Yoga & Ayurveda: Self-Healing and Self-Realization

by David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri)

Overview

Yoga & Ayurveda together form a complete approach for optimal health, vitality and higher awareness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780914955818
Publisher:	Lotus Press WI
Publication date:	07/13/1999
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	5.62(w) x 8.66(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Paul Brion has a passion for storytelling. He believes that audiobooks--our most current form of the oral tradition--are the purest of the interactive and co-creative arts. An autodidact with eclectic interests, he enjoys learning about a wide variety of subjects, as he has an avaricious hunger for knowledge.

Dr. David Frawley is a Vedic teacher and educator who is the author of over thirty books in several Vedic and Yogic fields published worldwide over the past thirty years. He is the founder and director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies, which offers online courses and publications on Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, mantra and meditation, and Vedic astrology. He is involved in important research into ancient Vedic texts and is a well known modern exponent of Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma. He has a rare DLitt in Yoga and is a recipient of the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award, one of India's highest civilian awards for distinguished service of a higher order.

Table of Contents

	Foreword
	Preface
Part 1	Background of Yoga and Ayurveda: Integral Vision of the Universe and the Individual Human Being	1
1.	Yoga and Ayurveda: The Sciences of Self-Realization and Self-Healing	3
2.	Dharma and Tattva: The Universal Philosophy of Yoga and Ayurveda	9
3.	The Three Gunas and Mental Nature	27
4.	The Dance of the Doshas: Ayurvedic Constitution and Yoga	37
5.	The Paths of Yoga	49
Part 2	The Energetics of Yoga and Ayurveda: Secrets of Self-Transformation	65
6.	The Soul and its Different Bodies	67
7.	Prana, Tejas and Ojas: Secrets of Yogic Alchemy	87
8.	Agni Yoga: Harnessing the Inner Fire	105
9.	Secrets of the Five Pranas	119
10.	Kundalini and the Chakras: Awakening the Subtle Body	135
11.	The Nadis: The Channel Systems of Mind and Prana	149
Part 3	The Practices of Yoga and Ayurveda: Techniques of Inner Transformation	165
12.	Yogic and Ayurvedic Diets: Similarities and Differences	167
13.	Preparing Soma: Herbs for the Practice of Yoga	185
14.	Asana: Yoga Postures for Health and Awareness	205
15.	Methods of Pranayama	241
16.	Pratyahara: the Forgotten Limb of Yoga	261
17.	Mantra Purusha: The Person of Sound	273
18.	Meditation and the Mind	283
	Appendices
1.	The Vedic Connection	309
2.	Endnotes	319
3.	Sanskrit Glossary	321
4.	Sanskrit Pronunciation Key	325
5.	Bibliography, English and Sanskrit	326
	Index
	Resources