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Nischala Joy Devi was trained in conventional medicine [1] and is an international advocate for Yoga and its subtle uses for spiritual growth as well as physical and mental healing. She was a monastic disciple of Swami Satchidananda , creator of Integral Yoga , for over 20 years. [ 2 ]
Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj (24 January 1935 – 28 March 1994) was a yogi who reportedly attained self-realization through twelve years of arduous tapas, meditating in samādhi (a state of total absorption) for an average of twenty hours a day.
Stephen Levine (July 17, 1937 – January 17, 2016) was an American poet, author and teacher best known for his work on death and dying. He is one of a generation of pioneering teachers who, along with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg, have made the teachings of Theravada Buddhism more widely available to students in the West.
In 1968, Ramlal Siyag developed an unknown fear of death. On the recommendation of a friend, he chanted the Gayatri mantra 125,000 [4] times along with the fire sacrifice , starting from the Navratri that comes in the month of October in the year 1968. After completing the chants, in deep meditation he realized that his body had transformed ...
Yoga for Health, Ballantine Books, March 12, 1985; Richard Hittleman's Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan, Workman Publishing, 1969 (Bantam, 1983 ISBN 978-0-553-27748-7) Guide for the Seeker, Bantam Books, 1978 ISBN 978-0-553-11171-2; Richard Hittleman's Guide to Yoga Meditation, Bantam Books, 1969; Yoga Philosophy and Meditation, 1964; Yoga at Home, 1962
Yoga and meditation were once seen by Americans "as weird and culty," Nicole Daedone tells Reason. "Any new, profoundly healing protocol is seen as dark." "Any new, profoundly healing protocol is ...
Bardo yoga deals with navigating the bardo state in between death and rebirth. It is one of the Six Dharmas of Naropa ( Wylie : na ro'i chos drug , Skt . ṣaḍdharma , "Naro's six doctrines" or "six teachings"), a set of advanced Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices compiled by the Indian mahasiddhas Tilopa and Nāropa (1016-1100 CE) and passed ...
Vishnudevananda arrived in San Francisco in December 1957, and began to teach yoga; he moved to New York to teach hatha yoga in 1958. [2] The practice he taught, which he named Sivananda Yoga after his guru, consisted largely of asanas, yoga postures, but rather than emphasising yoga as exercise, he taught a combination of yoga philosophy, the shatkarmas or purifications, the sattvic diet, and ...