The Healing Power of Yoga

275

This is a book about yoga, a holistic system for creating and sustaining balance and harmony on all the levels of our being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. It’s about yoga’s boundless potential for healing, for bringing about beneficial change on all these levels.

Kriya Yoga

495

Paramahamsa Hariharananda’s discourse regarding the scientifically provenbenefits of Kriya Yoga make this book a rare treasure for any sincere seeker. The world-renowned realized master describes the stages of spiritual transformation in detail, incluyding many experiences that sadhaks, even those in family life, may encounter while practicing. At the same time he uses his unique scientific approach to explain how physical and mental functions also improve.

Prana Yoga

390

Dr. Nalini Sahay explains Prana Yoga Sadhana thoroughly and relates this to her own personal experiences. She has been teaching Prana Yoga Sadhana with great success in the different Yoga Vidya Centres and Ashrams in Germany. She has also successfully trained many Yoga Teachers in teaching Prana Yoga Sadhana themselves.

Eighty-Four Asanas in Yoga

1,000

Physical postures are the most important and often the only constituent of modern Yoga. Many practitioners believe that the postures derive from an ancient original set of eighty-four asanas. This book, for the first time, traces traditions of eighty-four postures by examining original materials, including drawings, descriptions in older Indic texts and modern publications which reflect contemporary traditions.

Capturing The Aura

495

The aura has been given many names over the centuries – ch’i, prana, karnaeem, and Illiaster. In fact, it has been documented for over 5,000 years. Astral lights alluded to by ancient Eastern Indians, Chinese and Jewish mystics are attributed to a universal energy permeating all matter.

Soma in Yoga and Ayurveda

395

The secret of Soma, the legendary mystic drink of immortality, first lauded by India’s ancient Vedic seers ? Is Soma a single plant, a type of plants, a way of healing, a special intoxicant, or an inner elixir produced by Yoga and meditation ? Going back to the vision of the Vedic seers, David Frawley reveals the secret of Soma for body, mind and spirit, with its profound implications from diet and herbs to pranayama, mantra and meditation.

Suryanamaskar

600

“Our body is essential for every achievement” said an ancient seer. That body should not be diseased but rather strong and healthy, with perfect harmony between the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects. One’s natural state should include an all-encompassing feeling of unusual lightness, a fullness of health, and an experience of overall contentment,. Bliss and perfection, overflowing vitality and energy, are the human birthright.

Changing Mind

395

This book by Dr. Desmarais is by all means a positive contribution in the field of yoga, Indologfy and cognitive neurosciences. It covers Eastern and Western, ancient and modern, religion and metaphysics, psychology and epistemology, as well as the cultural heritage for these.