By T. K. V. Desikachar
The 1st yoga textual content to stipulate a step by step series for constructing an entire perform in line with viniyoga--yoga tailored to the desires of the individual.
• a modern vintage by means of a world-renowned teacher.
• This new version provides thirty-two poems through Krishnamacharya that catch the essence of his teachings.
Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over a hundred years previous, used to be one of many maximum yogis of the trendy period. parts of Krishnamacharya's educating became renowned all over the world throughout the paintings of B. okay. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Krishnamacharya's son T. ok. V. Desikachar lived and studied along with his father all his lifestyles and now teaches the complete spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga. Desikachar has dependent his technique on Krishnamacharya's basic idea of viniyoga, which keeps that practices has to be continuously tailored to the individual's altering must in attaining the utmost healing value.
In The center of Yoga Desikachar bargains a distillation of his father's process in addition to his personal sensible process, which he describes as "a application for the backbone at each level--physical, psychological, and spiritual." this is often the 1st yoga textual content to stipulate a step by step series for constructing a whole perform in line with the age-old ideas of yoga. Desikachar discusses the entire parts of yoga--poses and counterposes, unsleeping respiring, meditation, and philosophy--and exhibits how the yoga pupil might improve a convention adapted to his or her present nation of health and wellbeing, age, career, and lifestyle.
This is a revised variation of The center of Yoga.
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Bhagavan Sri Vajrasattva. Painting from The Temple of the Great Contemplation: Merigar. © Shang Shung Institute. 39 Chogyal Namkhai Norbu teaching Yantra Yoga in 19 7I FOREWORD YANTRA YOGA IS A SYSTEM of practice that includes physical movements, breathing exercises and methods of concentration. It can be considered the equivalent of Hathavoga within the Buddhist tradition. While there are numerous systems of Yantra or Trulkhor' belonging to various tantric cycles, the only system that is currently diffused in the West is the Yantra presented in this book, which has been taught since the early 1970s by the master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu.
The Curved Knife I57 3. The Dagger I65 4. The Dog 173 5. The Spider 181 THIRD SERIES: The Secret Breathing for Directing the Prana into the Central Channel 189 THE PRANAYAMA 189 THE YANTRAS 194 1. The Bow 195 2. The Half-Moon 203 3. The Lion 211 4. The Vulture 219 5. The Triangle 227 FOURTH SERIES: The Smooth Breathing with Seven Limbs 235 THE PRANAYAMA 235 THE YANTRAS 240 1. The Locust 241 2. The Dove 249 3. The Trident 257 4. The Tiger 265 5. The jewel 273 FIFTH SERIES: The Rough Breathing with Six Applications 281 THE PRANAYAMA 281 THE YANTRAS 285 1.
18 10. Humkara. Detail of thangka by Glen Eddy. Private collection of john Shane. ©John Shane. 24 11. Padmasambhava. Painting from The Temple of the Great Contemplation: Merigar. © Shang Shung Institute. 33 12. Changchub Dorje. Thangka by unknown artist, Khamdogar, Tibet. 36 13. Bhagavan Sri Vajrasattva. Painting from The Temple of the Great Contemplation: Merigar. © Shang Shung Institute. 39 Chogyal Namkhai Norbu teaching Yantra Yoga in 19 7I FOREWORD YANTRA YOGA IS A SYSTEM of practice that includes physical movements, breathing exercises and methods of concentration.