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Advanced Yoga Practices
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Advanced Yoga Practices
Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living
By Yogani

AYP Publishing (Dec 2004) / 548 Pages / English

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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

 

Table of Contents

Introduction

Summary of Additions and Illustrations

The Main Lessons

     1-9 – (Not Used)
     Lesson 10 – Why This Discussion?
     Lesson 11 – What is Yoga? What is Religion?
     Lesson 12 – The Essential Ingredient – Desire
     Lesson 13 – Meditation – Awakening the Silent Seed
     Lesson 14 – Not Much Happening in Meditation
     Lesson 15 – Restlessness in Meditation
     Lesson 16 – Bliss in Meditation
     Lesson 17 – Was I Asleep in Meditation?
     Lesson 18 – Finding the Time for Meditation
     Lesson 19 – What Tradition to follow?
     Lesson 20 – Enlightenment without God?
     Lesson 21 – Objects of Meditation
     Lesson 22 – Vibratory Quality of Mantra
     Lesson 23 – Watching the Clock in Meditation
     Lesson 24 – Does Meditation Cure Sickness?
     Lesson 25 – Effect of Meditation on High Stress
                         Situations
     26 – (Not Used)
     Lesson 27 – Location of Mantra in Meditation
     Lesson 28 – Will I become a Milquetoast from
                         Meditation
     Lesson 29 – Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs
     Lesson 30 – Diet and Meditation
     Lesson 31 – Enjoying the Great Outdoors
     32 – (Not Used)
     Lesson 33 – A New Way to Sit in Meditation
     Lesson 34 – Meditation and World Problems
     Lesson 35 – Enlightenment Milestones
     Lesson 36 – Meditation and the Fifth Dimension
     Lesson 37 – Group Meditations
     Lesson 38 – What is Your Time Line?
     Lesson 39 – Pranayama – Cultivating the Soil of
                         the Nervous System
     40 – (Not Used)
     Lesson 41 – Spinal Breathing Pranayama
     Lesson 42 – Is this Pranayama Natural?
     Lesson 43 – Relationship of Pranayama to Meditation
     Lesson 44 – Finding the Spinal Nerve
     Lesson 45 – Breathing is Slowing Down in Pranayama
     Lesson 46 – Which Way is Up in Spinal Breathing?
     Lesson 47 – Chakras?
     Lesson 48 – Pranayama and Health
     Lesson 49 – Perspiration in Pranayama
     Lesson 50 – Managing the Time in Pranayama
     Lesson 51 – Strange Gurglings in Pranayama
     Lesson 52 – Big Little Nerve
     Lesson 53 – Light and Sound in Pranayama
     Lesson 54 – Kundalini – A Code Word for Sex
     Lesson 55 – Mulabandha – Enlivening Sexual Energy
                         Upward
     Lesson 56 – Sambhavi – Opening the Third Eye
     Lesson 57 – The Guru is in Me?
     Lesson 58 – Step by Step
     Lesson 59 – Some Mantra Particulars
     Lesson 60 – Unexpected Interruptions
     61 – (Not Used)
     Lesson 62 – Duration of One Spinal Breathing Cycle?
     Lesson 63 – Cool and Warm Currents in Pranayama
     Lesson 64 – The Ecstatic Silver Thread
     Lesson 65 – The Pineal and Pituitary Glands
     Lesson 66 – We are Arriving, Not Leaving
     Lesson 67 – Bhakti – The Science of Devotion
     Lesson 68 – Relationship of Traumatic Experiences and
                         Bhakti
     Lesson 69 – Kundalini Symptoms, Imbalances and
                         Remedies
     70 – (Not Used)
     Lesson 71 – Yoga Asanas – A Wonderful Billion Dollar
                         Industry
     Lesson 72 – Please Tell Me Exactly What To Do
     Lesson 73 – More on Chakras
     Lesson 74 – For This Life, and the Next One
     Lesson 75 – Siddhasana – Living in a Fountain of
                         Ecstasy
     Lesson 76 – Siddhis – Are Powers Real?
     Lesson 77 – Still More on Chakras
     Lesson 78 – Pleasure and the Path
     Lesson 79 – Mantra Reminders 117
     Lesson 80 – Physical Fitness and Yoga
     Lesson 81 – Charging Ahead Too Fast?
     82 – (Omitted)
     Lesson 83 – There She Goes – Kundalini, that is
     Lesson 84 – The Art of Doing Nothing
     Lesson 85 – Enlightenment Milestones Revisited
     Lesson 86 – Finding your Meditation Routine
     87 – (Not Used)
     Lesson 88 – The Magic of Bhakti
     Lesson 89 – The Caduceus – A Snapshot of You and
                         Me
     Lesson 90 – Caduceus Correction and Ida/Pingala
                         Review
     Lesson 91 – Yoni Mudra Kumbhaka – Purging the Third
                         Eye, and More
     Lesson 92 – The Star
     Lesson 93 – Changing Times
     Lesson 94 – Some House Cleaning Tips
     Lesson 95 – Stabilizing Ecstasy
     Lesson 96 – Spinal Breathing Startup Review
     Lesson 97 – Tantra – Help for Sex Maniacs and
                         Ordinary Lovers
     Lesson 98 – Yoga and Marriage
     Lesson 99 – Practices – Front End and Back End
     Lesson 100 – What is Enlightenment?
     Lesson 101 – What is Brahmacharya?
     Lesson 102 – Importance of Smooth Long-Term
                          Meditation Routine
     Lesson 103 – Destiny and Free Will
     Lesson 104 – Stubborn Energy Blockages
     Lesson 105 – Hitting a Wall at Mulabandha
     Lesson 106 – Mantra and Breathing in Meditation
     Lesson 107 – Self-Pacing in Postures and Practices
     Lesson 108 – Kechari Mudra – A Giant Leap for
                           Humankind
     Lesson 109 – Bhakti, Meditation and Inner Silence
     Lesson 110 – Romantic Love
     111 – (Not Used)
     Lesson 112 – Bhakti – Up Close and Personal
     Lesson 113 – Bliss, Ecstasy and Divine Love
     Lesson 114 – Kechari – Throat Jamming in Stage 1
     Lesson 115 – Mantra, Language and Meaning
     Lesson 116 – Meditation – First Enhancement of Mantra
     Lesson 117 – Finding a Mantra with no Meaning?
     Lesson 118 – Strong Pulse in Meditation
     Lesson 119 – Some Other Approaches to Mulabandha
     Lesson 120 – “Getting Enlightenment”
     Lesson 121 – Pratyahara – Expansion of the Senses
                           Inward
     Lesson 122 – Witnessing
     123 – (Omitted)
     Lesson 124 – Keeping it Simple
     Lesson 125 – Kundalini Heat
     Lesson 126 – Relationship of Pratyahara, Intellect and
                           Bhakti
     Lesson 127 – Siddhasana or Padmasana?
     Lesson 128 – Siddhasana and Pressure in the Head
     Lesson 129 – Nauli – Raising Kundalini with Your
                           Abdominal Muscles
     Lesson 130 – Vibrations at the Root
     Lesson 131 – Coordinating Sambhavi and Spinal
                           Breathing
     Lesson 132 – What is Sin?
     Lesson 133 – Nectar
     Lesson 134 – Yoga and Western Psychology
     Lesson 135 – Kundalini Currents in Legs and Arms
     Lesson 136 – Vigyan Bhairav Tantra – The 112
                           Techniques
     Lesson 137 – Getting Both Feet into Paradise
     Lesson 138 – Would You Like to get Reconditioned?
     Lesson 139 – Dynamic Jalandhara – The Chin Pump
     Lesson 140 – Chin pump – Coordinating Head Rotation
                           and Breathing
     141 – (Omitted)
     142 – (Omitted)
     Lesson 143 – Chin Pump – Effects in the Lower Body
     Lesson 144 – Chin pump Lite (Without Kumbhaka)
     Lesson 145 – Overdoing it with Asanas
     Lesson 146 – Shaktipat – Direct Transmissions of
                         Spiritual Energy
     Lesson 147 – Sequencing of Asanas, Pranayama and
                           Meditation
     Lesson 148 – Why Practices Twice a Day?
     Lesson 149 – The Eight Limbs of Yoga and Samyama –
                           Melting the Darkness
     Lesson 150 – Samyama Practice
     Lesson 151 – Samyama – Settling in with Your Sutras
     Lesson 152 – Thinking about Meanings versus Doing
                           Samyama Practice
     Lesson 153 – Yoga Sutra Translations, and on becoming
                          “Super-Normal”
     Lesson 154 – Samyama – “Let Go and Let God”
     Lesson 155 – Samyama – Lightness, Lurching and
                           Levitation?
     Lesson 156 – Muladhara/Root and Integration of
                           Practices
     Lesson 157 – What is Inner Silence?
     Lesson 158 – Too Relaxed in Meditation?
     Lesson 159 – Too Many Thoughts in Meditation?
     Lesson 160 – Extreme Sensitivity to Meditation – What
                           To Do?
     Lesson 161 – Dark Nights and the Rise of Inner Silence
     162 – (Omitted)
     Lesson 163 – Sublime Clarity
     Lesson 164 – Human Power
     Lesson 165 – Desire and Change
     Lesson 166 – Pay It Forward
     Lesson 167 – Living on Air and Sunlight Alone?
     Lesson 168 – Is Pain a Prerequisite for Inner Peace?
     Lesson 169 – Is this Ecstatic Conductivity?
     Lesson 170 – That's Kundalini?
     Lesson 171 – Spinal Bastrika Pranayama – Pressure-
                          Washing Your Karma
     Lesson 172 – Spinal Bastrika Energy, Sleep and Time of
                           Practice
     Lesson 173 – Spinal Bastrika Cycle Time
     Lesson 174 – Sex and Sambhavi
     Lesson 175 – Suspending Breath and New Experiences
     Lesson 176 – Dissecting Samyama
     Lesson 177 – Advanced Siddhasana
     Lesson 178 – Dharma
     Lesson 179 – The Star Revisited
     Lesson 180 – Off to a Good Start in Meditation
     Lesson 181 – Expectations and Our Time Line
     Lesson 182 – Healthy Skepticism
     Lesson 183 – Movements and Automatic Yoga
     Lesson 184 – Teleportation, Samyama and Siddhis
     Lesson 185 – Role of the Intellect
     Lesson 186 – Meditation – Second Enhancement of
                           Mantra
     Lesson 187 – Establishing and Maintaining Daily Practice
     Lesson 188 – Mantra Design 101
     Lesson 189 – Where is the Third Eye?
     Lesson 190 – Sambhavi During Meditation?
     Lesson 191 – How to Cultivate Ecstatic Conductivity
     Lesson 192 – Tips on Kechari
     Lesson 193 – Extending Practice Time Safely
     Lesson 194 – More Flashing Lights
     Lesson 195 – Mantra, Thoughts and Attention
     Lesson 196 – Refining a Sound in the Mind
     Lesson 197 – Kechari Sensations
     Lesson 198 – Targeted Bastrika – A Laser for Karmic
                           Cleansing
     Lesson 199 – Managing the Opening of the Crown
     Lesson 200 – Follow-up on a Sensitive Meditator
     Lesson 201 – The Drama of a Premature Crown
                         Opening
     Lesson 202 – Free-Form versus Structured Practices
     Lesson 203 – Reflections on Some Dramatic
                         Experiences
     Lesson 204 – Summary of Principles, Abilities and
                           Practices
     Lesson 205 – More on Kechari
     Lesson 206 – Varieties of Spinal Breathing
     Lesson 207 – Left or Right Side Imbalances
     Lesson 208 – Inner Energy Collisions and Strong
                           Emotions
     Lesson 209 – Fitting Daily Practices into a Busy
                         Schedule
     Lesson 210 – Handling Automatic Yoga and Siddhis
     211 – (Omitted)
     Lesson 212 – Whole Body Mudra
     Lesson 213 – Conscious Sleeping
     Lesson 214 – Finding Your Spiritual “Hook”
     215 – (Omitted)
     Lesson 216 – Kundalini Jolts and Self-Pacing in
                         Practices
     Lesson 217 – Responsibility
     Lesson 218 – Meditation Sensitivity and Head
                         Movements
     Lesson 219 – Irritability in Activity
     Lesson 220 – Opening the Heart Chakra
     Lesson 221 – Expanding Heart Space
     Lesson 222 – Chimes in Inner Space?
     Lesson 223 – Kechari Stage 1 and-a-half? (a dialog)
     Lesson 224 – Automatic Kechari and Visions
     Lesson 225 – Clearing the Clouds
     Lesson 226 – Expansion on Our Mind
     Lesson 227 – Meditation, Activity and Sleep
     Lesson 228 – Heart Opening and Service
     Lesson 229 – Spinal Breathing in Inner Space
     Lesson 230 – Crown and Third Eye
     Lesson 231 – Dusty Rooms
     Lesson 232 – Meditation and Automatic Yoga (a dialog)
     Lesson 233 – Yoga and Religious Beliefs
     Lesson 234 – Inner Wisdom Shining Through
     Lesson 235 – Blending Inner Silence and Ecstasy

The Tantra Lessons

     Lesson T1 – What is Tantra Yoga?
     Lesson T2 – Meditation, Bhakti and Tantric Sex
     T3 – (Not Used)
     Lesson T4 – The Holdback Method – A Stairway to
                         Heaven
     Lesson T5 – Blocking Male Ejaculation – Putting on the
                         Training Wheels
     T6 – (Not Used)
     Lesson T7 – The Woman's Role – Nothing Less Than
                         “Divine Goddess”
     T8 – (Not Used)
     Lesson T9 – The Relationship of Brahmacharya, Tantric
                         Sex and Celibacy
     Lesson T10 – Sexual Healing
     Lesson T11 – Blocking and the Evolution of Spiritual
                           Biology
     Lesson T12 – Wet Dreams and Premature Ejaculation
     Lesson T13 – Energy Rushing up the Spine During
                           Urination
     Lesson T14 – A Happy Woman
     Lesson T15 – Lustful Pleasures
     Lesson T16 – What is the Best Tantric Practice?
     Lesson T17 – Reclaiming the Body-Soul Connection
     Lesson T18 – Enlightenment with and without Orgasm?
     Lesson T19 – Sex, Love and Bhakti
     T20 – (Omitted)
     Lesson T21 – Ancient Advice on Tantric Sex
     Lesson T22 – Kundalini and Sexual Attraction for Guru
                           and God
     Lesson T23 – The Count Method – How to Stay in
                         Front of Orgasm
     Lesson T24 – Tantric Masturbation with Sitting
                         Practices?
     Lesson T25 – Sri Vidya – The Fruition of Tantra
     T26 – (Not Used)
     Lesson T27 – The Quest for Infinite Intimacy
     Lesson T28 – Advanced Siddhasana for Women and
                         Men
     Lesson T29 – Sleeping Lingam
     Lesson T30 – Vajroli Mudra
     Lesson T31 – Constant Coming
     Lesson T32 – Menstruation, Yoga and Amaroli
     Lesson T33 – Spinal Breathing during Tantric Sex?
     Lesson T34 – Kechari and the “Secret Spot”
     Lesson T35 – Ecstatic Reflex during Sex

Additional Resources

     Topic Index
     Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
     Reader Feedback


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