Self-Awakening Yoga: The Expansion of Consciousness through the Body's Own Wisdom
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0892811838
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Takes yoga back to its roots as a creative learning process and an expansion of consciousness, not just a technique for health and fitness
• Provides simple techniques that enhance the free flow of prana to promote physical and emotional healing, self-discovery, and spiritual evolution
• Includes over 100 exercises and meditations for a self-structured practice
• Teaches how to release the body’s inefficient, painful patterns and to access unknown potentials through kinesthetic inquiries
• Includes 60-minute audio CD-V of four guided meditation exercises
When artist and professor Don Stapleton discovered yoga, it marked the beginning of a journey into the awakening powers of prana--the energy of yogic purification--and the natural spiritual and healing properties of his own body. After 30 years of extensive yoga training, an accident left him with a severe injury to the spine. Faced with the challenge of physical recovery, Stapleton drew upon his knowledge of yoga to create a series of exercises that allowed him to recover freedom of movement, release emotional blockages, and unleash his spiritual and physical potential.
Self-Awakening Yoga is the synthesis of Stapleton’s practice. More than 100 exercises--from focusing on the breath to accessing primal sound--show how to unlock the wisdom and power of prana to engage the body’s healing powers. His simple exercises and meditations focus on natural movements that encourage body awareness. Readers learn how to listen to what the body is saying before engaging in any specific yoga postures. Self-Awakening Yoga takes yoga back to its roots as a creative learning process and an expansion of consciousness, not just a technique for health and fitness.
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left shoulder. Let your right elbow become heavy. Lower your ear and head to rest on that hand and shoulder. Bend the left elbow and move the shoulder in up-and-down circles (fig. 9.32). Release your jaw and the muscles of your face. Allow yourself to give voice to any sounds that want to emerge. 15. Bring your right arm overhead and take hold of your left ear. Cradle the weight of your head with that hand. Extend your right elbow up to the sky and begin to make imaginary circles with the