerful mind can equip difficulties. The state of mind to aim Bhakti
is of equilibrium. Worship is the only first step on path of devotion.
Therefore to approach God by love is to prepare oneself for the greatest
possible spiritual fulfillment. Yoga of Bhakti is a matter of the Heart
and not of the Head.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada was born in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He met his spiritual
master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati was a religious scholar and the founder of sixty-four
Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes) in India. Srila Prabhupada became his
student and formally his disciple in 1933. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
requested Prabhupada to translate Vedic knowledge into English. In the
years that followed, Srila Prabhupada wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita.
In 1944, he started Back
to Godhead, an English magazine. Single handedly, Srila Prabhupada
edited, typed, and distributed the copies. In 1959, Srila Prabhupada began
work on his life's masterpiece: a multivolume, commented translation of
the eighteen-thousand-verse Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana). After
publishing three volumes of the Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada came to the
U.S. in 1965. Subsequently, His Divine Grace wrote more than 50 volumes
of authoritative commentated translations and summary studies of the philosophical
and religious classics of India.
When he first arrived by freighter in New York
City, Srila Prabhupada was almost penniless. After only a year he established
the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, in July of 1966.
Before he passed away on November 14, 1977, he had guided the Society
and seen it grow to a worldwide confederation of more than one hundred
asramas, schools, temples, institutes, and farm communities.
Srila Prabhupada's most significant contribution is his
writings. Highly respected by scholars for their authority, depth, and
clarity, they are used as textbooks in numerous college courses. His writings
have been translated into over fifty languages. His writings are a veritable
library of Vedic philosophy, religion, literature, and culture.
Krsna
Sri
Isopanisad
Bhagavad-Gita
As It Is
Light
of the
Bhagavata
The
Quest for
Enlightenment
The
Journey of
Self Discovery
 HATHA
YOGA literally means sun and moon. Hatha yoga strives to balance these
two elements which represent the masculine and feminine, strength and flexibility.
It is concerned with physical and mental purification and training. The
goal is to bring the physical body into a perfect state of health so the
soul has a fitting vehicle of expression (body) to work through. It embraces
many practices, including physical postures (asana) and breathing
exercises (pranayama) which also act upon the physical nervous system
and spiritual body (which is considered a corollary aspect of the physical
body) and brings the vital energies of the physical and spiritual bodies
under conscious control.
The ancient asana postures are skillful, conscious
movements of the body and breath that are based on biomechanical and physiological
principles. The original yogic masters studied human and animal movement.
They studied the subtleties of movement from infants through old age.
To understand these movements, one needs to focus on the sensations of
their body and breath. The actions of the asana poses are elicited through
specific images and guided by the breath, rather than imitate or approximate
the surface or outer form of the pose.
"Swami Satchidananda has been a spiritual
friend to countless thousands, catalyzing their transformations, and a
clear, consistent and peaceful voice for honoring the many paths to the
One." - Ram Dass
The Reverend Sri Swami Satchidananda is the founder
of the worldwide Integral Yoga Institutes. An esteemed Yoga master, and
spiritual leader, Sri Swamiji is regarded by many as an apostle of peace.
He is often affectionately referred to as the “Woodstock Guru,” because
he inaugurated the famed Woodstock Festival and went on to introduce an
entire generation of young people to the benefits of Yoga. Not limited
to any one organization, religion or country, Sri Swamiji receives invitations
from around the world to speak about pathways to peace. He serves on the
advisory boards of the International Yoga Teachers Association, European
Union of National Yoga Federations, the British Wheel of Yoga, and numerous
peace and interfaith organizations.
Born in India in 1914, Sri Swamiji had the opportunity
to be associated with some of the great sages of the 20th century, including
Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo. He received pre-monastic initiation
from Sri Swami Chidbhavanandaji of the Ramakrishna Mission. In 1949, he
was ordained as a monk in the Paramahansa Order of Sannyas by the renowned
spiritual master, Sri Swami Sivananda of the Divine Life Society, Himalayas.
Over the years, Sri Swamiji taught at the Yoga Vedanta Forest University
and directed activities at Divine Life Society branches in India, Sri
Lanka, and the Far East.
Integral Yoga, as taught by Sri Swamiji, combines
various yoga paths including Hatha Yoga, breathing practices and relaxation
techniques, selfless service, meditation, prayer, and a 5,000 year old
philosophy that helps one to find inner peace and joy. The practices and
principles of Integral Yoga are at the foundation of Dr. Dean Ornish’s
landmark work in reversing heart disease and Dr. Michael Lerner’s noted
Commonweal Cancer Help program. He is the author of many books, among
them: Integral Yoga Hatha, To Know Yourself, and Beyond Words. He is also
the subject of two biographies, Apostle of Peace and Portrait of a Modern
Sage.
In 1966, he was invited by filmmaker Conrad Rooks and artist Peter Max
to visit the United States. Because of the enthusiastic response to his
universal teachings, Sri Swamiji was asked to extend his stay. He was
the first person to receive a visa under the title, “Minister of Divine
Words,” and eventually became a United States citizen.
Sri Swamiji has sponsored numerous ecumenical symposiums, retreats and
worship services. During several private audiences, H.H. Pope Paul VI
praised these efforts in promoting interfaith activities. He has also
had an audience with H.H. Pope John Paul II and continues to travel around
the world promoting religious harmony and meeting with spiritual and governmental
leaders, and other dignitaries. Over the years he has met with, among
others: Mahatma Gandhi, H.H. the Dalai Lama, U Thant, Indira Gandhi, Mother
Teresa, and Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
A physical manifestation of Sri Swamiji’s interfaith work is the Light
Of Truth Universal Shrine (LOTUS). Dedicated in 1986, this unique ecumenical
shrine houses altars for all the major world religions. It lies at the
heart of Yogaville, Virginia, a spiritual center that functions under
Sri Swamiji’s guidance and is based on the principles of Yoga and ecumenism.
Open to all people, LOTUS addresses the need of the hour: the peace and
harmony that can come from greater love and compassion for all humanity.
Sri Swamiji has received many honors for his public service. Among these
awards are, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, the Anti-Defamation
League’s Humanitarian Award, and two honorary doctorates. The Juliet Hollister
Interfaith Award was presented to Sri Swamiji at the United Nations in
October 1996. In 1998, he was honorary chair for the gala during which
H.H. the Dalai Lama received the same award. Sri Swamiji has dedicated
his life to the cause of peace both individual and universal and to religious
harmony among all people.
The
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Satchidananda This valuable book
provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the
path of concentration and meditation. The classic Sutras
(thought-threads), at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on
ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for
dealing with situations in daily life. The Sutras are presented here in
the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and with translation,
transliteration, and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda.
Beyond
Words is a selection of stories and parables, taken from talks given
by Sri Swami Satchidananda. Readers can discover for themselves the peace
and joy that lie within us all. More than a hundred drawings by renowned
artist Peter Max add an extra delight. The following is from the first
chapter of Beyond Words. "Peace and joy is our goal. Whatever we do,
we are doing it for that. Not everyone believes in a God. But the real
God, the cosmic God who is being searched for by one and all, is that
peace and joy."
Integral
Yoga Hatha has been in print constantly since 1970. This large format
Hatha Yoga instruction guide is now recognized as a classic in its field.
Over 160 large photographs show Hatha expert Sri Swami Satchidananda
performing more than 80 postures, breathing practices, relaxation,
cleansing and concentration techniques. Instructions are easy to follow
and describe how the body and mind benefit from each pose. Practice
routines for beginning, intermediate and advanced students are suggested.
Complete
Illustrated
Beginner's
Manual
and
Basic video
The Hatha Yoga
Pradipika
by Svatmarama
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Pranayama
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for
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Asana practice can reduce stress and
be restorative as well as energizing. Today’s fast pace has some of us
driven by concerns that keep us from experiencing the present moment -
being in the here and now. Yoga practice can discipline us to stay present
with the goodness of any given moment. It has at times been called
meditation in action, going beyond mere physical exercise that can help
realign an individual with the flow of nature. Regular and consistent
practice of these postures will improve the immune, respiratory,
circulatory, digestive and nervous systems. It will bring you an ocean of
calm and peace.
With skillful practice, someone in pain can begin to understand how to
move out of pain by reducing the mechanical stresses. Once one realizes
what mechanical stresses are perpetuating their pain, and develop the
motor skills to move with normal bio- mechanical stresses, their bodies
are allowed to heal. This yogic practice can be safe for most people
regardless of their level of conditioning with skillful instruction. To be
able to resist disease, to bear strain, and to enjoy mental vitality, to
feel the body as a luxury, as a bird feels when shooting through the air,
and as a normal child does, is health.
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& PM yoga
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Intermediate
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Practice
 JNANA
YOGA is the yoga of the philosopher and thinker who wants to go beyond
the visible, material reality. The Jnana Yogi finds God through knowledge.
Jnana Yoga is summed up in the Upanishads by the following statement:
"In the method of reintegration through knowledge, the mind is ever
bound to the ultimate end of existence which is liberation This method
leads to all attainments and is ever auspicious."
Yoga of the intellect requires
enormous strength of will to discriminate and to reason. It is the Yoga of
analysis. In the first stage, one acquires knowledge of the Vedas,
Upanishads and the Bhagavad Geeta. In the second stage, one takes the help
of a Guru to guide her/him in doubts. In the third and final stage, one
practices deep Dhayana of the absolute Brahman. Through study and
analysis, our Jnana gets heightened. This Yoga is most suited to people
who like to reason, who like to study, who love knowledge and the growth
of intellect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May, 1895, in
Madanapalle, India. After moving to Madras in 1909, Krishnamurti was adopted
by Mrs. Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society. She was convinced
that he was to become a great spiritual teacher. Three years later she
took him to England to be educated in preparation for his future role.
An organization was set up to promote this role. In 1929, after many years
of questioning himself and the destiny imposed upon him, he disbanded
this organization, turning away all followers.
"Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot
approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth,
being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever,
cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or
to coerce people along any particular path."
From that time until his death in February 1986,
he traveled round the world speaking as a private person, teaching and
having discussions. Krishnamurti evolved his unique teaching from his
own being and living, for he had read no religious or philosophical literature.
His aim was to set people psychologically free so that they might be in
harmony with themselves, with nature and with others. He taught that mankind
has created the environment in which he lives and that nothing can ever
put a stop to the violence and suffering that has been going on for thousands
of years except a transformation in the human psyche. If only a dozen
people are transformed, it would change the world.
Krishnamurti maintained that there is no path to
this transformation, no method for achieving it, no gurus or other spiritual
authorities who can help. He pointed to the need for an ever-deepening
awareness of one's own mind in which the limitations of the mind could
drop away.
Education had been one of his chief concerns. If
a young person could learn to see his conditioning of race, nationality,
religion, dogma, tradition, opinion etc., which leads to conflict, then
he might become a fully intelligent human being for whom right action
would follow. During his life time he established several schools where
young people and adults could come together and explore this possibility
in daily living. He said that schools were places "where students
and teachers can flower inwardly." Because, "schools are meant
for that, not just merely to turn out human beings as mechanical, technological
instruments - but also to flower as human beings, without fear, without
confusion, with great integrity."
The Awakening
of Intelligence
Krishnamurti
Total Freedom
Reflections
on the Self
Think
on
These Things
The
First and
Last Freedom
Yoga Essence
Light on Yoga
Tree
Enlightenment
 KARMA
YOGA achieves union with God through right action and through service.
Karma Yoga can also be summed up in a statement by Sri Bhagavan Krishna
in the Bhagavad Gita: "Worshipping Him with proper actions,
a man attains realization". One key to Karma Yoga is the performance
of right action and service for its own sake, without consideration of
the results.
The word is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Kri'
which means "to do". Everything that we do, all actions is Karma.
And the word also seems the effects of action. Karma is work and Karma
Yoga is the Yoga of Selfless Work, without any motive expectations in
return. The effect of Karma or action on character is the greatest power
Man has to deal with in this aspect of Yoga. One can therefore call Karma
Yoga, the essentially practical Yoga. Karma Yoga recognises the nature
of work. The goal of all the Yogas is freedom and in Karma Yoga the goal
can be reached through selfless work. 'You have the right to work but
not for the fruits in return'. Bhagwad Gita.
Ram Dass was born in 1933 as Richard Alpert. He
was the son of a wealthy lawyer, who was the president of the New York,
New Haven, and Hartford Railroad and founder of Brandeis University. After
studying psychology and earning an M.A. from Wesleyan and a Ph.D. from
Stanford, he taught and conducted research at the Department of Social
Relations and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University from
1958 to 1963.
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), while a professor at
Harvard, explored the human consciousness and conducted intensive research
with LSD and other psychedelic elements, in collaboration with notables,
such as Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, and Allen Ginsberg. Because of the
controversial nature of this research, both he and Timothy Leary were
dismissed from Harvard in 1963.
 He
is the co-founder and board member of the Seva Foundation ("service,"
in Sanskrit), an international organization dedicated to relieving suffering
in the world. Seva supports programs designed to help wipe out curable
blindness in India and Nepal, restore the agricultural life of impoverished
villagers in Guatemala, assist in primary health care for American Indians,
and to bring attention to the issues of homelessness and environmental
degradation in the United States, among others.
Ram Dass continued this research with a private
foundation through 1967, when he traveled to India. There he met his spiritual
teacher, Neem Karoli Baba. Under his guru's guidance, he studied yoga
and meditation and received his Indian name, translated as "servant
of God." Since 1968, he has pursued a variety of spiritual practices,
including Hinduism, Kharma yoga and Sufism.
In 1974, he created the Hanuman Foundation, which
has developed many projects, including the "Prison-Ashram
Project," designed to help inmates grow spiritually during
incarceration, and the "Living Dying Project," which provides
support for the conscious dying. The foundation is also the organizing
vehicle for his lectures and workshops, which constantly keep him
traveling the world.
His first, "Be
Here Now" - published in 1971, has sold over one million copies
and has become a classic spiritual guide.
The Only
Dance There Is
How Can I Help
Spiritual Practices &
Perspectives
Compassion
in Action
Journey of
Awakening
Laws
of Karma
Karma
Yoga &
Bhakti
Yoga
 KRIYA
YOGA is the scientific art of perfect God-Truth Union. To
live and act totally consistent to action with the awareness of what is
signified by Yoga is called 'Kriya Yoga'. Kriya means action, and Yoga
means citta-vritti-nirodha : Citta (mind), Vritti (ideas), Nirodha (control).
The process is control of ideas in the mind to contemplation; through
discrimination to spiritual independence. Tapa (penance), Svadhyaya(self-study),
Isvarapranidhana (devotion) together form Kriya Yoga. Kriya Yoga is not
a matter of doing but of being aware of everything that one may be doing.
Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
on January 5, 1893, in Gorakhpur, India. In his youth he sought out India's
sages, hoping to find an illumined teacher to guide him in his spiritual
quest. At age 17, Yogananda met and became a disciple of Swami Sri Yukteswar
Giri. He spent the next ten years, receiving Sri Yukteswar's spiritual
discipline.
After Yogananda graduated from Calcutta University
in 1915, he took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami
Order, where he received the name Yogananda (signifying bliss through
divine union). In 1917, he founded a boys school, where modern educational
methods were combined with yoga training and spiritual instruction. Mahatma
Gandhi wrote: "This institution has deeply impressed my mind."
"Do not think that you can comprehend
the Infinite Lord by reason.....Man's highest faculty is not reason but
intuition: apprehension of knowledge derived immediately and spontaneously
from the soul, not from the fallible agency of the senses or of reason."
In 1920, Yogananda was invited to serve as India's delegate to an international
congress of religious leaders convening in Boston. That same year he founded
Self-Realization Fellowship to disseminate worldwide his teachings on
India's ancient science and philosophy of Yoga.
Over the next decade, he traveled and lectured
widely, speaking of the underlying unity of the world's great religions,
and taught universally applicable methods for attaining direct personal
experience of God. To serious students of his teachings he introduced the
techniques of Kriya Yoga.
In 1935, he toured Europe and India. During his
year-long sojourn in his native land, he spoke throughout the subcontinent
and enjoyed meetings with Mahatma Gandhi (who requested initiation in
Kriya Yoga). During this year, Sri Yukteswar, bestowed on him India's
highest spiritual title, Paramahansa - the title signifies one who
manifests the supreme state of unbroken communion with God.
On March 7, 1952, Paramahansa entered
mahasamadhi, a God-illumined master's conscious exit from the body at the
time of physical death.
His life story, Paramahansa
Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi, was published in 1946 and
expanded by him in subsequent editions. A perennial best seller, the book
has been in continuous publication and has been translated into 18
languages. A spiritual classic.
Autobiography
Journey to
Self Reaization
Man's
Eternal
Quest
Sanctuary
of the Soul
Spiritual
Science
 KUNDALINI
YOGA is the awakening of the "serpent
of fire" energy to freely travel up through the chakras of the
unblocked spinal column. The arousing of the Kundalini is usually
brought about through a coordination of posture, breath and mantra,
along with certain visualizations. Kundalini is an energy which may
lie dormant at the base of the spine. Self Realization is the awakening
of the Kundalini through the central channel, piercing the seven chakras
and emerging at the top of the head. Kundalini Yoga works with the
seed energy of the subtle body, called Kundalini or the Serpent Power.
It is said to reside in the root chakra and contain within itself
all the power of consciousness.
In the Yoga of knowledge, energy is thought to
follow awareness. Therefore the emphasis is on developing the power of
attention. In the Yoga of devotion (Bhakti Yoga), energy is thought to
follow love. Kundalini may not be recognized apart from the intense power
of devotion or attention. In neither of these other two systems of Yoga is
any special method for awakening the Kundalini required. It is usually to
supplement these two Yogas or in the absence of their full power that
methods to arouse the Kundalini may be used. In this regard Kundalini
practices can be an important part of these two paths as well.
It should be noted that Kundalini can be aroused
artificially by a willful or egoistic practice. It can also be stimulated
by drugs or extreme emotional reactions. If the nature is not purified,
the Kundalini may only serve to aggrandize the ego. It tends to magnify
our nature, so that if our nature is not yet attuned to the Divine Will,
it may magnify our weaknesses. Hence Kundalini practices do have their
possible side-effects and should be done with care.
The proper awakening of the Kundalini is through
Divine grace. This does not mean that any effort on our part is not useful
but that our effort must be to attune ourselves to the grace. Merely to
arouse Kundalini is not an end in itself. The goal is to move more deeply
into peace. When power is not part of peace it always becomes destructive.
The premature arousing of the
Kundalini can burn up the nervous system. It can limit or prevent our
spiritual growth for perhaps the rest of our lives. Kundalini can be used
up to the level of the third chakra or solar plexus to increase the powers
of the ego.
According the Vedas and Puranas even
the demons practice Yoga up to this level because it gives them more
power. The critical mind of the third chakra often considers itself to be
enlightened. It does have the power to see through and control other
personalities. It sees the limitations in others. However, it cannot see
the Divine presence in others, or its own limitations and usually becomes
caught in some process of manipulation. Most false gurus operate on this
level.
Swami Muktananda (1908-1982) began living as a
sadhu, a mendicant in search of spiritual fulfillment, at an unusually
early age. Though as a young man he gained renown for his yogic attainments,
Swami Muktananda often said that his spiritual journey didn't truly begin
until 1947, when he received shaktipat, spiritual initiation, from
the holy man Bhagawan Nityananda.
It was then that his spiritual energy, kundalini, was awakened
and he was drawn into profound states of meditation.
"Everything you seek in this world is within
you. Supreme joy blazes inside. But it is not enough merely to have an
intellectual understanding of this. You have to go deep inside. The heart
is the true house of God. It is the seat of happiness, the abode of unending
love. Go there."
In the 1970s, on his guru's behalf, he brought
the venerable tradition of his master's lineage to the West, giving the
previously little-known shaktipat initiation he himself had received
to untold thousands of spiritual seekers. Before his death, in 1982, Swami
wrote many books; sixteen are still in print. He also established more
than six hundred meditation centers and several ashrams
around the world. His work, through the auspices of the Siddha Yoga Dham
Associates Foundation, is carried on by his spiritual heir, Swami Chidvilasananda.
Story of Swami Muktananda
Kundalini
I have Become Alive
Nothing Exists that is not Siva
Play of Consciousness
Chakra/Kundalini
Workbook
Introduction
to
Kundalini
Yoga
Living
with
Kundalini
Kundalini Yoga
video
Serpent
of
Fire
Evolutionary
Energy
 MANTRA
YOGAfinds unity consciousness through the proper use of speech and
sound. It is the power of the word to create or destroy that this path
emphasizes. It utilizes the focus intent to make every word you speak
be in harmony with Spirit and your own soul.
The Transcendental Meditation ® (TM)
program and the worldwide Spiritual Regeneration Movement was founded
in 1957 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Maharishi is widely regarded as the
foremost scientist in the field of consciousness. He has completely restored
the thousands of years-old Vedic Literature for the total significance
of its theory and practice, and has organized it in the form of a complete
science of consciousness. His Vedic Science and Technology unfolds the
full potential of Natural Law in human consciousness as the basis of improving
all areas of life.
"If we look into the process
of gaining knowledge we find there are two sides to knowledge: the object
of knowledge, that which we seek to know, and the subject of knowledge,
the knower. What the present system of education provides is knowledge
of the object; what it misses is knowledge of the subject, knowledge of
the knower in the knower's infinite capacity. When the knower is ignorant
about the Self, the whole structure of knowledge is as if baseless.
"It is for education of today's
world to realize that complete education, or absolute education, is not
a process of knowing anything else. It is in fact returning from anything
else to knowing oneself."
The Transcendental Meditation ® program,
the subjective technology of Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology,
is the most widely practiced and extensively researched program of self-development
in the world. The TM program is the single most effective technique available
for gaining deep relaxation, eliminating stress, promoting health, increasing
creativity and intelligence, and attaining inner happiness and fulfillment.
This mantra yoga is practiced by 4 million people worldwide, is a simple,
natural, effortless technique. The effectiveness of the program has been
validated by over 500 scientific studies at more than 200 independent
research institutions in 30 countries. This technique requires no belief
or lifestyle change, is non-religious, is not time-consuming, and can
be learned by anyone regardless of age or level of education.
Healing
Mantras
Power
of Mantra
Transcendental
Meditation
Music for Meditation
Science
of Being
& Art of Living
TANTRA YOGA
is the sensual yoga. By embracing Tantra, we become more "complete"
by recognizing and stimulating our inherent sensual spirituality. We discover
parts of our sensuality that have been asleep or repressed. An energy
is released that is evolutionary and "upwardly motivated." We
can learn to use this energy for pleasure, for achieving our worldly goals,
and for aiding our spiritual evolution.
This Yoga is mostly in the form of dialog, between a cosmic couple -
between Shiva and Shakti, the male and female adepts. These dialogs were
written down and became known as Tantras. These dialogs, being
intimate in nature, included sexual secrets as well as many other
topics. These teachings can help a person to enjoy life to the
fullest, helping to do away with guilt or fear, breaking down self imposed
or limiting cultural boundaries.
Tantric Quest
Tantric Paths
Woman's
Guide
Sensual Yoga
Jewel in the Lotus
Vajrayana
Yoga Paths for women:
The Women's
Book of Yoga provides not only the asanas, but also a chart to log
your progress and inspiring words. When a pose is introduced, the Women's
Book of Yoga describes the benefits, basic position instructions and
how to breath for each asana. Highly recommended reading.
A good Hatha yoga asana for women is
called the Locust. Lie flat on your stomach. Place your hands in
fists under the body close to the ovaries inside the hips. Keeping
the chin and upper torso on the ground, raise your legs as high as you can
without straining yourself. Your legs should stay as straight as
possible. Breathe long and deeply through the nose. Continue
for 1-3 minutes. This posture is called "Locust." Lower
your legs, take a few deep breathes and relax. Before doing this exercise,
and before participating in any exercise program consult your
physician.
Prenatal
Yoga
Postnatal Yoga
Yoga
for
Pregnancy
Children's Yoga
Paths
Children's Book
of Yoga
Yoga for the
Special Child
Meditating
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