In this inspiring and practical guide, a yoga master and bestselling author stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to help practitioners find the spiritual in everyday life. Illustrations.
Yoga is not a fad. It has been around in the United States for over a hundred years and has a history of approximately five millennia. It is clearly here to stay. Yoga has brought health and peace of mind to millions of people. It can do the same for you. The benefits of Yoga are many. When adopted as a lifestyle, Yoga extends over the entire day. ...
This book by Georg Feuerstein is considered by many to be the definitive overview of almost every conceivable aspect of yoga (including history, related literature, and meditation). Feuerstein, a prolific writer who founded the Yoga Research and Education Center in California, explains yoga's complex relationship with the Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina, ...
Beautifully packaged with two-color printing throughout, "Yoga Gems" is ideal for both the novice and the more mature practitioner--the perfect travel companion on the road to inner peace.
In this comprehensive text on Tantra, scholar Georg Feuerstein writes on the oft-misunderstood practice of Hindu religious expression. Known for his felicity of expression and intelligibility, Feuerstein eases the novice into a sound understanding of what some consider to be esoteric spiritual concepts: Tantra, its Hindu roots, and its course ...
Contrary to schoolbooks, India--not Sumer--may have been civilizations birth place. Current geological, archaeological, and linguistic evidence shows the ancient Indians had a highly evolved culture that still holds important answers for us today.
Written for beginners this ancient Shambhala guide considers all the major principles of yoga including diet, morality, mantras, and Hatha Yoga itself. Special atte ntion is given to more esoteric topics such as Kundalini Yog a and Tantra. '
This comprehensive reference offers a portrayal of a rich and highly complex spiritual tradition of India, its many approaches, schools, and teachers, its scriptures and its technical terminology. The book is arranged and written so that it will inform rather than overwhelm the lay reader.
Scholar/writer/yoga expert Georg Feuerstein, author of SHAMBHALA GUIDE TO YOGA, offers another study to accompany the practice. This book, as in his encyclopedic doctrine THE YOGA TRADITION, explains the other crucial aspects of the yoga life that extend far beyond nailing down the correct form of the physical poses. Feuerstein encourages yoga ...
Georg Feuerstein's SACRED SEXUALITY operates on the principle that modern man has lost his spiritual/erotic connection to the divine, a connection that is essential to spiritual practice. He traces this erotic spirituality back to ancient, matriarchal, and goddess-worshipping religions, discussing such things as sacred prostitution and mystery ...
Yoga's original spiritual wisdom and practices. A leading scholar and practitioner of Yoga in the West for more than 30 years, Feuerstein introduces you to the wonders beyond Yoga's postures and breathing techniques, and points the way to the "inner strength and mental peace" that is Yoga's first objective. Taught by Feuerstein himself, this full ...
LIVING YOGA is an in-depth and admirably comprehensive guide to the yogic lifestyle, aimed at people for whom yoga is not just a passing fad but an enduring choice. Written like a textbook, it comprises short articles and essays--some original, some previously published in Yoga Journal magazine--about every conceivable aspect of yoga: diet, ...
Based on a vast diversity of religious and spiritual traditions, this comprehensive exploration of sexuality's spiritual dimensions uncovers deeply hidden messages about sexuality and shows how to incorporate the concepts of Hinduism, Christianity, Judasim, and other philosophies into our lives. Illustrated.
Beginning with how to find ever-deepening intimacy and then expanding into the realm of finding union with the Divine, this lyrical and heartfelt book offers wisdom that will speak directly to readers' hearts and expand their notion of what love is.
This book explores what integral morality and maturity means in traditional yogic terms and in the context of contemporary culture. Feuerstein shows how the ancient teachings of Yoga are singularly relevant in our time of global crisis. At the same time, he offers a trenchant critique of the contemporary Yoga movement. This work, which is full of ...
This book is from a leading expert on India's vast spiritual and cultural experience: how to balance two fundamental and complementary spiritual urges - one to forsake ego and world in favour of the formless infinite, the other to integrate mystical experience with daily living.
Yoga is enormously popular as a physical exercise and a spiritual practice. This is a collection of writings on yoga spanning its entire 4000 year history. There are selections from the Bhagavad-Gita and Upanishads as well as from modern masters such as Gandhi, Swami Vivikenda and Gopi Krishna. Editor and translator Georg Feuerstein is one of ...
One of the greatest living authorities on the inner teachings of yoga introduces practitioners to the endangered mental and spiritual disciplines of this powerful philosophy for living. From yoga's origins and how it evolved into many schools to the esoteric principles that unite them all, here is the perfect primer on yoga and its authentic ...
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