The Kundalini Yoga Experience: Bringing Body, Mind, and Spirit Together

by Darryl O'Keeffe and Dharma Singh Khalsa

Book Overview

A beautifully redesigned edition of the only authoritative guide to the most traditional form of yoga that teaches poses, breathing techniques, and meditations to bring bodies and minds together in a healthier, balanced union. Americans have adopted yoga as one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to stay healthy. But yoga isn't only about increasing flexibility and holding onto that youthful glow. As yoga becomes more popular, much of its original...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743225821
• ISBN13: 9780743225823
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

fun and interactive!

This book is colorful - both literally and metaphorically. It goes deeply into the Kundalini practice to offer more than just the physical tradition of practice. My favorite part of the book is the section on the chakras - it's easily used as a tool for teaching guided meditation.

Excellent Manual

This book is organized quite well. The layout is simple and straightforward. You are taken step by step in creating your own yoga routine. First, you learn about numerology and then use it to calculate which yogic bodies you need to work on. There are two meditations to choose from per yogic body. Next, you learn about the chakras and use a chart to rate your abilities within each chakra. You then use these scores to determine which chakra to work on first. Finally, you are shown how to compose an entire routine consisting of warm-up exercises, your personal kriya (chakra exercise), deep relaxation and wake-up sequence, your personal yogic body meditation, and a completion mantra. There is easily enough information in this book to provide for years of diverse methods of practice. The book is also very well illustrated; all of the exercises are quite easy to emulate. The final section illustrates and expounds upon aspects of the exercises including breath, mantras, mundras, asanas, and bandhs. Something to note also: this book is primarily an instruction manual. As such, it doesn't always adequately or fully explain everything presented. If you are, in fact, looking for a training guide and not a book that espouses the metaphysics of yoga, this is not really a problem.

best yoga book i've read!

This is a simple and easy way to start a yoga practice. It provides several easy to follow and understand excercises, as well as several ways to aide in choosing which set to do. Wonderful Book!

What is yoga

It is not often you get to read a book that has been simply written in an authoritate manner by people who clearly walk the walk, as well as walk the talk. Well written, beautifully illustrated there is nothing to stop anyone who is interested beginning to learn the discipline safely and to their benefit with immediate affect. This book is much needed and is a credit to its authors, both of whom have been hard at work serving others over many years as they learned their trade through practice and service to others. This book has a refreshing approach where self diagnosis made easy and gifted to the reader in a way they can relate to and understand. True at a physical level but also for the emotions and for the intellect. Remedial measures are explained and made simple and then it is up to the reader whether to proceed or not, if they choose to then the remedial measures of today become the preventative means of tomorrow. Available in the USA and Canada as The Kundalini Yoga Experience and in the UK as Kundalini the Essence of Yoga - same book different title both by Guru Dharam Singh & Darryl O'Keeffe. Both the authors are real yogi's of our time yet follow a traditional lineage influenced by Yogi Bhajan, an unbeatable combination and a must for any bookshelf.

Kundalini yoga for all

The most outstanding quality of this excellent book is its accessibility to both the novice yoga student and the experienced teacher. It is a rare treat to find a book on Kundalini Yoga which encourages the reader to work alone if there are no expert teachers around. It does this in a safe, confident and careful manner, leading the reader through the initial stages to the final, satisfactory stages of practising this powerful yogic system. The book is set out in four parts :1. Numerology and the chakra systemThis aids the student in choosing which kriya and meditation to practice in order to balance the chakras.2. Your practice - preparation for practice.3. The kriyas and meditations - beautifully photographed and clearly explained with smiling, confident models.4. Kundalini components - an essential explanation of yogic elements.The book includes precautions, an excellent glossary, some concise tables explaining the chakras and our ten bodies. As a teacher, I have used this book for several months, finding it so well produced, I can work from it very easily and I have also recommended it to my students.