Yoga, Tantra and Meditation in Daily Life

Yoga, Tantra and Meditation in Daily Life offers an alternative to the approach of most books on yoga, which mantain the misconception that the practice of yoga, tantra and meditation requires adopting a new lifestyle, learning new terminology, and performing strange exercises. Author Swami

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Janakananda demonstrates how you can practice tantric yoga and go on living your life as you usually do, just add another habit to the ones that you already have. Through yoga, your consciousness expands, the body becomes strong, and the mind becomes calm. You will find self-reliance and inner contentments. The step-by-step, well-illustrated instructions in this book take you from beginners' exercises to those for advanced students. You will learn how to meditate easily, how to breathe while doing yoga or meditaton, and how to do easy yoga poses and exercises, such as the back program that will help you improve your posture. Also included are programs for the elderly and for people recovering from ill health. Kundalini yoga and the tantric sexual act used as ritual meditation are also covered in this book.

Swami Janakananda is the foudner of the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School, one of the most advanced and well-founded schools in the West.

Contents

Part One Inroduction and background
1 Yoga
2 Why yoga and meditation?
3 How to begin
4 8 steps to yoga and meditation...and a way to use this book
5 The different spheres of yogic tradition (an introduction to the different branches of yoga including tantra, ashram, swami, kurtan, mantra and more)
Part Two The body, breathing and energy
6 How to use a yoga programme
'Sun I greet you'
The small wind-and tension -releasing exercises
Breathing I
Intermediate poses
Breathing II
Back programme
Hatha youga cleansing techniques
Loosening the knots/shaku bandha
Eye yoga
The ladder
The classical programme
Breathing III
The deep ones
How to sit when you meditate
7 The tantric sexual act
8 The chakras and kundalini yoga
Part Three The senses and the mind
9 How can I have a relaxed relationship to influences?
Pratyahara functions like this
Deep relaxation-little yoga nidra
Inner silence, 4 steps of a tantric meditation
Part Four Going deeper...
10 Inspired interest-On concentration
Introduction: 3 stages in meditation (coarse, forms made of ight, the very finest)
Outer Tratak, Inner Tratak
11 Clear awareness-On meditation
Body awareness
Breath awareness
Mantra
Ajapa japa, a meditation in the tantric kriya yoga tradition
12 Experience yourself
Self indentification, resting in the self, 'Who am I?'
Part Five ...and action
13 Yoga for daily life
Index and glossary

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