Yoga Buddhism

Spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer explores the question of human identity and shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and achieve happiness and self-realization.

Dr. Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been transforming psychology for decades. With No Bad Parts, you’ll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, and depression treatment - and how this new understanding of consciousness has the potential to radically change our lives.

For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently - and far less seriously - than its male counterpart. That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.

It is said that the practice of dream yoga deepens our awareness during all our experience: the dreams of the night; the dream-like experience of the day; and the bardo experiences after death. Indeed, the practice of dream yoga is a powerful tool of awakening, used for hundreds of years by the great masters of the Tibetan traditions. Unlike in the Western psychological approach to dreams, the ultimate goal of Tibetan dream yoga is the recognition of the nature of mind or enlightenment itself.

With the simple teachings and cutting-edge research offered in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath, you can start thriving just by integrating breathwork into your daily practice.Basic Yantra Yoga techniques - also called wind energy training - are the key to achieving this kind of vitality, down to the cellular level. Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo skillfully examine the teachings of Yantra Yoga and Buddhism through the lens of Western medical science.

Do you want more calm, peace and mindfulness in your daily life? Read these 365 daily reflections, meditations & scriptures! In “365 Buddhist Quotes,” you will find Buddhist teachings for busy people. Every day, find a new quote to meditate on from the Buddha, the Dalai Llama, and other famous leaders in Buddhism and Buddhist teachings. This Buddhism book makes a great companion to “Buddhism for Beginners” by Gabriel Shaw. Check out that text as well to read an introduction to Buddhism. ☆☆“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the ...

In the classic best seller, Introduction to Tantra, Lama Yeshe offered a profound and wonderfully clear glimpse into the sophisticated practices of Tibetan Buddhist tantra. This present book, the last major teachings of this great lama, opens up the world of advanced practices for Highest Yoga Tantra initiates in much the same way his earlier work opened up the world of tantra in general. Lama's own realization of the transformative power of these practices comes through, inspiring his students to discover for themselves their own capacity for inexhaustible bliss.

The Sacred Geometry of Meditation Geometry focuses on understanding the tangible. Meditation focuses on understanding the intangible. The benefits of understanding the outside world are stupendous, and the benefits of understanding the inside world are limitless. The Geometry of Energy How to Meditate includes numerous meditation instructions and concepts, but focuses on meditation comprehension. The more one comprehends meditation the more one potentially benefits. The Geometry of Energy explores meditation and subtle energy through the four dimensions of geometry. 1.Points 2.Lines 3....

Zen Master Dogen wrote the Fukanzazengi (Principles of Seated Meditation) in 1227 upon his return to Japan from China. More than just a treatise on the merits of meditation, the Fukanzazengi invites us to go deeper into our own meditation practice and experience the same depth of realization as the great Zen masters of the past. This commentary on this classic 13th century text attempts to make more accessible what Master Dogen calls the “inexpressible heart” of Zen.

Some of the greatest of life’s adventures can happen while you’re sound asleep. That’s the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you’re dreaming while you’re in the midst of a dream. There is a range of techniques anyone can learn to become a lucid dreamer - and this audiobook provides all the instruction you need to get started.

The three short treatises translated herein on the subject of the famous Six yogas of Naropa (Naro'i Chos Drug) are compositions by authors representing sub-schools of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. The first is a translation of the Instructions (gdams) portion of in the hagiography (rnam thar) or literally Life and Liberation Narrative of Naropa entitled Mhas grub mynam-med dpal-ldan Na-ro-pa'i rnam-par thar=pa dri-med legs-bsad bde-chen 'brug-sgra which may be rendered "The well-narrated immaculate biography of the peerless sage Naropa or the voice of thunder of the Great Bliss. ...

Praised Yoga teacher & coach, Rishi Eric Infanti presents a fourth work in his inter-web of publications, "Mindfulness & Yin Yoga: Embracing the Yin Path". This body of work casts your relationship to self and others through the understanding and practice of Yin Yoga & mindfulness and what they intersect beneath the veil of illusion — in a vivid and impressive new light. Rishi embarks upon an extraordinary new volume. "Mindfulness & Yin Yoga" provides a deeply practical prescription for heightening your gifts, tranquility and sense of inner calm. Infanti’s previous trilogy of guided ...

Having explored many paths and practices , I came to the realisation that spirituality is a path of grace . To dissolve the ego , surrendering to the divine mother principle or kundalini Shakti and allowing it to take the charge of your spiritual path is a divine journey of ultimate flowering . Having walked this path with seekers guiding them through meditation and shaktipat and learning from them every single moment has been a beautiful journey of mutual love and self discovery . This book is an effort to emphasise that transcendental path of Buddhism and vedanta and the path of surrender...

The 9 Spheres teachings comprise a view of reality without human interpretative distortions. These teachings are as close to ultimate truth, in visual and verbal form, that I have ever encountered and could ever even imagine. The 9 Spheres are teachings on Dzogchen view, articulating an understanding of reality that transcends duality and beingness. Over the past several years, Traktung Rinpoche (AKA t.k.) has taught on the 9 Spheres. This book is one disciple's summary of these teachings so that some essence of those sublime Dharma teachings might be available to those who may benefit from...

Yoga Nidra is considered to be the state in which the Gods reside. This is because the goal of Yoga Nidra is to attain complete relaxation while maintaining consciousness. The ability to do this allows for our deepest levels of creativity and healing energies to come to the surface. One session of Yoga Nidra is equal to approximately 3 hours of sleep in its ability to rejuvenate.

Learn How to Use Mindfulness in Everyday Life Mindfulness meditation will help you to remain calm and in the present moment. You will learn to live in this moment. You do not have control over your past or your future. Mindfulness meditation teaches you the importance of what you are doing now and space through which you are moving at each moment. Bottom line: mindfulness is the practice of focusing all your attention on the present moment purposefully and accepting it resolutely without judgment. It’s a perfect place to begin if you are looking for true peace and happiness. All of this ...

The power of the breath has been recognized for millennia as an integral part of health and well-being. In Awakening the Sacred Body, teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche makes accessible the ancient art of Tibetan breath and movement practices. In clear, easy-to-understand language, he outlines the theory and processes of two powerful meditations - the Nine Breathings of Purification and the Tsa Lung movements - that can help you change your relationship to yourself, to others, and to the world.

In this manual, you can learn the history, the philosophy, the schools of thought, the principles, the meditation, the yoga and the benefits that led that common mortal to have a more acute, open and pure thought towards the world around us, of his own inner world and in the relationship with others, and apply it yourself in everyday life. By learning these principles, you will be able to manage in the best way what happens to you and be able to reach, with constancy, that serenity that is so lacking in today's society.

Spiritual disciplines often seem remote from the realities of our daily lives. Yet there is a Mahayana Scripture which presents a model of enlightened practice in the midst of urban living, the Vimalakirti Sutra. This teaches a non-dualistic wisdom and reconciliation of dichotomies. It challenges ordinariness and reveals systematic and effective ways of tapping higher potentials while upholding one's usual responsibilities and enriching long-term relationships.

Jacoby Ballard provides an empowering and affirming guide to embodied healing through yoga and the dharma, grounded in the brilliance, resilience, and lived experiences of queer folks.