Peter Marchand

The Yoga of the Nine Emotions (eBook, ePUB)

The Tantric Practice of Rasa Sadhana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 tradition recognizes 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions: love, humor, wonder, courage, calmness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. Those who practice Rasa Sadhana learn to overcome negative emotions in order to pursue better health, enhanced spiritual growth, and enduring happiness. Our emotions are continuously affected by the interplay of our senses, the elements, food, and the life force in our body. In The Yoga of the Nine Emotions, Peter Marchand offers many practical physiological and philosophical tools from Tantric and Ayurvedic traditions that can help readers change their emotional patterns. He explains the nature and purpose of each Rasa and how we can strengthen or weaken one Rasa through another. He also offers Ayurvedic cooking guidelines and daily routines for balancing sensory input and strengthening emotional health, including fasting from negative emotions as well as how to energize positive ones. As we master our emotions through the practice of Rasa Sadhana, we gain true control of our lives and our relationships with others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781594776489
• Artikelnr.: 49184884

Autorenporträt

Peter Marchand is one of the founders of Sanatan Society, a networking organization of the family and students of Harish Johari (1934-1999), a tantric scholar, poet, and artist who authored 12 books, including Chakras and Tools for Tantra. Marchand became a student of Johari in 1983 and teaches Rasa Sadhana and Jnana Yoga in Europe, India, the United States, and Canada. The author of The Yoga of Truth and The Yoga of the Nine Emotions, he lives in Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Rasa Sadhana
1 Nine Rasas
2 Rasas in the Body
3 Body Emotions in Western Science
4 Indian Philosophy and Rasas

Part Two: The Nine Rasas
5 Shringara: Love
6 Hasya: Joy
7 Adbhuta: Wonder
8 Shanta: Calmness
9 Raudra: Anger
10 Veerya: Courage
11 Karuna: Sadness
12 Bhayanaka: Fear
13 Vibhatsa: Disgust

Part Three: Working with Our Rasas
14 Mastering Emotions
15 Rasa Sadhana
16 Balancing Sensory Input
17 Cooking Emotions
18 Daily Routines
19 Emotional Emergencies

Part Four: Our Rasas in Society
20 The Emotional Evolution of Humankind
21 Rasas and Western Science
22 Rasas, Religion, Spirituality, and Yoga
23 Power to the Artists
24 Social Work and Politics
25 Mood Marketing
26 Rasas in Therapy

Conclusion

Sanskrit Glossary

References and Recommended Reading

Index

Rezensionen

"This guide to mastering your emotions through traditional yogic, Tantric, and Ayurvedic practices is definitely the most fascinating book that I've read in a long while. . . . provides both the information and inspiration to utilize our emotions to promote better health, spiritual growth, and enduring happiness." Timothy Burgin, www.yogabasics.com, Nov 2006