The Yoga of the Nine Emotions: The Tantric Practice of Rasa Sadhana

by Peter Marchand

Book Overview

A guide to changing negative emotions and promoting happiness using traditional Tantric and Ayurvedic practices - Details the 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions - Offers emotional fasting exercises and daily routines for emotional well-being - Shows how Rasa Sadhana can be integrated with other yoga practices - Based on the teachings of Harish Johari Rasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the mind. The Tantric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594770948
• ISBN13: 9781594770944
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Destiny Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This book changes the way you view the world. However, it's also very practical. It gives you advice on how to make changes to improve your daily life. The bookcover looks mysterious, but most of it is not about religion, so no matter your faith you can get a lot out of it. I highly recommend it!

Working with your emotions - and having them work for you!

This is a great book that introduces the spiritual practice known as Rasa Sadhana, or the Yoga of the Emotions. Rasa Sadhana is a practice which names the Nine Key Emotions in two categories: agreeable and disagreeable. The premise is to reduce one's need or involvement with the less agreeable emotions of anger, disgust, sadness and fear, and enhance the agreeable emotions of wonder, calmness, love, courage and joy. Peter Marchand brings this practice to life with practical examples and suggestions to reduce or enhance these emotions. Of course reading the book isn't enough, it takes courage (one of the agreeable emotions) to begin to integrate these practices on a daily basis and reap the very positive and tangible results. However reading about them is the first step, it cultivates awareness and actually I felt remarkable peaceful after reading the chapter on CALM. This book is a must for anyone hoping to bring yogic awareness into one's emotional life, it will save you $$$ on psychotherapy and be an invaluable tool for mastering your emotions within interpersonal relationships, at home, at work and at play.