About this item:

// Size: 548 pages
// Publisher: AYP Publishing December 2004
// Language: English
// Available in PDF eBook and Paperback.

A large user-friendly textbook providing 240 detailed lessons covering the full scope of the AYP self-directed system of yoga practices. This comprehensive text includes substantial additional material beyond the online lessons, enabling the serious practitioner to successfully navigate the journey to enlightenment.

FROM THE BACK COVER

The premise of Yoga is simple. There is an outer reality and an inner one, and our nervous system is the doorway between them. Effective Yoga practices stimulate and open that doorway. The result? Peace, creativity, happiness, and a steady rise of ecstatic bliss radiating from within us...

Advanced Yoga Practices AYP brings together the most effective methods of Yoga in a flexible integrated system that anyone can use. Instructions are given in plain English for deep meditation, spinal breathing pranayama, bodily manipulations asanas, mudras and bandhas, tantric sexual practices, and other methods that are systematically applied to swing open the door of our nervous system to permanent higher experience. This is a non-sectarian approach that is compatible with any belief system or religious background.

There are over 240 easy-to-follow lessons here, including many hands-on questions and answers between Yoga practitioners and the author. Whether you are a beginner or a veteran in Yoga, the AYP lessons can serve as a useful resource as you travel along your chosen path.

Extensive reader feedback is provided in the book. Here are a few excerpts:

"I searched for years to find a method of meditation that I can do. This is do-able." - AN
"I've learned more about yoga in 4 months than in the previous 30 years of study." - SL
"This is a very valuable inspiration for people taking up and maintaining meditation." - DB
"Spinal breathing pranayama makes me feel so ecstatic, I want to do it all the time." - YM
"After my first meditation session, I never felt so relaxed. You made me a believer." - JF
"You make everything seem so simple, yet the practices are profound and dynamic." - SS
"I wish I had this kind of information when I started some 15 years back." - AD
"I love the way you explain everything. So simple, logical, and so safe." - RY
"These are the best lessons I have read on yoga anywhere." - RD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Summary of Additions and Illustrations

The Main Lessons
     1-9 - Not Used
     Lesson 10 - Why This Discussion?
     Lesson 11 - What is Yoga? What is Religion?
     Lesson 12 - The Essential Ingredient - Desire
     Lesson 13 - Meditation - Awakening the Silent Seed
     Lesson 14 - Not Much Happening in Meditation
     Lesson 15 - Restlessness in Meditation
     Lesson 16 - Bliss in Meditation
     Lesson 17 - Was I Asleep in Meditation?
     Lesson 18 - Finding the Time for Meditation
     Lesson 19 - What Tradition to follow?
     Lesson 20 - Enlightenment without God?
     Lesson 21 - Objects of Meditation
     Lesson 22 - Vibratory Quality of Mantra
     Lesson 23 - Watching the Clock in Meditation
     Lesson 24 - Does Meditation Cure Sickness?
     Lesson 25 - Effect of Meditation on High Stress Situations
     26 - Not Used
     Lesson 27 - Location of Mantra in Meditation
     Lesson 28 - Will I become a Milquetoast from Meditation
     Lesson 29 - Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs
     Lesson 30 - Diet and Meditation
     Lesson 31 - Enjoying the Great Outdoors
     32 - Not Used
     Lesson 33 - A New Way to Sit in Meditation
     Lesson 34 - Meditation and World Problems
     Lesson 35 - Enlightenment Milestones
     Lesson 36 - Meditation and the Fifth Dimension
     Lesson 37 - Group Meditations
     Lesson 38 - What is Your Time Line?
     Lesson 39 - Pranayama - Cultivating the Soil of the Nervous System
     40 - Not Used
     Lesson 41 - Spinal Breathing Pranayama
     Lesson 42 - Is this Pranayama Natural?
     Lesson 43 - Relationship of Pranayama to Meditation
     Lesson 44 - Finding the Spinal Nerve
     Lesson 45 - Breathing is Slowing Down in Pranayama
     Lesson 46 - Which Way is Up in Spinal Breathing?
     Lesson 47 - Chakras?
     Lesson 48 - Pranayama and Health
     Lesson 49 - Perspiration in Pranayama
     Lesson 50 - Managing the Time in Pranayama
     Lesson 51 - Strange Gurglings in Pranayama
     Lesson 52 - Big Little Nerve
     Lesson 53 - Light and Sound in Pranayama
     Lesson 54 - Kundalini - A Code Word for Sex
     Lesson 55 - Mulabandha - Enlivening Sexual Energy Upward
     Lesson 56 - Sambhavi - Opening the Third Eye
     Lesson 57 - The Guru is in Me?
     Lesson 58 - Step by Step
     Lesson 59 - Some Mantra Particulars
     Lesson 60 - Unexpected Interruptions
     61 - Not Used
     Lesson 62 - Duration of One Spinal Breathing Cycle?
     Lesson 63 - Cool and Warm Currents in Pranayama
     Lesson 64 - The Ecstatic Silver Thread
     Lesson 65 - The Pineal and Pituitary Glands
     Lesson 66 - We are Arriving, Not Leaving
     Lesson 67 - Bhakti - The Science of Devotion
     Lesson 68 - Relationship of Traumatic Experiences and Bhakti
     Lesson 69 - Kundalini Symptoms, Imbalances and Remedies
     70 - Not Used
     Lesson 71 - Yoga Asanas - A Wonderful Billion Dollar Industry
     Lesson 72 - Please Tell Me Exactly What To Do
     Lesson 73 - More on Chakras
     Lesson 74 - For This Life, and the Next One
     Lesson 75 - Siddhasana - Living in a Fountain of Ecstasy
     Lesson 76 - Siddhis - Are Powers Real?
     Lesson 77 - Still More on Chakras
     Lesson 78 - Pleasure and the Path
     Lesson 79 - Mantra Reminders 117
     Lesson 80 - Physical Fitness and Yoga
     Lesson 81 - Charging Ahead Too Fast?
     82 - Omitted
     Lesson 83 - There She Goes - Kundalini, that is
     Lesson 84 - The Art of Doing Nothing
     Le