Spiritual Yoga : Awakening to Higher Awareness

Many thousands of Yoga practitioners yearn to explore the spiritual dimensions of the poses they practise every week. SPIRITUAL YOGA fills a gap left by most modern Yoga manuals, which tell everything about bodily alignment and physical benefits, but leave out Yoga's higher dimensions: subtle energy control, meditation and inner enlightenment.   In this book, Nayaswami Gyandev McCord shares these spiritual teachings as originally taught by the great Yoga master, Paramhansa Yogananda (author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi) and Yogananda's direct disciple (and Nayaswami Gyandev's teacher), Swami Kriyananda. These teachings include: the mind-energy-body connection; the art of meditation; dozens of techniques for spiritualising one's Yoga postures practice; spiritual Yoga routines; affirmations and energy control suggestions for standing, seated, relaxation and inverted postures; mastering pranayama (energy control), and breathing exercises for specific results (greater energy, calmness, concentration etc.) and Yoga as a way of life.