Download or read book The Vibrant Stillness written by Padma Neppalli and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply contemplative and inspiring, this book is a compilation of two highly revered texts in Advaita (Non-Duality). The first is a commentary on the selected names of the Divine Mother from the Lalita Sahasran?ma and the second is a commentary on Adi Shankara’s Dak?i??m?rti Stotram. Lalita Sahasran?ma is a treasure house of the knowledge of Sri Vidya. Seekers of all kinds, yogis, tantrics, and non-dualists alike, are drawn to it. Each name of the Goddess is packed with profound meaning - the gross, the subtle, and the subtlest. In his commentary, Sri Srinivasa Rao focuses on 108 of the 1000 names of the Goddess, and expounds on the most hidden and subtlest of the meanings of each name. Dak?i??m?rti Stotram is a crown jewel among Shankara’s hymns with the entire Advaita doctrine packed into ten profound verses. This book is a blend of Shaiva Advaita (aka Kashmir Shaivism) and Shankara Advaita. Sri Srinivasa Rao’s penetrating vision did not see any differences in the essential message of these apparently different genres of texts. According to him, “Advaita Vedanta is not different from the Sri Vidya of the Shaiva Advaita because both culminate in the union of the finite self with the Infinite.” “The texts discussed in this book are among the serious passages in Vedanta. Sri Yellamraju has excelled in capturing the essence of the highest concepts of Vedanta in as simple terms as possible. The outcome of the study of Vedanta, as Sri Yellamraju writes in his epilogue to the Stotram, is to attain sarv?tmabhava, the experience of the self in all beings, a very egalitarian idea which is unique to Upanishadic thought.” – Dr. K. Aravinda Rao

Download or read book The Great Stillness written by Bruce Kumar Frantzis and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of a two-book series that peels away the metaphors and explains the living traditions of Lao Tse's water method of Taoist meditation. The main focus of the book is to explain 'inner dissolving, ' its major mediation technique that helps people overcome deeply bound negative emotions, deepen their spiritual and psychic development, and develop balance and compassion. "The Great Stillness" is one of the few books that discusses the Taoist traditions of sexual chi gung and meditation. It is the only book that includes detailed instructions and illustrations for the moving meditation practice called Circle Walking that was developed in Taoist monasteries over 4000 years ago. This volume advances the breathing lessons taught in volume one: "Relaxing Into Your Being,"

Download or read book Cranio Sacral Integration written by Thomas Attlee D.O., R.C.S.T. and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This foundation volume presents a unique integration of the wide spectrum of approaches to Cranio-Sacral Therapy, providing practitioners and students with a broad and authoritative understanding of the discipline. The author covers the fundamentals of theory as well as the practical skills and techniques needed to carry out Cranio-Sacral work, and the book also includes detailed instructions for treatments, all of which are clearly explained in extensive case histories, photographs and illustrations. Based upon the syllabus of the College of Cranio-Sacral Therapy in London, UK, this is an unparalleled resource for practitioners of Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Cranial Osteopathy, and an essential reference for students.

Download or read book BOUNDLESS INTIMACY written by Dr. Andrew Shugyo Bonnici and published by Peaceful Light Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Bonnici's book will teach you how to passionately live from the still-intelligence of your core-Self, how to recover and daily refresh the curiosity and wonder of your beginner's heartmind, how to love and receive love far beyond doubt, defensiveness, and fear, how to wisely and compassionately meet the arising experiences and challenges of your everyday life, how to gratefully live in boundless intimacy with all beings and things, and how to pass through death and dying with deep peace and trust in the whole universe just as you are. As you conscientiously study and apply the teachings within Dr. Bonnici's book, all your living, loving, and being will be enriched and enhanced far beyond your expectations. As your spirited, loving, and vibrant aliveness exceeds your expectations, you will continue to arrive as a radically inclusive human being who daily lives from the inborn power of stillness, courage, authenticity, transparency, loving calmness, and a deep faith that honors and clarifies all beliefs.

Download or read book Cranio Sacral Integration Foundation Second Edition written by Thomas Attlee D.O., R.C.S.T. and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely updated and revised edition of the seminal foundation text to Cranio-Sacral Therapy presents a unique integration of a wide spectrum of approaches, providing practitioners and students with an up-to-date and authoritative understanding of the discipline. The book covers the fundamentals of theory as well as the practical skills and techniques needed to carry out Cranio-Sacral work and is colour-coded for ease of use. It includes detailed instructions for treatments, which are clearly explained in extensive case histories and full-colour photographs and illustrations. Based upon the syllabus of the College of Cranio-Sacral Therapy in London, UK, this is an unparalleled resource for practitioners of Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Cranial Osteopathy, and an essential reference for students.

Download or read book Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stillness written by Erich Schiffmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the yoga master featured in the bestselling Yoga Mind and Body videos with Ali McGraw comes an introduction to Hatha Yoga, complete with step-by-step instructions and meditation techniques. Includes more than 100 poses and exercises. Photos.

Download or read book Expressive Arts Education and Therapy written by Markus Scott-Alexander and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Expressive Arts Education and Therapy the reader follows the creation of art-making in tandem with the unfolding of sense-making. A dance theatre lab is the stage for exploration where what was discovered was phenomenologically and collaboratively reflected upon, the participatory nature of the creative work pouring into the research methodology. Creative Process-based Research efficacy is contingent upon the interaction of three poles – the creator, the product and an experience of the internal/external creative process of the creator. All three perspectives comprise the dynamics required of this research methodology in order to understand what is occurring in these three distinct and essential elements of the creative process. What results is an experience of cohesion that consciously describes this interplay. The author outlines his influences that contributed to both the art-making and sense-making over the seven year research project. His work in experimental theatre in New York, as an educator with The European Graduate School in Switzerland and his studies with philosopher John de Ruiter in Canada are integrated into the world of research in the field of expressive arts. The visceral component of creating clarity is uncovered and articulated. This book inspires new ways of thinking about participatory, collaborative, arts-centered research where the skill of exposing the artist/researcher’s modus operandi for making art and making sense is named in a myriad of ways that call upon the intellect as well as the artist’s intuitive sense of what to focus on and its relevance to education, therapy and global health.

Download or read book Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics Volume One written by Franklyn Sills and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is commonly seen as the spiritual approach to craniosacral therapy (CST); in fact, BCST as taught by Franklyn Sills, the pioneer in the field, is quite different from conventional CST. Biodynamic work is based on the development of perceptual skills where the practitioner learns to become sensitive to subtle respiratory motions called primary respiration and also to the power of spontaneous healing. Through the Breath of Life, which, Sills asserts, echoes the Holy Spirit in the Judeo-Christian tradition, bodhicitta in Buddhism, and the Tai Chi in Taoism, students of BCST learn to enter a state of presence oriented to the client’s inherent ability to heal. In Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Sills offers students and practitioners an in-depth, step-by-step guide to the development of perceptual and clinical skills with specific clinical exercises and explorations to help students and practitioners learn the essentials of a biodynamic approach. Individual chapters cover such topics as holism and biodynamics; mid-tide, Long Tide, Dynamic Stillness and stillpoint process; the motility of tissues and the central nervous system; transference and the shadow; shamanistic resonances; and more.

Download or read book I m Divorcing with You Mr Billionaire 1 written by The Wine Press and published by POWER READING LTD. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I received a pornographic video. "Do you like this?" The man speaking in the video is my husband, Mark, whom I haven't seen for several months. He is naked, his shirt and pants scattered on the ground, thrusting forcefully on a woman whose face I can't see, her plump and round breasts bouncing vigorously. I can clearly hear the slapping sounds in the video, mixed with lustful moans and grunts. "Yes, yes, fuck me hard, baby," the woman screams ecstatically in response. "You naughty girl!" Mark stands up and flips her over, slapping her buttocks as he speaks. "Stick your ass up!" The woman giggles, turns around, sways her buttocks, and kneels on the bed. I feel like someone has poured a bucket of ice water on my head. It's bad enough that my husband is having an affair, but what's worse is that the other woman is my own sister, Bella. **** “I want to get a divorce, Mark,” I repeated myself in case he didn't hear me the first time—even though I knew he'd heard me clearly. He stared at me with a frown before answering coldly, "It's not up to you! I'm very busy, don't waste my time with such boring topics, or try to attract my attention!" The last thing I was going to do was argue or bicker with him. "I will have the lawyer send you the divorce agreement," was all I said, as calmly as I could muster. He didn't even say another word after that and just went through the door he'd been standing in front of, slamming it harshly behind him. My eyes lingered on the knob of the door a bit absentmindedly before I pulled the wedding ring off my finger and placed it on the table. I grabbed my suitcase, which I'd already had my things packed in and headed out of the house.

Download or read book Der gro e Ausbruch written by Briant Rokyta and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Text in „Der große Ausbruch“ beschreibt die Transformation des Protagonisten Vinzent Zettel. Die Kunst und das Leben führen Zettel aus seinem normalen Dasein, dass er zunehmend wie ein Gefängnis empfindet, hin zu innerer Freiheit. Dieser spektakuläre „große Ausbruch“ und Zettels Ankommen in einem neuen, inneren Land wird begleitet von Bildern und Skulpturen des bildenden Künstlers Briant Rokyta, fotographiert wurden die Werke von Renée Kellner. The text of "The Great Escape" describes the transformation of the protagonist Vincent Zettel. Art and life conspire to lead Zettel beyond his normal existence – an existence that he increasingly feels is like a prison – towards an inner freedom. The dramatic Great Escape, and the arrival of Zettel in a new, interior land, is accompanied by pictures and sculptures by the visual artist Briant Rokyta. They have been photographed by Renee Kellner. English rendering of text by Malcolm Bradley.

Download or read book Being in Time to the Music written by David Ross and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being-in-time to the music from the ground up is a work in phenomenology, where this term is broadly defined, comprehending Plato, Heidegger, Hegel, and Marx. The most direct referent is Hegel, together with the theoretical revolution that he initiated with Phenomenology of Mind. This text’s more general purpose is to set the tone for a 21st communism based upon the idea of dancing with death, assuming full responsibility for one’s mortality, and abandoning the self to love as the meaning of existence. This dance is choreographed through my conversations with the above mentioned writers. In conversing with them I aim to displace (if not usurp) them from the throne of honour which is nothing more than the authority borrowed from me. By this I do not intend to deny completely their ‘other to me’ character. However, they exist or even ‘figure’ for me, both in the sense of of ‘count,’ having importance, as those that I read, and by which I read myself. They have borrowed my authority, namely, my own potential to be an author. So ‘reading them is to re-assume that borrowed authority. The life of the reader, to paraphrase Barthes, begins with the death of the author.

Download or read book Crossing the Soul s River written by William O. Roberts and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Moving, articulate, and insightful, this book is a welcome exploration of men's spiritual journey at midlife. Written by an author with his own extraordinary middle passage, the book provides practical insights for men, while offering women an invaluable window into men's souls." -Allan Chinen, author of Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul"Lively and unembarrassed, written with great psychological acumen, Crossing the Soul's River is a major contribution to our understanding of men at midlife. This is the conversation men need to have with another man when their familiar old assumptions and priorities no longer make sense. Give it to a man you really care about. Give it to a woman who wants to know men at the core." -Stephen Bank, coauthor of The Sibling Bond"Crossing the Soul's River is one of the second generation of men's books that are trying to chart concrete steps men can take to do the work we need to do to become more self-actualized and, therefore, more responsible partners, citizens, and churchmen . . . [Roberts's] articulation of men's needs for the wisdom of Sophia is the clearest I have ever read."-Stephen Boyd, author of The Men We Long to Be: Beyond Lonely Warriors and Desperate Lovers "William O. Roberts's compelling book puts the male midlife crisis into its deepest context-the growth of ourselves as spiritual beings. In so doing it moves well beyond treatments which focus solely on the psychological dimension of this process-though Roberts details these too with a sharp, insightful eye honed by his own personal experience. Most helpful is his detailing of various rites of passage designed to help men navigate through this difficult time. In this the book is of practical as well as intellectual use. I found the book deeply insightful and altogether illuminating."-Brian Fay, author of Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science: A Multicultural Approach

Download or read book The Three Marriages written by David Whyte and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical, "crystalline" (Elle) approach to integrating our work, relationships, and inner selves from the bestselling author, poet, and speaker. The author of Crossing the Unknown Sea and The Heart Aroused encourages readers to reimagine how they inhabit the worlds of love, work, and self-understanding. Whyte suggests that separating these "marriages" in order to balance them is to destroy the fabric of happiness itself. Drawing from his own struggles and the lives of some of the world's great writers and artists-from Dante to Jane Austen to Robert Louis Stevenson-Whyte explores the ways these core commitments are connected. Only by understanding the journey involved in each of the three marriages and the stages of their maturation, he says, can we understand how to bring them together in one fulfilled life.

Download or read book Choosing Presence written by Jim Heaney and published by Turning Stone Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All we have to do is to recognize God as being intimately present within us.” — Brother Lawrence Brother Lawrence’s seventeenth-century spiritual classic The Practice of the Presence of God showed how cultivating presence can be the salve to stress, anxiety, worry, and fear, all of which continue to plague us today. Now, in this contemporary complement to Brother Lawrence’s work, author and contemplative teacher Jim Heaney explains in clear, accessible language why presence is essential to connecting to and sustaining a vibrant inner life. Drawing on Christian scripture, spiritual luminaries from the Christian tradition, the social sciences, and personal experience, Choosing Presence thoroughly explores why this practice is so effective at alleviating compulsive negative thinking, and offers a practical guide to incorporating it into your own life. With an emphasis on action, each chapter includes: • A spiritual intention to help bring in stillness and connect with God’s spiritual energy • A step-by-step guided breathing practice • Three questions to help you gauge your progress Choosing Presence also includes a detailed question-and-answer section that will help you overcome common obstacles to practicing presence. The book’s free companion app, Practicing Presence—A Christian Way, will assist you in deepening your commitment.

Download or read book The Productions of Time written by Martha Heyneman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-08-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immersed in the vivid sensory details of a woman’s everyday life, Martha Heyneman ponders the great questions of our place in the universe and our purpose here on the earth.

Download or read book American Negro Poetry written by Arna Bontemps and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated edition of the standard anthology of Negro poetry in America.

Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Louis Joseph Vance US Illustrated written by Louis Joseph Vance and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 5036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early twentieth-century American novelist Louis Joseph Vance created the popular character Michael Lanyard, a criminal-turned-detective known as ‘The Lone Wolf’. His sensation thrillers and whirlwind adventure stories were well-regarded for their imaginative, gruesome and engaging qualities. He published many bestselling books and established his own motion picture production company, whose films were distributed by Paramount Pictures. Many of his works were adapted for the silver screen, winning countless new admirers across the world. This eBook presents Vance’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time and informative introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Vance’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major novels * Five ‘Lone Wolf’ novels * Features 25 novels in total, with individual contents tables * Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, post-1925 works cannot appear in this edition (including three ‘Lone Wolf’ novels). When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Lone Wolf Series The Lone Wolf (1914) The False Faces (1918) Alias the Lone Wolf (1921) Red Masquerade (1921) The Lone Wolf Returns (1923) The Novels Terence O’Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer (1905) The Private War (1906) The Brass Bowl (1907) The Black Bag (1908) The Bronze Bell (1909) The Pool of Flame (1909) Fortune Hunter (1910) No Man’s Land (1910) Cynthia of the Minute (1911) The Bandbox (1912) The Destroying Angel (1912) The Day of Days (1913) Joan Thursday (1913) The Trey O’ Hearts (1914) Nobody (1915) Sheep’s Clothing (1915) The Dark Mirror (1920) Linda Lee Incorporated (1922) Baroque (1923) Road to En-Dor (1925) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks