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Deva Premal & Miten Band,
Kulreet Chaudhary • Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind
sadhana, your spiritual practice.
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Khotanese monk’s name was Shikshananda,
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
Check out the YouTube videos of Ayya Tathaaloka, as that's the good stuff.
Daniel Ingram • Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book
Working to perfect Mūlabandha is key to enhancing an āsana practice (and to beginning and deepening your prāṇāyāma and meditation practices), because all poses ground through the seed-point of Mūlabandha and, on a more external level, the pelvic floor.
Mary Taylor • The Art of Vinyasa: Awakening Body and Mind through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga
(It can be particularly helpful to feel the quality of strength filling the lower belly and the legs.)
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual se
... See moreSwami Shankarananda • Consciousness Is Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism
we must beware, because an excellent, profound, living tradition of yoga can still be worn by an idiot as a decoration for his or her ego, while a sincere, open-minded, inquisitive student of a fractured lineage can breathe new life and insight into that tradition for everyone’s benefit.