The Vijnana Yoga Beginners Practice Manual is an invaluable companion for people who have just discovered yoga and wish to practice on their own. The manual outlines a basic program for each day of the week including a series of asanas with detailed drawings and Sanskrit names on each page.The manual also provides guidance especially tailored for beginners. It explains how to develop an independent home practice, helping the student find ways to cultivate apersonal meeting with yoga outside the yoga class. It also introduces the student to the Seven Vital Principles of Vijnana Yoga, which describe the more subtle aspects of yogic technique and attitude. Through integration of the principles, students can explore the ease and steadiness in asana described in the original yogic texts.

Vijnana Yoga: Beginners Practice Manual

Sen-Gupta, Orit

Religion & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The heart of Yoga is practice. The Vijnana Yoga Practice Manual outlines in large part the weekly sequence of daily practices that international yoga teacher Dona Holleman personally practiced with B.K.S Iyengar in the 1960s and later transmitted to Orit Sen-Gupta.Morning practice includes pranayama and then a different group of asanas: standing poses, forward bends, backbends or hand balances. Afternoon practice includes inverted poses and sitting positions.In this manual, the practitioner will find drawings of the asanas for each day of the week alongside their Sanskrit names, and also guidelines for deepening personal practice. The guidelines reveal ways of attentive listening that create a balanced and nourishing weekly routine that is also challenging and a foundation for ongoing understanding.The manual also details the Seven Vital Principles of Vijnana Yoga, which relate to the more subtle aspects of yogic technique and attitude. Through integration of the principles, practitioners can explore and clarify the ease and steadiness in asana described in the original yogic texts.

Vijnana Yoga Practice Manual

Dancing the Body of Light: The Future of Yoga

This book is a complete reference on Yoga offering a new approach to this timeless art. Based on an understanding of the body-mind complex and its interaction with the basic laws of physics and anatomy, this fully illustrated manual with more than 400 photographs explains in detail the inner logic behind practing this innovative form of Yoga.

Holleman, Dona

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pegasus Enterprises

Vayu's Gate is the first and only book about the Ten Vayus. Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience will find in this volume inspiration and new insights for asana and pranayama practice. The Vayus system is an ancient Yogic practice that has been lost in time. Only few obscure descriptions in Sanskrit texts were left of this profound method. Years of research have led international yoga teacher, Orit Sen-Gupta, to unravel the mysteries of this powerful vayu practice. New realms of consciousness and knowledge of the body open up, as the ten vital vayus, connecting body and mind, are discovered. In Vayu's Gate the subtle and far-reaching techniques of the vayus are brought to life again. A detailed and illustrated description of vayu practice in pranayama and asana is provided, enabling yoga practitioners of all levels to experience the inner presence of the vayus and to adopt the vayus into their own practice, investing it with a new dimension.

Vayu's Gate: Yoga and the Ten Vital Winds

Vijnana Books

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Independently published