Download or read book Transformative Whirling written by Shahram Shiva and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you watch children spin don't you envy their fun? Children everywhere love the freeing sense of spinning. Shahram Shiva has invented a unique new breakthrough technique that makes it possible for all to whirl comfortably, competently, without any dizziness or discomfort. The beauty of this system and key to its success are in its simplicity. Since 1995, Shahram Shiva has helped tens of thousands of people to whirl comfortably and competently. Some of his whirling students, including Deepak Chopra, teach this method in their workshops. Shahram Shiva's guided group whirling has been featured on CNN, and he's taught it for many years at Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, NY Open Center among many other universities and institutions. He's worked with choreographers and stage directors for whirling shows. Also performed and has trained dancers to whirl at New York's Joyce and LaMama theaters. Furthermore he trained the actor Robert Downey Jr. to whirl in the movie Game 6. TAPPING INTO THE CORE OF THE UNIVERSE Whirling affects you on physical, mental, spiritual and psychological levels. Whirling can instantly change your mood. It can brighten it and bring a smile to your face. Whirling is a meditative movement and a form of meditation. Whirling can almost instantly create a state of meditation. Shahram Shiva calls it "active meditation" vs. the classic Buddha posture which he calls "passive meditation." This active form of meditation helps center the body and the mind within a short few minutes. Whirling is an ancient form of centering and meditation. It has been used in many spiritual cultures throughout the world. Through whirling we harmonize with the energy of the creation and form a more positive energy around us. Dervishes drop their black cloaks (a representative of their bodies) and begin to whirl as divine entities wearing all white. They believe that while they are whirling they are closest to being divine. Whirling is a wonderful form of zero to low impact exercise. Whirling is also good for weight loss. Practicing whirling on regular basis will keep you lean, vibrant and full of energy. All matter in our universe is in a constant state of spinning, from subatomic particles to solar systems and galaxies. Every particle in our body and all that is around us are already spinning. Shahram Shiva's method is based on basic laws of physics and the common thread between all physical manifestations. This method is non-ritualistic by design. Students by following this proven method without any prior training can begin whirling immediately.
Download or read book Aztec Philosophy written by James Maffie and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.
Download or read book Transformative Meditation written by Gayle Clayton and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of humanity requires adaptation to ensure its survival. We must change our destructive materialistic ways and protect the place that gives us life. Through enlightened groups, we must create a new world vision. A developing collective mind recognizes no borders, no political loyalties, or cultural prejudices. Transformative meditation groups serve as pathways to bring more people into awareness of the global mind. -author Gayle Clayton Modern science and technology have given us longer, healthier lives, connected continents instantly via the Internet, and made us more aware that we all share the same planet. But along with technological progress has come an increase in stress-related physical and mental health problems, the development of nuclear and biological weapons, and the onset of global warming. As humanity grows ever more complex, we must learn to balance our technological advances with the evolution of higher consciousness. One way to do that is through group or collective meditation. This system of meditation creates a single identity capable of transforming individuals, groups, and the world as a whole. Author and group meditation facilitator Gayle Clayton provides advice and instructions for several varieties of both solitary and group meditation. Examine the nature of consciousness as you explore ways to increase moments of mystical awareness. Learn how to establish your own working meditation group, and explore exercises designed to foster both personal and planetary healing.
Download or read book Sufi Whirling Therapy written by Dr Job Magnus and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveil the Mysteries of the Soul with "Sufi Whirling Therapy" Dive into a transformative journey that transcends time and space. Discover the captivating world of Sufi Whirling Therapy, a profound practice that unveils the secrets of the soul and opens doors to self-discovery and healing. Explore the Ancestral Roots: Unearth the rich history and principles that form the bedrock of Sufi Whirling Therapy. From its ancient origins to its deep-seated connection to Sufism, each page immerses you in the wisdom of the ages. Master the Fundamentals: Embark on a spiritual odyssey through the fundamentals of Sufi Whirling. Uncover the symbolism that lies beneath the rotating motions, and explore the profound spiritual aspects that define this mystical practice. Revel in the Technique: Delve into the intricacies of the whirling technique, from body reading to meditative practices. Grasp the essence of rotating motions and positions that guide you towards a harmonious union of mind, body, and spirit. Harmony through Chanting and Music: Immerse yourself in the therapeutic power of Sufi music and chants. Witness the healing properties of melodies, rhythms, and mantras that resonate with your spinal cord, emotional well-being, and spiritual connection. Heal Your Being: Uncover the profound healing properties of Sufi Whirling Therapy. From physical benefits to emotional and mental well-being, and a deep spiritual connection, this practice opens a gateway to holistic healing. Integrate Whirling into Daily Life: Learn to infuse the magic of whirling into your everyday activities. Establish sacred spaces, engage in group sessions, and build a community that shares in the transformative power of Sufi Whirling. Overcome Obstacles with Grace: Navigate obstacles with insights on overcoming resistance, handling physical limitations, and addressing emotional obstacles. Cultivate cultural sensitivity and honor Sufi traditions on your path to self-discovery. The Pathway to Self-Relationship: In the concluding chapters, discover how Sufi Whirling becomes a pathway to self-relationship. Embrace the whirling dervish within, and understand the profound connection between movement, stillness, and healing. Why You Can't Do Away with This Book: This isn't just a book; it's your roadmap to a more profound connection with yourself. Sufi Whirling Therapy is not merely a practice; it's a timeless journey toward self-realization, healing, and spiritual evolution. Don't miss the chance to embark on a life-altering journey. Grab your copy of "Sufi Whirling Therapy" now and let the transformative power of whirling guide you to a more enriched and harmonious existence. Your soul is ready to dance to the rhythm of its own awakening.
Download or read book Transition and Transformation written by Bo Florin and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Sjöström (1879-1960), or Victor Seastrom as he was known during his Hollywood career, was undoubtedly one of the most renowned silent film directors. Focusing on his masterpieces such as 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The Wind', but also including films he had made in Sweden before moving to Hollywood, as well as film fragments and films considered lost, Florin analyses Sjöström's austere and naturalistic style and the transformations it underwent during his Hollywood years.
Download or read book The Toltec Path of Transformation written by Heather Ash Amara and published by Hierophant Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change is a constant, defining characteristic of life. Seasons change, weather changes, leaves change, and so do people. In HeatherAsh Amara's The Toltec Path of Transformation: Embracing the Four Elements of Change, we are encouraged to embrace the changes in our lives and create the kind of change that we want to see in ourselves and our world. The Four Elements: air, fire, water and earth--all carry specific properties and functions that can lead to a complete life transformation along the Toltec path. Air represents our mental body, and grants clear perceptions once we shift our focus from the negativity surrounding us to the love and gratitude that lie just below the surface. Fire, the energetic body, gives us the opportunity to clean out the agreements, behaviors and beliefs that no longer serve us, so that we can make room for new, beneficial connections. Water, the emotional body, encourages us to open to new things, people and experiences. By staying open, we can gracefully accept what life brings while still working to create our own changes. Earth, the physical body, acts to nourish us from the inside out, proving again that both beauty and health start from within. It is through HeatherAsh's carefully composed instruction and guidance that we can use the Four Elements of Change to navigate the Toltec Path into our Divine center, where comparison and judgment drop away, and we can meet ourselves as the beautiful beings that we were meant to be.
Download or read book Art and Spiritual Transformation written by Finley Eversole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primal role of art in awakening and liberating the soul of humanity • Presents a seven-stage journey of transformation moving from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination • Provides a meditation practice to experience the spiritual energy embedded within art • Includes artists Alex Grey, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Walter Gaudnek, and others Art and Spiritual Transformation presents a seven-stage journey from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination that is possible through the world of art. Finley Eversole introduces a meditation practice that moves beyond the visual content of an art form in order to connect with its embedded spiritual energy, allowing the viewer to tap in to the deeper consciousness inherent in the artwork and awaken dormant powers in the depths of the viewer’s soul. Examining modern and postmodern artwork from 1945 onward, Eversole reveals the influences of ancient Egypt, India, China, and alchemy on this art. He draws extensively on philosophy, myth and symbolism, literature, and metaphysics to explain the seven stages of spiritual death and rebirth of the soul possible through art: the experience of self-loss, the journey into the underworld, the experience of the dark night of the soul, the conflict with and triumph over evil, the awakening of new life in the depths of being, and the return and reintegration of consciousness on a higher plane of being, resulting finally in ecstasy, transfiguration, illumination, and liberation. To illustrate these stages, Eversole includes works by abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko and modern visionary artists Alex Grey and Ernst Fuchs, among others, to reveal the powerful and liberating forces art contributes to the transformation and evolution of human consciousness.
Download or read book Transformative Learning written by Edmund O'Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this powerful book, Edmund O'Sullivan aims to radically alter the role of education in building a sustainable future. He addresses the reform of eduction in completely new terms. Where most contemporary "reforms" are about how to make education less expensive, O'Sullivan focuses on how to make it more relevant--personally and globally--in the next millennium.
Download or read book Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen written by Paul U. Unschuld and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China’s cultural and intellectual past. Unschuld traces the history of the Su wen to its origins in the final centuries B.C.E., when numerous authors wrote short medical essays to explain the foundations of human health and illness on the basis of the newly developed vessel theory. He examines the meaning of the title and the way the work has been received throughout Chinese medical history, both before and after the eleventh century when the text as it is known today emerged. Unschuld’s survey of the contents includes illuminating discussions of the yin-yang and five-agents doctrines, the perception of the human body and its organs, qi and blood, pathogenic agents, concepts of disease and diagnosis, and a variety of therapies, including the new technique of acupuncture. An extensive appendix, furthermore, offers a detailed introduction to the complicated climatological theories of Wu yun liu qi ("five periods and six qi"), which were added to the Su wen by Wang Bing in the Tang era. In an epilogue, Unschuld writes about the break with tradition and innovative style of thought represented by the Su wen. For the first time, health care took the form of "medicine," in that it focused on environmental conditions, climatic agents, and behavior as causal in the emergence of disease and on the importance of natural laws in explaining illness. Unschuld points out that much of what we surmise about the human organism is simply a projection, reflecting dominant values and social goals, and he constructs a hypothesis to explain the formation and acceptance of basic notions of health and disease in a given society. Reading the Su wen, he says, not only offers a better understanding of the roots of Chinese medicine as an integrated aspect of Chinese civilization; it also provides a much needed starting point for discussions of the differences and parallels between European and Chinese ways of dealing with illness and the risk of early death.
Download or read book Cities and Saints Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Topics in Modal Analysis I Volume 7 written by James De Clerck and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seventh volume of eight from the IMAC - XXXII Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on: Linear Systems Substructure Modelling Adaptive Structures Experimental Techniques Analytical Methods Damage Detection Damping of Materials & Members Modal Parameter Identification Modal Testing Methods System Identification Active Control Modal Parameter Estimation Processing Modal Data
Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Mechanics written by Wolfgang Kliemann and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering systems have played a crucial role in stimulating many of the modern developments in nonlinear and stochastic dynamics. After 20 years of rapid progress in these areas, this book provides an overview of the current state of nonlinear modeling and analysis for mechanical and structural systems. This volume is a coherent compendium written by leading experts from the United States, Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, and Australia. The 22 articles describe the background, recent developments, applications, and future directions in bifurcation theory, chaos, perturbation methods, stochastic stability, stochastic flows, random vibrations, reliability, disordered systems, earthquake engineering, and numerics. The book gives readers a sophisticated toolbox that will allow them to tackle modeling problems in mechanical systems that use stochastic and nonlinear dynamics ideas. An extensive bibliography and index ensure this volume will remain a reference standard for years to come.
Download or read book Linear and Nonlinear Rotordynamics written by Yukio Ishida and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging treatment of fundamental rotordynamics in order to serve engineers with the necessary knowledge to eliminate various vibration problems. New to this edition are three chapters on highly significant topics: Vibration Suppression - The chapter presents various methods and is a helpful guidance for professional engineers. Magnetic Bearings - The chapter provides fundamental knowledge and enables the reader to realize simple magnetic bearings in the laboratory. Some Practical Rotor Systems - The chapter explains various vibration characteristics of steam turbines and wind turbines. The contents of other chapters on Balancing, Vibrations due to Mechanical Elements, and Cracked Rotors are added to and revised extensively. The authors provide a classification of rotating shaft systems and general coverage of key ideas common to all branches of rotordynamics. They offers a unique analysis of dynamical problems, such as nonlinear rotordynamics, self-excited vibration, nonstationary vibration, and flow-induced oscillations. Nonlinear resonances are discussed in detail, as well as methods for shaft stability and various theoretical derivations and computational methods for analyzing rotors to determine and correct vibrations. This edition also includes case studies and problems.
Download or read book Lovebytes written by Claudia Sasse and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ancient wisdom meets modern multi-dimensional expansion . . . a magical journey into lightness” As the author sits in her room, she receives and writes down a story that takes her into a fantastical world. A world that seems to have little to do with ordinary life . . . yet it feels realer than real. I live in two worlds, you see. On one hand, I am traveling up the mysterious path in a jungle unlike any I have ever heard of or imagined. On the other hand, I am sitting on my sheepskin rug, leaning against my bed, typing words into my laptop. More than just entertainment, LoveBytes is an extended healing visualization . . . a living transmission . . . an encoded multi-dimensional adventure that bridges different realms, bringing forth the light within at an increasing rate, and transforming us into a lighter, more expanded way of being, opening us up to live our greatest potential from power of the heart. Fall in love with the delightful cast of characters and allow yourself to be carried home to your true self by the wondrous flow of the journey.
Download or read book Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance written by Rosalind Field and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed book.
Download or read book Transformative Change in Western Thought written by Ingo Gildenhard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with orderly world views and it is often cast out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and anthropology. From Homer and Ovid to Proust and H. P. Lovecraft and through figures from Proteus to Kafka's Fly and toSpiderman, four historical surveys are combined with nine case studies to show the malleable, yet persistent, presence of transformation throughout Western cultural history.
Download or read book Transformative Learning Meets Bildung written by Anna Laros and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume sets the groundwork for a dialogue between transformative learning and continental theories of Bildung in adulthood. Both theoretical frameworks bring meaning to the complex learning process of individuals as they develop a more critical worldview. In this volume, a variety of authors from different countries and theoretical backgrounds offer new understandings about Bildung and transformative learning through discussion of theoretical analyses, educational practices, and empirical research. As a result, readers gain greater insight into these theories and related implications for teaching for change. From the various chapters an exciting relationship between both theories begins to emerge and provides impetus for greater discussion and further research about two important theories of change in the field of adult education. /div
