Awakening: Aspiration to Realization Through Integral Yoga

by Swami Karunananda

Overview

Within the human heart exists a universal yearning for peace and happiness. There is a common aspiration for greater meaning and fulfillment in life. In Awakening: Aspiration to Realization through Integral Yoga, Swami Karunananda explores the wisdom teachings of Yoga that provide a roadmap for this journey. In a clear and compelling fashion, she leads us from philosophy to practice, from intellectual understanding to applying the teachings in our daily lives. We discover how to move through sorrow, fear, and suffering and find our way to faith, forgiveness, and healing. It is a transformative process that begins with the search for a new way of seeing or moving through life and culminates when we awaken to the peace, joy, and freedom of our own true nature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938477195
Publisher:	Integral Yoga Publications
Publication date:	07/15/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	936 KB

About the Author

Swami Karunananda is a senior disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda, the founder of Integral Yoga, Satchidananda Ashram, and the Integral Yoga Institutes and Centers. With over forty years experience teaching all aspects of Yoga, Swami Karunananda is one of Integral Yogas master teachers. She specializes in programs that focus on the science of meditation, the philosophy of Yoga, Yoga breathing techniques for better health and well-being, and personal transformation. In 1989, she developed the Integral Yoga Teacher Training course in Raja Yoga and, in 1991,Pranayama and Meditation Teacher Training. She has since conducted many workshops, retreats, and teacher training programs worldwide.

Swami Karunananda compiled and edited the Lotus Prayer Book, an interfaith book of prayers, and Enlightening Tales As Told By Sri Swami Satchidananda. She was contributing editor for The Breath of Life: Integral Yoga Pranayama and for Integral Yoga Magazine. The current volume is an expression' of her lifelong love for the study and practice of Yoga.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction: Vision and Legacy xix

Exploration: Journeying to Enlightenment 1

Wake Up! 3

Exit Strategy for Suffering 11

Prescriptions for Peace 17

One Practice Is All You Need 23

Freedom through Meditation 27

Breath: The Subtle Connection 33

Seeing Unity 41

Integration: Bringing Yoga into Daily Life 47

Crossing the River of Fire 49

Why Am I Here? 59

Laying a Strong Foundation 65

All About Action 71

Enlightened Eating 75

Really Living Yoga 81

Transformation: Shifting Our Attitudes and Actions 87

One Thought at a Time 89

Strategies for Transformation 95

As You Think, So You Become 101

Walk with Faith 103

No More Fear 111

The Gift of Healing 117

Choosing Your Point of View 121

Finding Your Way to Forgiveness 127

Transmission: Passing the Torch 133

The Transmission Equation 135

What We Seek Is Who We Are 141

Going Fast, Getting Nowhere 147

Mainstream Yoga 153

The Yoga of Teaching 157

Glossary 165

Bibliography 179

About Sri Swami Satchidananda 181

About the Author 183