Advanced Yoga Practices Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living
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
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars No other Yoga book comes close
Simply put - this is the most comprehensive and easy-to-understand text on Yoga I’ve found yet. Everything is explained in both esoteric/spiritual and exoteric/anatomy-based manners. The chapters are arranged to lead the reader through their own practice, adding new techniques as one progresses. Yogani has clearly spent many years learning and practicing many style of yoga. Now he has compiled the best into one complete text.
Unfortuntaly his mini-book don’t have the same power as this original AYP book.
5 Stars The Real Deal
When I first read the reviews for Advanced Yoga Practices, I worried that they may have been faked since they were so glowing. I decided to buy the book anyway. It was a pleasure to discover that the book is even better than the reviews. Unlike much of the yogic/spiritual tradition that shrouds advanced techniques in secret, Yogani spells out yogic meditation practices from the basic to advanced, giving complete, easy to understand instructions. At the same time, he reminds readers that they must take responsibility for their own spiritual progress with respect to the advanced practices. To apply those methods before having the proper level of understanding and training can create problems. I suppose an analogy would be that you wouldn’t ask 16-year old to drive a race car 200+ miles per hour when they are first learning to drive. That is a recipe for disaster. Rather you idle slowly about a parking lot or side road until you get the hang of driving a car. Similarly, Yogani introduces the basic meditation and breathing (pranayama) practices and gradually introduces more advanced techniques.
Since the lessons first originated with some website lessons, there are lots of questions and answers from seekers who have written him, and he gives very practical advice, and always reminds people to self-pace with respect to how deeply they delve into the more advanced practices. It is a very refreshing approach.
I have a large library of spiritual books, many of which did not deliver as much as I had hoped. That said, I would whole-hearted recommend Yogani’s Advanced Yoga Practices to anyone who is very serious in their pursuit of meditation and advanced level practices.
P.S. May I add, that although I have purchased a ton of books from Amazon, especially in the spiritual genre, I have never written a review of a book. This book was so good, I felt compelled to write a review. I send my most sincere thanks to Yogani!
5 Stars You owe it to yourself
After reading these fine reviews I have nothing more to add other then to encourage you to join us on this marvelous spiritual adventure. We now have the tools to complete the journey, only the will remains. Thank you Yogani. Namaste
5 Stars The Guru is in YOU!
Put your ego aside and follow this Path to self-fullment. Clear, concise and practical ancient methods of clearing out all of your past emotional and karmic baggage. For the beleivers in traditional Christianity, you will be surprised at the relationship between Jesus Christ and ancient Yoga. Remember Yoga is not an religion but in a nutshell it is basically the science of the human nervous system and the refining and purifying of that system. Yoga complements and enlightens all Beleifs and Yogani brings it to you in clear and easy to follow instructions. The most complete single book on escatic Yoga available….
5 Stars Comprehensive yoga manual, cream of the cream
These advanced yoga practices are a great treasure.
The lessons aim to make the practitioner fully responsible for the basic tools of spiritual development.
This manual is for absolute beginners as well as veteran yogic practitioners.
Basic instructions in deep meditation, spinal breathing pranayama, samyama, asana(postures),light excercise, self-pacing and balanced managing of techniques, tantra and much more than can possibly be mentioned.
Included are many question and answer dialogues which bring more clarity to the lessons and temper this system of practices with the context of our modern everyday life.
These advanced yoga practices are meant to be integrated into your everyday life, but not necessarily the center of your life. You practice the simple techniques for a short duration everday and then get up and be active in life in whichever way that you choose.