The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

by Swami Saradananda
The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

by Swami Saradananda

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Overview

Chakras are the body's subtle energy centers, vital toour physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. This comprehensive book provides a detailed guide to the characteristics of each chakra and how you can work with them to heal and balance every aspect of your life.

Beginning with an outline of the key energy concepts, including prana, the nadis and kundalini energy, the book goes on to explain the basic techniques for working with chakras, including: meditating on yantras, the geometric representation of chakra energies, mantras, exercises, and journaling.

This highly accessible guide explores each chakra in depth, describing key characteristics and related physical disorders, providing helpful yoga poses and breathing techniques, and giving clear information on how to recognize the signs that a specific chakra is overactive, underactive or balanced. You will also discover how the chakras relate to each other and find advice on protecting yourself while working energetically. This is an essential book for anyone wanting to achieve total well-being through understanding and working with these vital energy centers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780280042
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 08/01/2011
Series: Essential Guides
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 1,068,198
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Swami Saradananda is an internationally renowned yoga and meditation teacher who has inspired thousands of people to practice. She has been teaching for almost forty years, and is the author of a number of books, including The Power of Breath,Chakra Meditation Relax and Unwind with YogaYoga Mind and BodyThe Essential Guide to Chakras and the upcoming Mudras for Modern Life. For 26 years, she worked with the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and directed their facilities in New York, London, New Delhi and the Himalayas. After an extended period of personal practice in the Himalayas in 2001, she was author in residence at the Peacemaker Community in Western Massachusetts, and she then went on to direct yoga and meditation retreat Haus Yoga Vidya, just outside of Cologne, Germany. For the past few years, she has lived between London and New York but she spends several months each year teaching in Germany and several more in India. Swami Saradananda teaches yoga worldwide, leads pilgrimages to India and writes extensively. She is also a trustee of the Ganga Prem Hospice, a charity that is seeking to build a cancer hospice in Rishikesh, North India.
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