The Yoga Sutra is the living source wisdom of the yoga tradition, still relevant 2,200 years after it was codified by the sage Patanjali. This is the first practitioner-oriented commentary of the Yoga Sutra fully grounded in a living lineage. It shares the essence of Pandit Tigunait's rigorous scholarly understanding of the Yoga Sutra, through the filter of experiential knowledge gained through decades of advanced yogic practices, and enriched by the living wisdom he received from the masters of the Himalayan Tradition.

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This is the second (after Samadhi Pada, covering the first chapter) in a series of commentaries on the Yoga Sutra—combining Pandit Tigunait’s rigorous scholarly understanding of yoga philosophy with the knowledge he has gained through decades of advanced yoga practice. He demonstrates how Patanjali’s systematic 8-part plan for mastering the roaming tendencies of the mind - offered to beginners and newcomers to practice - opens the door to a more vibrant experience of our Self and our true nature.

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This book journeys to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices. Since the West's discovery of Tantra 100 years ago, there has been considerable fascination, speculation, and more than a little misinformation about this spiritual movement. Tantra Illuminated presents an accessible introduction to this sacred tradition that began 1,500 years ago in the far north of India. Translated from primary Sanskrit sources by Tantrik scholar-practitioner Christopher Wallis.

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More and more people are “waking up” spiritually. And for most of them, the question becomes: now what? “Information about life after awakening is usually not made public,” explains American spiritual teacher Adyashanti. “It's most often shared only between teachers and their students.” The End of Your World is his response to a growing need for direction on the spiritual path.

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Millions around the world suffer from mood problems and stress-related issues like anxiety, depression, insomnia and PTSD. Far too many of them are taking medications that have troublesome side effects, withdrawal symptoms and disappointing success rates. Here, physicians Dr. Richard P. Brown and Dr. Patricia L. Gerbarg provide present a drug-free, side effect-free solution - breathing - to common stress and mood problems, based on teachings drawn from yoga, Buddhism, qigong and other sources.

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The Physiology of Yoga separates speculation from fact by examining how the body responds and adapts to yoga within its many systems: musculoskeletal, nervous, respiratory, cardiovascular, lymphatic, immune, endocrine, reproductive and digestive. Straightforward explanations guide you in sorting through conflicting information about what yoga really can help you achieve - at a physiological level - and in evaluating whether certain yoga methods provide benefits to any or all of those systems.

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Despite yoga's huge global popularity, relatively little of its roots is known among practitioners. This book draws on a wide range of texts, among others, key passages from the early Upanishads, and from the Tantric, Buddhist and Jaina traditions, with many pieces in scholarly translation for the first time. it covers yoga's varying definitions, its most important practices, such as posture, breath control, sensory withdrawal and meditation, as well as models of the esoteric and physical bodies.

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Bernie Clark presents comprehensive guidance on how to do the practice, including a deep look inside over two dozen Yin Yoga postures, showing the benefit of the pose and their targeted areas, how to get into and out of it and contraindications. The benefits are explored in three main sections: the physiological benefits, the energetic benefits and the mental/emotional benefits.

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Expanding upon the teachings of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, one of the core scriptural texts of the yoga tradition, internationally renowned teacher Donna Farhi describes yoga's transforming power as a complete life practice, far beyond its common reduction to mere exercise routine or stress management. This is the philosophy of yoga as a path to a deeper awareness of self.

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First published in 1997, this has been on the NY Times Bestsellers List for over a decade. Everything we do is based on agreements we have made - agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God/god and with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. Don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create suffering. And, based on ancient Toltec wisdom, offers a powerful code of conduct that has the potential to transform our lives.

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In the Upanishads, among the world’s most ancient scriptures, illumined sages of ancient India shared flashes of insight, the results of their investigations into consciousness itself. They experienced directly a transcendent Reality which is the essence, or Self, of each being - eternal, deathless, one with the power that created the universe. Easwaran’s translation compiles sections from the principal Upanishads and five others. “The Upanishads belong not just to Hinduism. They are India’s most precious legacy to humanity, and in that spirit they are offered here.”

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This is the acclaimed life story of Paramahansa Yogananda, who introduced millions around the world to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga in the first half of the 20th century. With wit and candour, he narrates the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages during his search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America.

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This book brings together the science and the practice of yoga therapy, supporting the emergence of yoga therapy as a credible profession. It comprehensively summarises research findings and their practical implications for professionals who use yoga or refer patients for yoga practice. It includes chapter contributions by leading biomedical researchers of yoga as well as contributions by expert yoga therapists describing practical implementation issues relevant to yoga for specific conditions.

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The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. In this important book one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.

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Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s disease? Is there such a thing as a ‘cancer personality’? Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Maté’s acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body link – and the role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

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Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on an unstoppable rise. Medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today's culture stresses our bodies and undermines emotional balance. With over four decades of clinical experience, Dr Maté connects the dots between our personal suffering and the pressures of modern-day living, with disease as a natural reflection of a life spent growing further and further apart from our true selves. But he also shows us a pathway to health and healing.

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Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This profound book has provided millions with an answer. Too many had to learn as children to hide their own feelings, needs and memories skilfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their ‘love.’ Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word 'gifted', I had in mind neither children who receive high grades nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt by becoming numb.... Without this 'gift' offered us by nature, we would not have survived."

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Depression. Anxiety. Chronic pain. Phobias. The evidence is compelling: the root of these difficulties may reside in the traumas of our parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents. The latest research affirms that traumatic experience is passed on to future generations and that this emotional inheritance, hidden in everything from our gene expression to everyday language, plays a greater role in our health than ever previously understood. Mark Wolynn has developed a pioneering approach to identifying and breaking these inherited family patterns.

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Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Leading trauma expert Dr Peter Levine normalizes the symptoms of trauma and discusses the steps needed to heal them.

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Drawing on the latest research from both scientific research and healing modalities, The Holistic Psychologist (on Instagram) Dr LePera helps us recognise how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood live with us, keeping us stuck engaging in patterns of codependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. Unless addressed, these self-sabotaging behaviours can quickly become cyclical, leaving people feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, and unwell. In How to Do the Work, she offers readers the support and tools that will allow them to break free from destructive behaviours to reclaim and recreate their lives.

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Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often 'lose it' in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but wonder if it's worth the struggle? Are you consumed at times by depression? Coming home to your true self may help. We first see the world though the eyes of the little child we once were, and that 'inner child' remains with us, no matter how 'grown-up' we become. If our vulnerable child was hurt, that child's pain, grief and anger live on within us. In this powerful book John Bradshaw shows us how we can offer ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for.

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Is there some part of yourself you wish would go away? Most of us would say yes, whether we call it addiction, the inner critic or ‘monkey mind.’ Yet what if there were a different way to approach these aspects of ourselves? Dr. Richard Schwartz created Internal Family Systems, a paradigm-changing model of consciousness that is transforming psychology. He teaches a revolutionary paradigm to understand and relate with ourselves that brings us into inner harmony and opens doors to spiritual awakening.

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First-hand essays of embodied healing from the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at Justice Resource Institute: challenges, triumphs and healing strategies from the front line of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga. Written by yoga facilitators, survivors and therapists, the first-hand accounts in healing with Trauma-Sensitive Yoga examine real-life situations and provide guidance on how to act, react and respond to trauma on the mat.

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Survivors of trauma—whether abuse, accidents, or war—can end up profoundly wounded, betrayed by their bodies that failed to get them to safety and that are a source of pain. In order to fully heal from trauma, a connection must be made with oneself, including one’s body. The trauma-sensitive yoga described in this book moves beyond traditional talk therapies that focus on the mind, by bringing the body actively into the healing process.

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When interpersonal trauma, whether chronic childhood abuse or domestic violence, talk therapy isn’t always the most effective course. The trauma and its effects are so entrenched, so complex, that reducing the person’s experience to symptoms or suggesting a change in cognitive frame or behaviour ignores a very basic but critical player: the body. Reorienting clients to their bodies and building their ‘body sense’ can be the key to unlocking their pain and building a path toward healing.

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A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, offers a fascinating history of psychedelics, a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists studying their implications, and describes his own life-changing psychedelic experiences.

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The first book of a two-volume set, The Way of the Psychonaut, Volume 1 is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD―the microscope and telescope of the human psyche―as well as other psychedelic substances. One of the fathers of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy unveils a new paradigm in self-exploration and healing.

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Without adequate preparation and counseling during and after their use, much of the transformative potential of psychedelic experiences is lost. Having combined psychotherapy with 35 years of fieldwork among the Mazatec people of Mexico, who use psychedelics as medicine, Françoise Bourzat provides a therapeutic framework for people using psychedelics and other transformational processes.

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One of the world’s most respected authorities on psychedelics and their use, James Fadiman has been involved with psychedelic research since the 1960s. In this guide to the immediate and long-term effects of psychedelic use for spiritual (high dose), therapeutic (moderate dose), and problem-solving (low dose) purposes, he outlines best practices for safe, sacred entheogenic voyages learned through his more than 40 years of experience.

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In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes, everything - from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers - was transformed. This is his vivid account, recalling insights experienced, which ranged from the ‘purely aesthetic’ to ‘sacramental vision’, as well as later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.

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Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into the hidden kingdom of fungi - key to understanding the planet on which we live and the ways we think, feel and behave.

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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis celebrates the wisdom of the world’s indigenous cultures, from Australia to Africa to the Andes. Understanding these lessons of what he learns will be our mission for the next century. For at risk of dying out is the human legacy - a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalog of the imagination.

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In this unique book, the authors - who were psychedelic researchers at Harvard in the Sixties - provide an interpretation of an ancient sacred manuscript, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, from a psychedelic perspective, describing their discoveries in broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan mediation techniques and psychotropic substances.

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