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Tantra Yoga Secrets
Eighteen Transformational Lessons to Serenity, Radiance and Bliss
Due to be published August 2011
The practice of Tantra Yoga is considered to be the highest and most rapid path to enlightenment. Master teacher
Mukunda Stiles offers 18 lessons in Tantra Yoga, a practice of transformational self-healing in which we can deepen awareness of our bodies,
their energy forces, and the connections to the natural world around us and those we love.
While many movements today describe tantra as a sexual practice promising longer and better orgasms, increased stamina,
and ecstasy, the real Tantra aims to awaken Kundalini, the dormant potential force in the human personality.
The Tantra tradition includes a vast range of practical teachings leading to the expansion of human consciousness
and the liberation of primal energy. By heightening their awareness to this connective energy readers will learn to embrace and develop
a higher level of intimacy, the heart of tantra. Stiles explains this intimate and life changing practice with grace, structure, and
clarity--an easy-to-follow Tantra Yoga workshop in book form.
Tantra Yoga Secrets will empower readers to overcome emotions, gain new knowledge, and live a more fulfilling
spiritual lifestyle.
"Mukunda has added to his deep study of Yoga and Ayurveda, an innovative examination of Tantra. The book provides
an insightful view of this fascinating yet misunderstood topic of how to balance the male and female energies of
Shiva and Shakti within us to achieve swastha (the harmony of health with the inner Self)."
Dr. David Frawley, Pandit Vamadeva Shastri, Author, Inner Tantric Yoga, Mantra Yoga and Primal Sound
"One of the beauties of Tantra is that, ultimately, each individual is in charge of setting a goal, achieving it,
and evaluating that achievement. Tantra is an experimental discipline, and those who follow the path of Tantra must
carefully integrate each experience until experiencing itself is perfected, by uniting the experiencer with the Self.
These lessons provide a system of practices that can, when employed with determination, concentration, and
discernment, open doors into rewarding perceptions of reality."
Robert Svododa, B.A.M.S., Ayurvedic Physician, Author, Aghora, Ayurveda Life Health and Longevity, Prakruti your Ayurvedic Constitution, Ayurveda for Women
"Preserving a deep spiritual lineage as well as appreciating the natural world, Mukunda Stiles offers a practical
guide presenting useful tools to assist the spiritual seeker in achieving a profound transformation rather than
superficial change. Anyone seeking self-awareness will benefit by following the step-by-step asana and meditation
practices from this ancient path. I feel honored to have Mukunda in my life as he teaches on this Earth."
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Kashi Ashram, Founder of Kali Natha Yoga
Structural Yoga Therapy shows how to evaluate
yourself or a client using several methods, a series of joint freeing
exercises which can assess for normal flexibility, asana kinesiology
of 24 foundational poses, musculoskeletal anatomy charts, pranayama
guidelines, how to use Yoga therapeutically with case studies sampling
from 10,000 cases covered since the method was created in 1976.
The book is published by Samuel Weiser, Inc. and is available in
bookstores or from the author. 350 pages.
"Structural Yoga Therapy is the single most comprehensive, authentic and valuable book on Yoga and health available today.
Brilliantly written and easily accessible, it will help you implement a practice uniquely suited to your physical, emotional and spiritual
needs. Mukunda is the finest Yoga therapist that I've ever worked with. Now the wealth of wisdom and experience that he brought to teaching me,
my staff (at Mind Body Medical Institute, Deaconess Hospital, Boston) and our clients is available to you in book form." Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.,
author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and A Woman's Journey to God
"Structural Yoga Therapy is one of the most important guidebooks for the practical use of Yoga postures for health and
healing. It is comprehensive, thorough and practical in its approach, accessible both to the serious practitioner and to the sincere beginner.
Mukunda Stiles has made a great contribution to Yoga therapy, showing how each asana can be used to correct specific structural imbalances and
restore harmony to the body, prana and mind, creating well-being on all levels." Dr. David Frawley, OMD, Vedic scholar and author of Yoga
and Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Healing
"Structural Yoga Therapy is a clear, in-depth, comprehensive discourse on the meaning and precise practice of Classical
Patanjali Yoga. Based on years of personal practice and teaching, Mukunda takes us beyond the confusion of the American Yoga scene where Hatha
Yoga and pranayama are misunderstood for the sublime path to liberation of classical eight limb yoga. He is able to take us from the subtlest
theory to the most detailed application of Structural Yoga. This book is a gem for sincere beginners as well as for the most dedicated
advanced practitioners and teachers." Gabriel Cousens, MD, psychiatry, author of Spiritual Nutrition and Conscious Eating
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
With Great Respect and Love
A devotional approach rendered in poetic phrases,
to the definitive text on Classical Yoga/Meditation with Sanskrit
text. Revised edition published by Weiser Books.
"Those who cannot understand the Sanskrit Yogic aphorisms can understand and grasp the essence
of them through your book." Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar, author of Light on Yoga
"This is the most readable and enjoyable interpreation of the Yoga Sutras I have ever seen."
Gabriel Cousens, MD, author of Conscious Eating
One of the greatest contributions of Ayurveda to true health is the understanding of individual constitution -
what balances one person unbalances another. By marrying the sister sciences of yoga and Ayurveda, Mukunda steers away from an increasing
tendency to 'medicalize' yoga therapy. Instead of offering prescriptive recommendations for specific medical diagnoses, he presents sequences
of Vinyasa and pranayama suited to the various Ayurvedic body types. Yoga therapists and practitioners using this book can access a deeper
level of preventative self-care, flowing in harmony with the seasons and attuning to the rhythm and balance of each individual.
Enlivened by stories and wisdom teachings, "Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy" provides food for body, soul and spirit, guiding
practitioners towards fulfillment of their highest potential well being. 280 pages.
"Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy is one of the most important new books on how these two profound sister sciences can be
integrated in the modern context. The book presents a compelling model of Yoga Therapy that is bound to become much more significant,
as Yoga moves beyond a physical therapy to a complete system of medicine, health and well-being for body, mind an spirit."
Dr David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri), Author, Yoga and Ayurveda
"This long-awaited book has merged the power of yoga and the healing potential of ayurveda into a new science
called Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy. It is a must-read!" Dr John Douillard, Author of Body, Mind and Sport and The 3-Season diet.
"Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy is perhaps the best book ever written on the subtle and gross relationship of Patanjali's
Classical Yoga and Ayurveda. I appreciate the deep insights that Mukunda shares on their interralationship which have come from years
of thoughtful and observant personal experience. The understandings and insights shared in this book are a blessing to the worlds of
yoga and ayurveda." Alakananda Ma
Human love relationships are one of the most fertile grounds for growth and transformation.
Also fraught with difficulty, frustration and pain, they dramatize for us our projections, addictions and wounds.
Yet conscious use of relationships can be a fast track to spiritual and psychological transformation.
In The Marriage of Sex and Spirit, thirty-five of the most provocative and fresh voices of our generation give us
the keys to transforming relationships from a source of grief and bondage to a celebration of self and other.
Drawing together the most powerful wisdom of spiritual teachers, psychiatrists, anthropologists, educators, therapists, coaches, writers,
artists, this groundbreaking anthology presents the visions and ideas that form the gateway to transforming both spirituality and sexuality.
This powerful collection of practical techniques and breakthrough insights offers the potential to utterly transform your experience of
relationships into a source of joy, inspiration and fuel for your spiritual and emotional journey.
Coauthors and Chapter Titles:
Mukunda Stiles: The Nectar of Tantrik Love
Deepak Chopra: Sacred Marriage
John Gray: The Blame Box
Caroline Myss: Leaving the Wounded Relationship Tribe
Wayne Dyer: Four Pathways to Mastery
Leo Buscaglia: Couple Rituals & Traditions
Barbara Marx Hubbard: The Supra Sexual Revolution
Gay Hendricks: The Chemistry of Blame
Thich Nhat Hanh: Embracing Negative Energies
Thomas Moore: Shadow of the Soul
Joint Freeing Series DVD - produced by Holly
Minor of Children's Hospital of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A great
foundation series for promoting flexibility, strengthening the immune
system to diminish pain, with adaptations for those of all abilities.
This 30 minute DVD shows Mukunda doing the practice from the SYT book,
a 10 year old in a hospital bed and a 70 year old in a wheel chair.
It is especially recommended for medical oriented yoga therapy programs
and hospital placement in wards where gentle effective yoga exercise
can be provided to patients.
The following items are only sold at workshop training sessions conducted by Mukunda and Chinnamasta.
NEW EDITION
Asana
- Theory, Practice and Teaching
Textbook created for American Yoga
College and Structural Yoga teacher training courses. Covers 24
foundational yogasanas and Sun Salutation. 2006, Coil binding, $35.
Yoga Therapy for Knees &
Shoulders
Newly Revised - Yoga Therapy for Knees and Shoulders
by Mukunda plus articles on arthritis by other authors, $5
Survey of Yoga Therapy –
Research & YTC Case Studies
Transcript of paper delivered to Mind Body Medical
Institute (affiliated with Harvard Medical School), Boston with
a summary of international research and an overview of 10,000 cases
done at the Yoga Therapy Center. 40 pages - $15
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali With Great Respect and Love
Hardback English language edition
Hardbound Indian edition published by the Ayurveda
Teaching Hospital in Poona, 145 pages, 1999, $19.95. To order contact
the publisher at avilele@hotmail.com.
The Yoga Poet
Topics include - On Yoga, Poems to Mukunda, To
Tantrik Devi, For The Beloved, Just Living Life, Musings, Glossary,
100 pages. $15. Read more
Classical
Yoga Asana Glossary
Sketches of 64 classical poses sourced in hatha
Yoga texts. 1986, GBC binding, 18 pages, $15
Goniometer
Physical Therapy tool for measuring precise
range of motion (ROM) to determine joint flexibility to compare
with normal ROM standards as cited in Structural Yoga Therapy -
12" model
Tool for measuring spinal curvature as a screening
for scoliosis. Curvatures obvious in standing or from x-rays
will be changed during forward bending. The degrees of change
can be monitored as shown in Structural Yoga Therapy - $50
(TO ORDER contact National Scoliosis Foundation - www.scoliosis.org)
