Art and Science of Raja Yoga: Fourteen Steps to Higher Awareness, Based on the Teachings of Paramhansa YoganandaThe book contains fourteen lessons in which the original yoga science emerges in all of its glory-a proven system for realizing one`s spiritual destiny. This is the most comprehensive course on yoga and meditation available today, giving you a profound and intimate understanding of how to apply these age-old teachings, on a practical, as well as spiritual, day-to-day level in this modern age. |
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I have found the material in these lessons to be very helpful in bringing the deeper insights of yoga into practical application in my life.
Contents
Foreword | 13 |
Suggestions for Study | 17 |
Authors Prefatory Note | 19 |
The History of Yoga | 23 |
Special Guidelines | 30 |
Savasana | 35 |
Routine | 37 |
Insomnia Part | 38 |
Healing | 239 |
Diet | 241 |
Prayer Chanting Japa and Mantra | 243 |
Energy and Energization | 255 |
SuptaVajrasana ArdhaSalabhasana ArdhaMatsyendrasana Akarshana Dhanurasana Garudasana | 264 |
Kapalabhati Pranayama | 271 |
Routine | 273 |
Circulation and the Blood | 274 |
Insomnia Part Two | 40 |
Meditation | 41 |
The Paths of Yoga | 45 |
Basic Principles and Practices Vrikasana Chandrasana Trikonasana Paschimotanasana Halasana | 52 |
Breathing | 61 |
Routine | 63 |
Integration vs Disintegration | 64 |
Diet 67 | 67 |
Meditation | 69 |
THE EIGHTFOLD PATH I Philosophy Patanjalis Ashtanga Yoga The Eightfold Path | 75 |
Savasana Paschimotanasana III Breathing The Full Yogic Breath | 84 |
Routine | 86 |
Hypertension and Nervousness ICSS 07 | 87 |
YAMA | 99 |
Janushirasana Dhanurasana | 117 |
NIYAMA | 129 |
Chakrasana Simhasana | 136 |
Life Is a Battlefield | 159 |
Affirmations Part 1 | 187 |
Diet | 205 |
Meditation on the Elements | 208 |
AFFIRMATIONS PART 2 | 219 |
Sitting PosesSiddhasana Padmasana ArdhaPadmasana Sukhasana | 234 |
Breathing | 236 |
Routine | 238 |
Simplicity in All Things | 275 |
Concentration | 278 |
Magnetism | 289 |
Parvatasana Salabhasana Matsyasana Yoga Mudra Dhanurasana | 304 |
Breathing | 306 |
Routine | 307 |
Sex Problems | 308 |
Diet | 312 |
A HongSau Outline | 315 |
B Magnetism | 319 |
Guru | 323 |
The Inverted Poses Sarvangasana Sethu Bandhasana Sirshasana Snusuna | 328 |
Sitali Pranayama | 336 |
Diet | 342 |
THE ANATOMY OF YOGA PART 1 | 351 |
Advanced PosesNauli Mayurasana | 362 |
Diet | 372 |
THE ANATOMY OF YOGA PART 2 | 387 |
Diet | 413 |
THE YOGIC SCHEME OF LIFE | 423 |
Yoga Postures | 437 |
Diet for Meditation | 447 |
A Farewell to the Student | 455 |
An Overview by Subject Matter | 469 |
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