Author: David Frawley
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 333
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120818792
Description
Yoga and Ayurveda together form a complete approach for optimal health. Vitality and higher awareness. Yoga and Ayurveda reveals to us the secret powers of the body, breath, senses, mind and charkas. More importantly it unfolds transformational methods to work on them through diet, herbs, asana, pranayam and meditation.
This is the first book published in the West on these two extraordinary subjects and their interface. It has the power to change the lives of those who read and apply it.
REVIEWS
Once again, Dr David Frawley demonstrates his ability to make timeless wisdom relevant for the modern person. His new book illustrates why I consider David to be a true Rishi-a knower of reality. Yoga and Ayurveda should be in the library of every serious student of Yoga and Vedic knowledge.
-Dr Deepark Chopra
Yoga and Ayurveda impels, guides and teaches us how to connect our earthly physicality with our soulful aspirations, in the process teaching us the inner art of controlling our subtle energies. Hinduism today endorses Yoga and Ayurveda and knows that it will further the on-going Hindu renaissance by virtue of the lucid, well-explained teachings that it contains.
-Hinduism Today
Through a skillful exploration of the inner dimensions of these two great sister sciences, Dr David Frawley has performed a wonderful service to anyone seeking to restore wholeness in body, mind and spirit.
-Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Spiritual Director of the Himalayan Institute
Contents
FOREWORD BY GEORG FEUERSTEIN
PREFACE
PART ONE
Background of Yoga and Ayurveda: Integral Vision of the Universe and the Individual Human Being
Yoga and Ayurveda: The Sciences of Self-Realization and Self-Healing
Dharma and Tattva: The Universal Philosophy of Yoga and Ayurveda
The Three Gunas and Mental Nature
The Dance of the Doshas: Ayurvedic Constitution and Yoga
The Paths of Yoga
PART TWO
The Energetics of Yoga and Ayurveda: Secrets of Self-Transformation
The Soul and its Different Bodies
Prana, Tejas and Ojas: Secrets of Yogic Alchemy
Agni Yoga: Harnessing the Inner Fire
Secrets of the Five Pranas
Kundalini and the Chakras: Awakening the Subtle Body
The Nadis: The Channel Systems of Mind and Prana
PART THREE
The Practices of Yoga and Ayurveda: Techniques of Inner Transformation
Yogic and Ayurvedic Diets: Similarities and Differences
Preparing Soma: Herbs for the Practice of Yoga
Asana: Yoga Postures for Health and Awareness
Methods of Pranayama
Pratyahama: the Forgotten Limb of Yoga
Mantra Purusha: The Person of Sound
Meditation and the Mind
APPENDICES
The Vedic Connection
Endnotes
Sanskrit Glossary
Sanskrit Pronunciation Key
Bibliography, English and Sanskrit
INDEX