The Spiritualising of the Body

Name: The Spiritualising of the Body
Brand: Lammers-Koll-Verlag
SKU: 9783935925587-G
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By Heinz Grill

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The flower-garden Religion, sacrifice and yoga The significance of the asana Pracitcal aspects for working with the exercises Relaxation The beginning of the exercises - the cosmic prayer The preparatory standing positions The triangle and the wide circle The shoulderstand with plough and bridge The inclined plane with triangle The lying-triangle positions The fish The tree The tip-toe position The St. Andrew´s cross The balance position The carefree face The balancing head-knee position The locust The bow The horse The half-diamond The crow positions The head-knee position and the twist The camel and the diamond The sitting twist The turtle The wheel The yoga sleep The peacock The cobra The complete bow The dove The headstand, the scorpion and its cycle The half-moon and the dancer The crow and the handstand Lectures About attitude Spiritual sadhana In comparison to the way of practising yoga now familiar in the West, this spiritually and artistically-oriented path of spiritual training places less emphasis on a technical method and more on the uniqueness of meditation in its pictures and choice of words. The exercises have been taken from the broad dimension of hatha-yoga and have a deeper and newer meaning through a living, spiritual vision. This spiritual or super-sensory perspective gives the exercises a sensitive and artistic character, which raises them above a mere training in yoga and gives them that touch of the soul, free of the body. Reading and working with the texts, contemplating the pictures and repeated practice in following the message leads seeking students to a spiritualising of the body which grows ever deeper and more intense. With this artistically-oriented path of practice they receive that mysterious, other-worldly spiritual fire which leads them from within outwards to initiation and realisation. The path, which begins in the intangibility of the soul and so in the source of meditation, free of the physical and even of the mental and emotional worlds is barely comprehensible to our Western world of consciousness. We could assume that people would have to begin the path of yoga with physical exercises and work from here up to an ascent into the subtle and spiritual planes. But such a path from below upwards seems only valid in a very qualified and limited way and so the emphasis here lies in dedication and work with the inspired words, which when repeated give meditation and the descent of an etheric abundance and bliss. Critical opponents, who usually come from the Western ranks of yoga and the church, do not recognise the profound difference between the conventional planes of thinking and the imaginative and inspired way of seeing, which embraces the soul-planes in a much broader and intangible dimension. The spiritual path described here is therefore not a typical path of practice which begins in the physical and clears the way upwards to the spirit. It is exactly the opposite. The path is a creative source of the spirit in its expression and begins in the pathless and formless and leads from the incomprehensible into comprehensible form. The process of progressive change, which concerns all the mental aspects and ultimately also the body in its coarser manifestation, lasts several years and needs repeated confrontation and work. This is not a fast path which might perhaps be concluded by a fiery experience of enlightenment. The path of transformation is a devotion of the whole of life and needs a limitless surrender of the self, which fits the highest spirit of yoga and is comparable in the West to the sacred sacrifice of the earlier Christians.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 223
Release Date:: 2005-01-20
Publication Date:: 2005-01-20
Publisher:: Lammers-Koll-Verlag
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 3935925581
ISBN13:: 9783935925587
Weight:: 509 g
Height:: 148 cm
Width:: 210 cm

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