Diet, Shatkarmas and Amaroli
Yogic Nutrition & Cleansing for Health and Spirit
Written and Read by Yogani
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AYP Publishing (July 2007) - ISBN 9780978649661
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Description, Table of Contents, and Amazon Reviews (Average -)

"Diet, Shatkarmas and Amaroli" provides diet guidelines and practices for cleansing and optimizing the functioning of the inner neurobiology. This is more than a diet book. It is an integrated set of instructions on yogic nutrition, hygiene and rejuvenation, aiding and facilitating the process of human spiritual transformation.

The human body is the doorway between our outer world and a boundless inner realm of peace, love and creative energy. When the doorway has been opened through balanced spiritual practices - health, productivity and happiness in daily life are the natural result.

Yogani is the author of two landmark books on the world's most effective spiritual practices: "Advanced Yoga Practices - Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living," a comprehensive user-friendly textbook, and "The Secrets of Wilder," a powerful spiritual novel.

The "AYP Enlightenment Series" makes these profound practices available for the first time in a series of concise instruction books. "Diet, Shatkarmas and Amaroli" is the sixth book in the series, preceded by "Samyama," "Asanas, Mudras and Bandhas," "Tantra," "Spinal Breathing Pranayama," and "Deep Meditation." 
 

Contents - Audio Track List

01 - INTRODUCTION

02 - Chap 1 - YOU ARE THE CITY OF GOD
03                   - A Branch of Yoga called "Purity" (Hear Tracks Now)
04                   - Nine Gates of the Body
05                   - The Call from Within

06 - Chap 2 - YOGIC DIET
07                   - Are We What We Eat?
08                   - Diet and Health
09                        - Weight Loss
10                        - Overcoming Hunger
11                        - The Road to Cardiovascular Health
12                        - Must We Become Vegetarians?
13                        - Vitamins, Herbs and Supplements
14                   - Diet, Spiritual Development and Kundalini
15                        - Diet and the Neurobiology of Kundalini
16                   - Food Preparation and Consumption
17                   - Eating Habits, Addiction and Flights of Fancy
18                        - Inner Silence and Eating Habits
19                        - Addictions
20                        - Flights of Fancy
21                        - Halluncinogenics and Yoga
22                   - Fasting
23                   - The Body-Mind-Spirit Connection

24 - Chap 3 - SHATKARMAS FOR CLEANSING
25                   - Bodily Purification and Enlightenment
26                   - Cleansing of Mouth, Nasal Passages and Sinuses
27                        - Mouth and Tongue
28                        - Nasal Passages and Sinuses - Neti Pot
29                        - Nasal Passages and Sinuses - Water Bowl
30                   - Colon Cleansing
31                   - Intestinal Wash
32                   - More Shatkarmas
33                        - Nauli
34                        - Kapalbhati
35                        - Trataka

36 - Chap 4 - AMAROLI - INNER REJUVENATION
37                   - How to do Amaroli - Urine Therapy
38                   - Enhancing the Subtle Biology for Inner Silence
39                   - Additional Aspects of Amaroli
40                        - Amaroli with Fasting
41                        - Urine Compresses for Wounds and Skin Ailments
42                        - Using Urine with Nasal Wash
43                        - Amaroli and Natural Vajroli

44 - Chap 5 - PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
45                   - The Ecstatic Body
46                   - Self-Pacing in Practices
47                   - Stillness in Action

48 - Appendix - AYURVEDA DIET GUIDELINES
49                   - The Six Tastes and Balancing the Doshas

50 - FURTHER READING AND SUPPORT

Amazon Reviews (as of 10/2007)
Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
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Perfect book on Yogic Nutrition, Cleansing & Rejuvenation, August 27, 2007
By Shanti (USA)

Once on the spiritual path, you will get a calling from within to watch what foods you put into your body and how you keep your body clean and healthy. This, namely saucha or purity, as Yogani explains in his book, belongs to the Niyama limb, one of the eight limbs of yoga from the sutras of Patanjali. Yogani has done an excellent job in covering various factors of diet, and explains why most "fad diets" fail. The concept that one diet plan will fit all is not practical and it is important to listen to your body when you decide to improve your diet. He covers what kinds of foods to eat, how much to eat, and ways to cook food. He explains the foods that help balance the Ayurveda doshas - vata, pitta, kapha. He also covers fasting, addictions, drugs and yoga, and talks about the relation between kundalini (specifically the inner processes of soma, amrita and ojas), digestion and diet .

In Shatkarmas he covers cleansing techniques for mouth, nasal passages and sinuses (various forms of "neti"), colon ("bhasti"), intestinal wash ("dhauti"), nauli ("churning" of the abdominal muscles), kapalbhati ("shining face" technique) and trataka ("steady gazing").

This book also covers detailed instructions for Amaroli (urine therapy) and explains the many applications and benefits this practice has in health and spirituality.

He finally puts all of the techniques together and describes how all of this, when done along with meditation and pranayama, will help us progress on our spiritual path, increasing our inner silence, happiness and creativity in all we do in life.

This book helped me understand how to listen to my body for cues on what kind of foods I should eat to pacify the various dosha flare ups that I seem to go through on my spiritual path. Light and nutritious diet along with eating smaller quantities do help a lot. This book also helped me understand the changes occurring in me with respect to soma and amrita. I have added the neti, nauli, kapalbhati and trakata to my yoga practices and they do help with the movement of inner energies and seem to enhance my practice by a lot.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for one place to find all the information required for yogic diet and cleansing in one book. Really awesome book.
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Exceeded expectations, October 15, 2007
By A (Canada)

I was pleasantly surprised by this little book, not because I wasn't expecting the highest quality from Yogani which he seems to continuously deliver, but because I didn't think I would find anything of value from an area of yoga I wasn't overly interested in.

Diet, Shatkarmas and Amaroli provides practical, clear and easy to understand steps on how you can accelerate your spiritual transformation by cleansing and caring for your body. For those interested in knowing what else they can do, this well written little book certainly fills the bill.

A must read for anyone who has any questions or concerns with this part of their spiritual practice and/ or for their general health and well-being. Also of benefit for anyone including the most experienced yoga practitioners.
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A must have source for PRACTICAL yogic health!, August 22, 2007
By Anthony Markley (Baltimore, MD)

I have read all of Yogani's books and this one suits the line of his informative and motivating works. This is a book offering not only practical Yogic methods of inner and outer purification via diet, cleansing, and amaroli - but also Yogani's humble words of wisdom. Somehow when you read Yogani's books it feels like he is writing it personally for YOU. He has a way of motivating you to follow the practices, but the motivation he offers seems to come from within yourself rather than because a book says so.

The section of amaroli, while not a full investigation of its physiological effects on the biological and scientific level that some may require in order to take on this taboo practice, offers practical suggestions for how to get started and what to expect.

As someone who rejected the notion of ever taking on amaroli the first, second, and third times I heard of it, Yogani treated the subject and its stigma effectively to clear me of my misconceptions. I thank him deeply because ever since taking on this practice I have seen my chronic congestive symptoms that I have had for 10+ years melt away within the first two days!

I really recommend this book to anyone interested in Yogic health and nutrition, and of course to anyone who follows Yogani's teachings.
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Thrilled, August 21, 2007
By happy solitude (Baltimore, MD United States)

I'm thrilled with Yogani's latest book.

The term "moderation" really fits what he teaches. With respect to diet, he meets mainstream Americans where they are at: On an obsessive quest to slim down, focused either on low fat or low carb. He moves from there in the direction of healthful eating, emphasizing self pacing and inner silence.

The section on Amaroli is both sensitive to the stigma issue, and persuasive in argument. And it is nicely dovetailed into his discussion of fasting. One little note gave me an Ahaa, like, "I was just noticing that!" When soma energy is rising, observes Yogani, it reduces to the volume of urine produced sometimes. When I was fasting and also doing a little amaroli recently, I noticed that although I was drinking lots of water, I was not urinating that much. Now I see that as related mysteriously to the process of soma energy rising.

The one practice I have never tried, but am now planning to do, since reading the book, is the enima. All the teachings are linked to core practices. Yogani also pays due respect to the spontaneous yoga which I like because I personally usually try intentional practices only after spontaneous yoga has pointed the way.

Many thanks to Yogani for another excellent contribution to his teaching series.
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