Chakra Meditation [Abridged, Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Layne Redmond (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2006

Kundalini Shakti -- the primordial energy that enlivens each of the seven chakras -- lies sleeping at the base of our spine. To return our consciousness to the crown chakra and cultivate ultimate awareness, she must be awakened. According to yogic tradition, this awakening requires a focused meditation practice. "The energy of Kundalini is aroused through specific postures, visualizations, and chants. The Shakti surges up the spine in a coiling wave of fire, heat, and light, opening the chakras." Layne Redmond brings her rare skills as a yoga practitioner, scholar, and sound healer together on Chakra Meditation. Here, she offers a complete course to break through energetic obstacles, increase the natural flow of prana (life force), and give you an inner source of power to pursue your life with purpose, passion, and strength. Book jacket.

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About the Author

World-acclaimed author, recording artist, and teacher Layne Redmond has been a student of yoga since 1970. She teaches healing rhythmic and drumming practices which draw upon yoga, pranayama, and Buddhist meditation and percussion techniques from around the world. A recognized master of the frame drum, she was one of only two women featured in Planet Drum, the book about ethnic drumming by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. She teaches workshops around the world in drumming, dance, and meditation.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Har/Com edition (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591791782
• ISBN-13: 978-1591791782
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #924,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book is for True Yogis and Yoginis, October 5, 2008

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Tom Thompson "Tom Thompson" (Southern Pines, North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chakra Meditation (Hardcover)

Ever since I was a child, I have always been thrilled by the great books about Yoga as they not only pointed to the incredible possibilities of being human, but showed us how to awaken and realize these potentials. This is such a book.

Layne Redmond is an authentic yogini, a brilliant scholar, author and a gifted artist and musician. Her keen intellect has a depth of curiosity and sincere interest that takes her research to the very heart of the matter. I know. I was one of the people she grilled while writing this book and my library of rare and sacred yogic texts was thoroughly examined. Layne has also spent her life studying and practicing yoga in several traditons with true yogis such as Yogiraj Swami Bua and Hari Dass Baba, among others.

It was with great joy as I read through this well written and fascinating book. Layne has created another classic for my library. This is one of those books that saves you from reading a whole bunch of other books as Layne has thoroughly done the research and tied it all together. It is a fascinating book and easy to read. But this is a book for true yogis, for yogic practitioners. It not only tells you all about the chakras from several points of view, including the psychological and scientific ones, but also how to safely practice this powerful yoga. Layne very clearly delineates the why and how of the practices within the book, and then leads you through them on the CD that accompanies the book. Layne has a soothing and inspiring voice that comes from her many years of teaching and performing. Reading the book gets the reader excited about awakening the incredible potentials within the chakras. Listening to Layne on the CD is the guru safely guiding you through these effective and powerful yogic practices.

And then there are the awesome, full page pictures of each chakra and the whole chakra system with the three major nadis, or psychic nerves. They are beautiful!

This is a fun, all encompassing book on the chakras and how to awaken their awesome potentials. This is a true yoga book. If you are a yogi/yogini, you know what I mean. I highly recommend it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, September 14, 2010

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baphomette de medici (blue state of pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chakra Meditation (Hardcover)

redmond continues to amaze...one of the better cut-to-the-chase chakra books out there. i recommend her heart chakra cd from sounds true....