Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy: A Bridge from Body to Soul
Language: English
Pages: 206
ISBN: 1558745130
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
While there are many yoga books on the market today, little has been written about yoga as a personal-growth tool. This book shows readers how to use a unique blend of yoga and psychology to bridge the gap between body and soul.
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from a place of attunement with the Truth. It’s a bold move, strewn with obstacles challenging each seeker to disengage from the familiar in order to realize the Divine potentials that lie dormant within. In your own way, you’ve already traveled down this path of self-knowledge. You know what it’s like. Some of those now working with you also have experience on this path. They, too, know the disturbance and turmoil, and ultimately, the sublime joy and liberation this process invites. It’s
barely out of their 20s and me pushing 50. It’s a great chance to once again shake loose the concepts that I’m using to create my reality. Lori told me once that in her Middle Eastern culture, each child that is born is seen as the bearer of gifts. At first I laughed about it and didn’t buy it. Now I’m beginning to see how it works. I see the gifts, the joy, and the pain, and surrender to all. By Divine coincidence, about the time of Joshua’s birth I was working with a client named Ellie who
desperately tried for several years to have children. Both Ellie and her husband had infertility examinations which came up negative but after several more months of trying there was still no baby. During one session after a considerable physical release around her shoulders during an assisted chest-opening posture, she sat in a crossed-leg position as I guided her in meditation. She took her time to speak after the meditation and I could see from her expression that something had affected her
experience occasional insights into who I was and who I was becoming. I began to see how many of my decisions in earlier years had been based on fear. Not the deep kind of fear that stops you in your tracks, but rather the kind of fear that says, “You might never be able to get what you really want so grab what you can if, and when, it appears.” I gradually began to accept responsibility for the way in which I had created and was maintaining the relationship. In a healthy relationship, we are
which gave me the opportunity to live at Kripalu and use my residency as the focus of a thesis on the therapeutic value of yoga using myself as the subject. I immediately fell in love with my new abode, the environment and the people. I drew much needed inspiration for my spiritual journey from the practices, the interactions, and the evening gatherings with senior residents and Amrit Desai. My thought was that perhaps this was a community I could live in for a long time. The hardships of a