Awakening the Spine
10 best books like Awakening the Spine (Vanda Scaravelli): The Upanishads, Be Here Now, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Light on Yoga, Introducing Buddha, Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice, Anatomy of Movement, The Perfection of Yoga, This is It & Other Essays on Zen & Spiritual Experience, Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140441638 |
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma...
Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga & gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of human nature. Illustrated.
The book is divided into four sections:
Journey: The Transformation: Dr Richard Alpert, PhD into Baba...
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
| Author | Patañjali |
| ISBN | 0609609599 |
“A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth.”—Jacob Needleman
The Yoga Sutras were cast in their present form in India around the third century b.c. Yoga is from the Sanskrit root meaning “union,” and a sutra is a thread or aphoristic...
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 0805210318 |
Light on Yoga has become the bible for hundreds of thousands of people who practice Yoga daily with the Iyengar method, for exercise, meditation, or simply relaxation. With more than 600 photographs depicting all the postures and breathing exercises, it remains the fullest, most practical, and most...
| Author | Jane Hope |
| ISBN | 1840460768 |
Informative yet ironic.
TW: images of suicide, abuse of women and orgies are in this book. Unnecessarily attacks Christianity.
I'm a Roman Catholic, yet I wished to learn more of what my Buddhist friends practiced. At first, this book was very informative and nice to learn about....
| Author | Christy Turlington |
| ISBN | 0786868066 |
ccording to a recent Time magazine cover story, 15 million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimes-nearly twice as many as five years ago. This healing art balances the mind with the body, incorporating physical strength with mental fitness to reach a place of deep, lasting peace,...
| Author | Blandine Calais-Germain |
| ISBN | 0939616173 |
Anatomy of Movement is a dynamic, integrated approach to the study of the physical structures of the musculoskeletal system and their functional relationship to the movements of the human body. The emphasis is on basic human anatomy as it relates to external body movement. In clear and concise text...
| Author | A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda |
| ISBN | 0912776366 |
To my surprise in many ways I don't like this book, and it took a long time for me to read the 56 small pages. I don't like it and give it 4 stars. Odd.
What I didn't like was that the feeling I got was didactic anger. The challenge with that is why this feeling. Is that what is in the words, or am I seeing...
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0394719042 |
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening".
Recognizing that the experience of presence is the only experience, is also a reminder that our “I” doesn’t exist beyond this present moment...
Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit
| Author | Queen Afua |
| ISBN | 0345434862 |
Queen Afua is a nationally renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and dedicated healer of women’s bodies and women’s souls who practices a uniquely Afrocentric spirituality. Her classic bestseller, Heal Thyself, forever changed the way African Americans practice holistic health. Now,...
| Author | Leslie Kaminoff |
| ISBN | 0736062785 |
See inside every yoga pose! With clear, expert instruction and full-color, detailed anatomical drawings, Yoga Anatomy depicts the most common asanas to provide a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement and of yoga itself.
From breathing to standing...
Perfectly Imperfect: The Art and Soul of Yoga Practice
| Author | Baron Baptiste |
| ISBN | 1401947530 |
NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“This book will shine new light on your journey, ignite your practice with new power, inspire new possibilities for growth, and infuse your life with the grace and confidence you seek.” —Baron Baptiste
A little over...
The Crystal Healing Guide
| Author | Simon Lilly |
| ISBN | 0008215723 |
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Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals: An Easy-to-Use Handbook for Identifying and Understanding Your Power Animals and Animal Spirit Helpers
| Author | Steven D. Farmer |
| ISBN | 1401939651 |
Stephen Farmer's "Animal Spirit Guides" is one of the most comprehensive and popular volumes on the incredible power of animals to teach us and show us our true path. In this condensed edition, you'll find all the spirit animals from the original edition plus some new ones in a format that makes it even...
Native Wisdom for White Minds
| Author | Anne Wilson Schaef |
| ISBN | 0345394054 |
You don't have to be white to have a white mind.
What is a white mind? As Anne Wilson Schaef learned during her travels throughout the world among Native Peoples, anyone raised in modern Western society or by Western culture can have a white mind. White minds are trapped in a closed system of thinking...
One Year Wiser: 365 Illustrated Meditations
One Year Wiser is a book of 365 inspiring meditations. On every page are words of wisdom from thinkers both ancient and modern, from the Buddha to Abraham Lincoln to Anne Frank. Brought to life by Mike Medaglia’s stunning Japanese- and Chinese-influenced artwork, the spiritual teachings that fill...
| Author | Vernon Katz |
| ISBN | 0399174230 |
This new translation of The Upanishads is at once delightfully simple and rigorously learned, providing today’s readers with an accurate, accessible rendering of the core work of ancient Indian philosophy.
The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient...
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