// 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
