Contact Yoga: The Seven Points of Connection & Relationship

by Tara Lynda Guber, Norman Seeff (Photographer)

Overview

Contact Yoga presents an inspiring new vision of yoga created to deepen your relationships with lovers, friends, family and other intimates in your life. Contact Yoga explores that mysterious and dynamic edge where two people connect: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Tara Lynda Guber and Anodea Judith offer valuable insight into the dynamics of all loving relationships, using poses designed for two participants that bridge the “Seven Points of Contact.” Contact Yoga brings these seven points (trust, passion, commitment, love, communication, vision, and union) into focus as points on the body, training patterns of connecting and distancing, loving and protecting, giving and receiving to be revealed at their deepest levels. Contact Yoga will appeal to all who seek depth and fulfillment in their relationships. Contact Yoga also features over one hundred striking tri-tone photographs by award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and director Norman Seeff. His vivid images capture candid portraits of renowned yoga teachers such as Patricia Walden, Anna Forest, and Shiva Rae, as well as celebrities in dynamic yoga poses including Cheryl Tiegs, Carrie Otis, Daphne Zuniga, Catherine Oxenberg, Linda Grey, Elizabeth Berkley, Harry Hamlin, and Lisa Rinna.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608870769
Publisher:	Mandala Publishing
Publication date:	05/01/2012
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	8.06(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Tara Lynda Guber has practiced yoga for more than 35 years. Her spiritual journey has included study and work with some of the most respected yoga teachers in the world. In 2001, Tara founded Yoga Ed., an organization dedicated to the development of health and wellness programs that utilize yoga’s physiological, emotional, and educational benefits. Yoga Ed. offers these programs to children, teachers, and parents through schools and communities nationwide. Tara is also a founding member of the board of directors of the Accelerated School, an internationally recognized charter public school in South Central Los Angeles. The mother of four children—Jodi, Elizabeth, Sammy, and Jaxon—and the wife of Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, Tara resides in Los Angeles, California.

Norman Seeff is an award-winning photographer, director, and filmmaker who for over 35 years has defined the look of rock and roll through his dramatic and intensely personal photography and videos. His camera has captured hundreds of public personalities

Table of Contents

Preface Anthony Robbins 8

Foreword Deepak Chopra 10

Indroduction: Tara Lynda Guber. My Journey into Contact 12

Part 1 Contact: Background and Guidelines

1 The Seven Points of Contact 18

2 Points, Postures & Practice 24

3 Points in Practice 30

4 General Guidelines for Approaching Contact 34

5 Creating A Sacred Space 36

Part 2 The Seven Points in Practice

6 The First Point of Contact: Trust 42

7 The Second Point of Contact: Passion 56

8 The Third Point of Contact: Commitment 74

9 The Fourth Point of Contact: Love 90

10 The Fifth Point of Contact: Communication 108

11 The Sixth Point of Contact: Vision 120

12 The Seventh Point of Contact: Union 138

The Contact Yogis 160

Acknowledgments 164