Kriya Yoga for Self-Discovery

Practices for Deep States of Meditation
Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2021
Inner Traditions Bear and Company (Verlag)
978-1-64411-218-2 (ISBN)

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A detailed guide to the breath-focused meditation practice of Kriya yoga for spiritual growth, inner stillness, and self-realization

• Explains the basic techniques of the practice, detailing proper posture, breathwork exercises (pranayama), bandhas, third-eye gazing, and the use of mantra

• Presents advanced, yet simple, techniques that accelerate a contemplative practice by micro-modulations related to posture, respiration, visualization, and sound

• Includes wisdom from the author’s teacher Ganesh Baba on the importance of the spine in Kriya yoga and the Cycle of Synthesis, a model of the human experience

Kriya yoga is an ancient meditation technique that focuses on breathing and the spine to unlock deep states of awareness, self-realization, and spiritual growth. Kriya can provide a fast path to awakening, yet its practice has been shrouded in secrecy, passed only from master to initiate for millennia.

Introduced into Kriya 40 years ago, Keith Lowenstein, M.D., offers an accessible yet detailed guide to Kriya yoga. He explains the basic techniques of the practice step by step, detailing proper posture, breathwork exercises (pranayama), visualization practices, and mantra. He reveals how Kriya is a scientific art--if practiced consistently, it will allow you to quickly enter deep states of meditation and ultimately experience inner stillness. He also explores how the practice of Kriya leads to healing and the development of compassion and the freeing joy of the union of Nature and Spirit.

 

Keith G. Lowenstein, M.D., is board certified in psychiatry and integrative medicine. He began his study of the mind-body interface in 1971 with training in transcendental meditation and in 1980 began his training in Kriya yoga with Ganesh Baba. He maintains an integrative mental health private practice in Portland, Oregon. Andrea J. Lett, M.A., is a body-mind wellness practitioner with 20 years’ experience practicing and teaching meditation and yoga. An award-winning writer, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

Foreword by Andrea J. Lett

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Kriya Path

PART I
THE SPIRITUAL AND SCIENTIFIC LINEAGE OF KRIYA
1 Meditation: A Contemplative Art
2 Roots and Fundamentals of Kriya Yoga
3 Spirit-Infused Science
4 Balancing the Basics

PART II
PRACTICING KRIYA YOGA
5 Spiritualization, the Cycle of Synthesis, and the Four Vs of Kriya
6 Spine Bolt Upright Posture as a Fast-Track to the Infinite
7 Pranayama and the Cultivation of Joy
8 Refining the Techniques and Creating a Kriya Yoga Session

PART III
THE SCIENTIFIC EFFECTS OF KRIYA YOGA
9 Wellness, Stress, Psychology, and Kriya Yoga
10 Kriya Yoga, the Autonomic Nervous System, and the Development of Resiliency
11 The Brilliant and Intelligent Brain

PART IV
THE SPIRITUAL EFFECTS OF KRIYA YOGA
12 Survival of the Most Mindful
13 Samadhi
14 Subtle Energies of Kriya
15 Kriya and the Practice of Compassion Final Thoughts on the Teachings of Kriya

APPENDIX I
Nature, Psychedelics, and Meditation

APPENDIX II
Additional Resources

APPENDIX III
Chai Recipe

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Andrea J. Lett
Zusatzinfo 55 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort Rochester
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 465 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
ISBN-10 1-64411-218-3 / 1644112183
ISBN-13 978-1-64411-218-2 / 9781644112182
Zustand Neuware
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