The Tree of Yoga: Yoga VṛkṣaIn this book, one of the world's foremost teachers of yoga offers his thoughts on many practical and philosophical subjects, ranging from the place of yoga in daily life to insights from Pata jali's Yoga Sutras. He includes chapters on family life, love and sexuality, health and the healing arts, meditation, death, and advice to teachers. Based on lectures and discussions with his students, the text is enlivened by many of the author's personal experiences in the practice of yoga postures and breathing as well as in putting spiritual principles into action. |
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afferent nerves āsana asanas awareness ayurveda B. K. S. Iyengar become blood body brahmacharya brain breath bring cells chapter churning comes concentration consciousness core dhāraṇā dhyāna dhyāna and samādhi discipline disease divine energy exhalation experience five sheaths flow fluctuations fruit give glaucoma Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā hatha-yoga head-balance heart Hindu īda India individual inhalation integration intelligence inverted poses Iyengar KĀMA knowledge known kumbhaka live Mahābhāṣya means meditation mental mind movement muscles nerves niyama organs of action organs of perception overstretch Pada pain parasympathetic nervous system Patañjali path performing person physical physiological pingalā practice of asanas practice of yoga practising yoga practitioner prāņa prāṇāyāma pratyāhāra pupils reach realisation samādhi SANNYASIN seed Similarly Sītā ŚIVA skin soul spiritual stage of YOGA stretch subtle body Sutras svādhyāya teacher teaching thought tion tree of yoga understand VEDAS words yama Yoga Sūtras yogi yogīs