Personal Yoga

Healing with Somatic Yoga is your step-by-step guide to reconnecting with your body’s innate wisdom—through breath, movement, sound, and sensation. In this transformative 6-week journey, yoga teacher and somatic coach Brett Larkin helps you unwind stored trauma, regulate your nervous system, and build a felt sense of safety from the inside out. Whether you’re seeking emotional release, trauma recovery, or nervous system repair after burnout or chronic stress, this book is your invitation to heal—gently, playfully, and powerfully.

The world of yoga is astonishingly rich in its array of schools and practices. Yet, as diverse as they seem, they share a common aim: the discovery of the essence of existence that can be found at the core of our being, and the liberation that comes from that discovery. With this worthy goal in mind, Richard Freeman presents an enlightening overview of the many teachings, practices, and scriptures that serve as the basis for all the schools of yoga - hatha, bhakti, jnana, karma, tantra, and others.

With the simple teachings and cutting-edge research offered in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath, you can start thriving just by integrating breathwork into your daily practice.Basic Yantra Yoga techniques - also called wind energy training - are the key to achieving this kind of vitality, down to the cellular level. Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo skillfully examine the teachings of Yantra Yoga and Buddhism through the lens of Western medical science.

Among the various treatments for trauma, trauma-informed yoga stands out, rooted in an ancient practice, offering a safe, compassionate, and empowering path to recovery. This book, authored by a seasoned yoga practitioner, serves as a compassionate guide towards empowered healing, resilience, and personal growth.

Eight Limbs of Yoga - The Structure and Pacing of Self-Directed Spiritual Practice provides an efficient integration of a wide range of yoga practices for use in a daily routine that is compatible with an active lifestyle, while staying in tune with the centuries-old "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali."

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There’s so much more to teaching yoga than doing yoga - from building a relationship with a studio (or opening your own) to navigating client relationships, publicizing classes, and avoiding burnout. Sage Rountree has been training yoga teachers for over a decade, and she’s heard the same concerns over and over: How can I help my students best? How can I keep my teaching fresh? How can I make smart choices around my schedule, my money, and the next steps in my career? The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook speaks directly to these concerns in a warm, friendly voice.

Deep Meditation is a concise step-by-step instruction book for a simple yet powerful method of daily meditation that will systematically unfold inner peace, creativity and energy in daily life. Whether you are seeking an effective tool for reducing stress, improving your relationships, achieving more success in your career, or for revealing the ultimate truth of life within yourself, Deep Meditation can be a vital resource for cultivating your personal freedom and enlightenment.

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Spinal breathing pranayama is one of the most important practices in all of yoga, producing positive effects in our health, well-being, and every aspect of our daily living. Moreover, this simple daily practice purifies and opens us to our ecstatic inner realms, taking us on an exciting journey to inner space. The consequences of this journey are as practical as they are profound.

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Suzan Colon, yoga teacher and former senior editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, digs deep into the spiritual philosophy behind yoga and distills thirty essential components to enrich your practice and revolutionize your life from the inside out. We live in an increasingly stressful world, and we...

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.

This book can transform your life at its core. This is the opportunity that stands before you now. Material Success Through Yoga Principles is, in a sense, an autobiography of perseverance and loyalty to principle until success is achieved. Swami Kriyananda’s own life is proof that these principles work. And the successful lives of thousands he has influenced show that these principles can be of benefit to anyone who learns and uses them.

Mom and yoga teacher Sarah Ezrin offer 34 practices to find more presence, patience, and acceptance—with your child and with yourself. Each chapter highlights a yogic posture and theme and explores how it relates to parenting, including presence, boundaries, balance, and nonattachment. Chapters include prompts such as intention setting, breathwork, and journaling. Ezrin also features the stories and insights of a wide range of yoga practitioner parents whose experiences include single parenting, grandparenting, and passing on intergenerational yoga traditions.

Kundalini energy is something that we can all tap into and use to help us reach our fullest potential. It is a vital power source within each of us, ready to be used if we are willing to unlock it through meditation and self-reflection. As we move through the chapters in this book, you’ll learn how to activate and control your Kundalini energy as you go through the different stages of awakening.

Concise answers to the most commonly asked questions about yoga and illuminating little-known facts and esoteric aspects of the philosophy and practice - by renowned yogi Richard Rosen.

Découvrez votre chemin vers un calme inébranlable : Le guide scientifique pour vaincre les pensées excessives et trouver une paix profondeLes pensées qui se bousculent vous empêchent-elles de dormir ? Votre esprit ressemble-t-il à un navigateur avec trop d'onglets ouverts ? Et si vous pouviez accéder à un état de relaxation profonde, à tout moment et en tout lieu, en seulement 15 minutes ? Transformez votre relation avec le stress grâce à la pratique ancestrale du yoga nidra, désormais validée par les neurosciences modernes.

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-19th century, with roots in African traditions. How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along.

How to achieve deep, restorative sleep without pills or complex routines, even if you've struggled with insomnia for years. In The Yoga Nidra Sleep Book for Adults, you'll discover how this ancient practice, backed by modern sleep science, can transform your relationship with rest.

Asanas, Mudras and Bandhas: Awakening Ecstatic Kundalini provides a practical approach for incorporating yoga postures and specialized inner physical maneuvers into a compact daily routine of practices that includes spinal breathing pranayama and deep meditation. Kundalini awakening is covered with clarity, including a discussion of symptoms and specific methods for self-pacing and regulating the inner energies to provide for progressive and safe unfoldment of abiding inner silence, ecstatic bliss, and outpouring divine love.

What if you could process trauma while lying down in complete relaxation? Inside this comprehensive guide, you'll discover: A scientifically-backed 10-step system for processing difficult emotions while staying within your window of tolerance; 6 specialized 30-minute healing sequences designed to address specific emotional challenges; 4 quick 15-minute emergency practices for immediate emotional regulation; The breakthrough neuroscience behind how Yoga Nidra helps release trapped emotions.

Pur discendendo da una cultura lontana dalla nostra e da una disciplina molto antica, lo yoga è una pratica assai diffusa nel mondo occidentale contemporaneo, che si è dimostrata utile per il benessere fisico, psichico e per lo sviluppo della conoscenza di sé. La parola sanscrita "yoga" indica ogni metodo indiano di ascesi e di meditazione; così inteso, lo yoga ha avuto un ruolo cruciale in tutti i sentieri spirituali indiani che mirano a una trasformazione completa dell'essere umano.