Path to the Awakened Heart: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Path to the Awakened Heart: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Author: Robert Jacobs
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2024-02-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Path to the Awakened Heart: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a comprehensive interpretation and analysis of one of the fundamental scriptures in the Indian yoga tradition. In his rendering, Robert Jacobs points to the universality of the teachings and practices in the Yoga Sutras, explaining how they form foundational elements of many spiritual paths. Interpreted in a non-dual manner consistent with teachings of the tantric yoga tradition of India, Robert provides contemplations with the sutras that allow the reader to understand the subtleties and depth of each sutra. The Yoga Sutras is one of the most comprehensive guidebooks ever written about walking a spiritual path. It offers meditators a unique opportunity to explore the intricacies of their practices and paths.

Journey to the Awakened Heart

Journey to the Awakened Heart
Author: Robert Jacobs
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1982215577

Robert Jacobs has written an intriguing series about his spiritual path, Path to the Awakened Heart. His first book, Journey to the Awakened Heart, follows him as a young seeker in the 1970s, determined to discover more to life than the materialism he found in American culture. He moves to Paris and then begins to explore the world, traveling to West Africa, Morocco, Central Asia and finally to India, where he slowly finds answers to his spiritual search. Ultimately, he meets an illumined spiritual teacher from India and spends most of the next 18 years living in yoga and meditation ashrams in India and the United States, engaging himself fully in cultivating what he comes to understand is an awakened consciousness. His memoir provides an intimate picture of what it was like for a Westerner to live a traditional monastic life in an Indian ashram. More importantly, it shows how living with an enlightened spiritual master transformed the author’s life from being merely mentally spiritual to enabling spirituality to permeate his life. Finally, the book follows the author in his transition to a more normal worldly life as husband and father, applying the lessons he learned from his ashram days to the many challenges of modern life. Together the author’s two books offer a profound picture of how Eastern spirituality has developed and transformed in the past 70 years within a Western context.

Awakening from Anxiety

Awakening from Anxiety
Author: Connie L. Habash
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 164250081X

Use this spiritual guide to equip yourself with the tools needed to tear down anxiety and build inner peace. Spiritual people often find that their own expectations of living a life dedicated to a higher power makes them more susceptible to high-functioning anxiety. Sometimes, traditional relaxation techniques either do not work, don’t last, or, in some cases, actually increase their anxiety. Psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and interfaith minister Rev. Connie L. Habash has helped hundreds of spiritual people overcome fear and anxiety, regain happiness, and feel calmer. In over twenty-five years as a counselor helping spiritual people overcome anxiety, Rev. Connie has taught that it takes more than chanting mantras, stretching, or relaxation techniques to calm anxiety. It requires a transformation in perception, moment-to-moment body awareness, and a conscious response to thoughts and emotions. Awakening from Anxiety provides valuable psycho-spiritual tools to deepen spiritual awakening and calm fears:Learn what anxiety is and when it becomes a problemUnderstand the six mistakes spiritual people make that increase anxietyDiscover the seven keys to a more calm, confident, courageous lifeKnow how to break through the old patterns of stress, worry, and fear into a new perception of your true selfExplore spiritual principles and yoga philosophy to cultivate inner peace If you enjoyed Stop Anxiety from Stopping You and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Awakening from Anxiety will take your healing and renewal from anxiety to the next level. “A book I will recommend to many for both practical advice and spiritual insights for handling stress, worry, and anxiety.”?Becca Anderson, author of Prayers for Calm

Awakening through the Nine Bodies

Awakening through the Nine Bodies
Author: Phillip Moffitt
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1623171911

This “beautiful” illustrated guide for meditation and yoga students of all spiritual traditions “offers subtle and vast teachings on the mystery of the body and mind” (Jack Kornfield, author of No Time Like the Present). Based on meditation practices Phillip Moffitt learned twenty years ago from Himalayan yoga master Sri Swami Balyogi Premvarni, this beautifully illustrated book is a guide to exploring the nature of mind and gaining a better understanding of experiences that arise during meditation. The Nine Bodies teachings map out a journey that starts with consciousness that arises in the physical body and is directly observable, and then travels through ever more subtle levels of consciousness to that which is not manifest and is only potential, and therefore has to be inferred. The book includes a series of mysterious illustrations that Balyogi created during his time of intense Samadhi explorations. Each illustration is a rich composition of symbols that express aspects of inner experiences that are almost impossible to express with language. Moffitt makes these teachings available for meditation students from all spiritual traditions to use as gateways for exploring the nature of mind and as additional means for tracking and classifying meditative experiences. Students of yoga will also find value in the teachings of the Nine Bodies as they provide a means for contextualizing and connecting with yogic teachings on chakras, koshas, gunas, and the Three Bodies.

THE SCIENCE OF YOGA

THE SCIENCE OF YOGA
Author: Pankaj Singh
Publisher: Book Saga Publications
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2024-06-09
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 8197412820

The word ‘Yoga’ is derived from Sanskrit root yuj which means ‘join’ or ‘unite’. This may be taken as the union of body, mind and soul, and is used in the literature both as an end as well as means. As an end, yoga signifies ‘integration of personality’ at the highest level. As means, yoga includes various practices and techniques which are employed to achieve the development of such integration. These practices and techniques are means in the yogic literature and are also referred collectively as ‘Yoga’.

Silence of the Heart

Silence of the Heart
Author: Robert Adams
Publisher: Acropolis Books (GA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Spiritual life
ISBN: 9781889051536

One of the clearest presentations of India's Advaita Vedanta, the doctrine of Oneness. Adams, an American student of the great master, Ramana Maharshi, discourses with wisdom and delightful humor as he clarifies for Westerners India's teaching of Ultimate Reality.

The Path of Clear Light

The Path of Clear Light
Author: Barbara Brodsky
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9780974555218

A spiritual teaching from Aaron, channeled by Barbara Brodsky, on the meditation practice of Clear Light, a non-duality practice. This book is a clear and concise culmination of Aaron¿s teachings on the simultaneous experience of relative and ultimate reality, which is the heart of dharma and the path of liberation. His step-by step explanations invite participation of the reader at any level. The book is filled with Aaron¿s usual deep wisdom and kindness.

Lovebliss

Lovebliss
Author: Jan Esmann
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1846945151

The book answers the question what Self-realization is and which stages lie before and beyond. It contributes to the field of such books by focusing on lovebliss and the spiritual energy of the Self (Shakti), rather than simply pure being or the now. It is written solely from experience. Further it contributes by putting the insights of the first two thirds of the book into perspective with new readable translations (from Sanskrit with commentaries) of Yoga-S

Journey Into Power

Journey Into Power
Author: Baron Baptiste
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1668002108

A guide to physical, mental, and spiritual transformation explains how to rewire thinking, cleanse diet habits, meditate for truthful living, and do ten-minute tune-ups that boost energy and alleviate stress.