Yoga

I threw myself into yoga at an early age. I didn’t go to classes or seek and guru in the East, but found several within me, who spoke and taught. I was desperate to find the experience of enlightenment, so I wasn’t interested in what I call ‘class yoga’. So I did some very strage things, like learning to swallow my tongue. Having found my way to that experience I can look back on my first book, Yoga and Relaxation, with a feeling there is so much I would like to add to it; perhaps in another book.

Relaxation

Yoga and Relaxation – Tony Crisp Relaxation is an Art – Chapter 3 To be relaxed is a blessed thing. It is reminiscent of a beautiful ship .........More

Finding Wholeness

Looking around, we can see the truth of this in a thousand ways. Earth or matter is negative or receptive to light. Together they manifest colour. Electricity has a negative and positive polarity which only in unity produces a result. Movement, acting upon inert matter, also produces sound....More

Breath Control

Yoga and Relaxation – Tony Crisp Breath Control – Pranayama Chapter 5 Many writers on the subject of breath control start off by showing how breathing is .........More

In Tune with Infinity

So the Karma Yogi looks out upon his experiences as the great book of life, unveiling to him the mystery of his own being. while as he reads the secrets of life, he allows what he has learnt of THAT, to come into his life and transform it. Thus the hidden acts upon the revealed, transmuting the base...More

The Yoga of Love

Yoga and Relaxation – Tony Crisp The Yoga of Love – Bhakti Yoga – Chapter 7 Devotional exercises are like the warmth that makes the unwieldy block .........More

Yoga of the Mind

Yoga and Relaxation – Tony Crisp Raja Yoga – Yoga of the Mind = Chapter 8 Just as the growing seedling cannot respond to the light until its .........More

The Master

Yoga and Relaxation – Tony Crisp The lives of some of the great spirits of our own times – Chapter 9 The whole of this book is an introduction to these last chapters. .........More

Teachings of the Masters

Then there is no need to give him knowledge but simply to remove the veil of ignorance that hides the existent Knowledge. This, of course, is not to be done at one stroke, since the disciple is immersed in age-old ignorance and needs repeated instruction, perhaps through life after life. And what is...More

Helpful Addresses for Yoga

Yoga and Relaxation – Tony Crisp Helful Addresses for Yoga – Chapter 11 Organised bodies teaching various aspects of Yoga: Teachers Ramakrishna Ramana Maharshi The Theosophical Society in England 50 Gloucester Place, London .........More

Helpful Yoga Books

Yoga and Relaxation – Tony Crisp Helpful Yoga Books – Chapter 12 The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James Zen .........More

The Squatting and Standing Meditation

When ready take an in-breath and slightly open the head and shoulders backwards. Then on the out-breath drop down into the squatting position, relaxing as much as possible. If the squat is difficult use a block of wood or a book to put your heels on. If it is still difficult use a low chair or stool...More

The Breath of Life

A simplified Eastern practice is as follows. As always, breathe in through the nose, sitting with straight back. Breathe in to a count of four seconds, hold the breath for sixteen seconds, and breathe out to a count of eight. Naturally the count can be adapted to personal capacity. There should be n...More

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