
The Lost Teachings of Yoga
How to Find Happiness, Peace, and Freedom Through Time-tested Wisdom
Author: Georg Feuerstein
Narrator: Georg Feuerstein
Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: 10/17/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, Health & Fitness, Exercise, Yoga, Body, Mind, & Spirit
Synopsis
Now yoga scholar Georg Feuerstein immerses you in The Lost Teachings of Yoga, the first comprehensive audio curriculum about yoga's original spiritual wisdom and practices. A leading scholar and practitioner of yoga in the West for more than 30 years, Feuerstein introduces you to the wonders beyond yoga's postures and breathing techniques, and points the way to the inner strength and mental peace that is yoga's first objective.
Taught by Feuerstein himself, this full 12-session, seven-hour course reveals the true history of yoga, the gifted masters who brought it to the West, its many branches and the rich fruit they yield, yoga's virtues and disciplines that flower into enlightenment, subtle anatomy and the energy of prana or life force, the origins of asanas, and much more.
Georg Feuerstein has said that today in the West, we need yoga more than ever. Not simply because we want to develop strong, flexible bodies, but because yoga's vast spiritual heritage can help us uncover the deeper purpose of life. Discover for yourself yoga's ultimate achievement and your foundation for a more effective daily practice with The Lost Teachings of Yoga.
Highlights:
• India's gift to the world: yoga, its history, purpose, and practice
• The 10 basic principles of all yoga
• Asanas and the split between body and mind
• The seven branches or schools of yoga, from Hatha to Karma
• Kundalini-shakti: the serpent energy Principles of dharma: morality, law, and virtue
• Living the yogic path in a nine-to-five world
• Enlightenment: the aim of all-true yoga
• Chakras: organs of your energetic body
• Brain chemistry and body toxicity: yoga's role
• The seven stages of self-purification in yoga
• Yogis and paranormal powers: the truth
• Patanjali's five principle moral disciplines, and how to practice them
• A full seven-hour curriculum of insights and teachings from yoga's great tradition