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Healing Yoga: A Guide to Integrating the Chakras with Your Yoga Practice
Healing Yoga is the first fully illustrated book to outline the connection between yoga and the chakras, the body's vital energy centers where our spiritual and physical well-being dovetail. Practicing this form of yoga, according to the author, maximizes the benefits of restoring balance and harmony and maintaining vitality. Detailed in full-color photos are the asanas, breathwork, mudras, visualizations, and mantras which connect to each chakra. These color photographs throughout the book make the yoga positions easy to follow and understand. Healing Yoga also includes a section on yoga for specific ailments, including migraines, high blood pressure, and depression. The author, a highly regarded Hindu monk, has been teaching yoga for more than twenty-five years.
144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 22, 2001
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April 15, 2012
This yoga book (in my ever expanding collection!) is one of my favourites.
Why?
It’s a two-in-one book: it’s a yoga book, and a book about personality types.
I’m not kidding!
The type of yoga is “Panchatattva,” (a type of Hatha yoga), and it helps yoga students to better understand themselves, and their relationships with others. The author asks the student to observe herself closely and honestly.
The “tattva” that you are most attracted to is your dominant “tattva.” The tattvas are related to the five chakras, so you can identify yourself with one or more of your dominant tattvas and their related chakras.
This isn’t as complicated as it sounds. It also isn’t (quite) as crazy as it sounds. I’ll give you an example:
We all know people who are “Akasha” types(related to the Vishuddha chakra, situated at the base of the throat). The Akasha type loves order. They are neat, orderly types who thrive on routines and don’t like surprises. They are wonderful at organizing systems in any field – computers, government, business...etc... They always fulfill their obligations, and they are extremely reliable.
Know anyone like that? You probably do. And we all have some “Akasha” in us. When I was a kid (I think about grade severn) I organized my parents’ basement books in alphabetical order. Then I attached little skicky labels on each book, with the first initial of the author on each..... Very Akasha. Very young librarianish.
After you ascertain which is your dominant tattva, you can then go on to find the yoga routine that will help you most.
To continue with my Akasha example, the routine to help these orderly types is one that helps these types deal with change. The first pose given is the “Nataraj 1" which is an interesting balance pose that is the symbolic of the ever changing dance of creation.
This is a fun yoga book that you can turn to when you find yourself out of balance in different ways.
It’s colourful, a bit wacky and fun to use.
Why?
It’s a two-in-one book: it’s a yoga book, and a book about personality types.
I’m not kidding!
The type of yoga is “Panchatattva,” (a type of Hatha yoga), and it helps yoga students to better understand themselves, and their relationships with others. The author asks the student to observe herself closely and honestly.
The “tattva” that you are most attracted to is your dominant “tattva.” The tattvas are related to the five chakras, so you can identify yourself with one or more of your dominant tattvas and their related chakras.
This isn’t as complicated as it sounds. It also isn’t (quite) as crazy as it sounds. I’ll give you an example:
We all know people who are “Akasha” types(related to the Vishuddha chakra, situated at the base of the throat). The Akasha type loves order. They are neat, orderly types who thrive on routines and don’t like surprises. They are wonderful at organizing systems in any field – computers, government, business...etc... They always fulfill their obligations, and they are extremely reliable.
Know anyone like that? You probably do. And we all have some “Akasha” in us. When I was a kid (I think about grade severn) I organized my parents’ basement books in alphabetical order. Then I attached little skicky labels on each book, with the first initial of the author on each..... Very Akasha. Very young librarianish.
After you ascertain which is your dominant tattva, you can then go on to find the yoga routine that will help you most.
To continue with my Akasha example, the routine to help these orderly types is one that helps these types deal with change. The first pose given is the “Nataraj 1" which is an interesting balance pose that is the symbolic of the ever changing dance of creation.
This is a fun yoga book that you can turn to when you find yourself out of balance in different ways.
It’s colourful, a bit wacky and fun to use.
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