A Chakra & Kundalini Workbook: Psycho-Spiritual Techniques for Health, Rejuvenation, Psychic Powers & Spiritual Realization (Paperback)

by Jonn Mumford (Author) "Hatha is perhaps the aspect of Yoga best known to Westerners..." (more)
Key Phrases: plexus charging, vesica pisces, winged globe, Yoga Nidra, Yoni Mudra, Raja Yoga (more...)

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Spend just a few minutes each day practicing the remarkable yoga and energywork techniques in this book and you will quickly build a solid foundation of inner relaxation and energy discipline that leads to better health, a longer life, and greater control over your personal destiny. Dr. Jonn Mumford's classic guide to the fundamentals of energy work is one of the clearest, most accessible books on Yoga available. It offers a wealth of illustrations, tables, and full-color chakra energy cards to bridge the gap between instruction and understanding. In the book's final section, a beautiful Tantric ritual describes the "levers" with which you can transform an everyday moment into one of transcendence.

A Chakra & Kundalini Workbook includes a twelve-week plan of powerful psychic techniques, breath and posture exercises.

• Experience total release from everyday stress and worries• Overcome insomnia, mild depression, anxiety, and panic attacks• Rejuvenate your nervous system and sharpen sensory perception• Improve your memory and access "forgotten" subconscious material• Develop your psychic abilities, including telepathy and clairvoyance• Enter states of ecstasy and gain cosmic consciousness

About the Author
Dr. Jonn Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati) wrote his first book "Psychosomatic Yoga" in 1961 while completing an intensive period of study in India.  His current books include "Ecstasy Through Tantra, "A Chakra and Kundalini Workbook", "Mind Magic Kit" and "Magic Tattwas" from Llewellyn.

Dr. Mumford is a direct disciple of Dr. Swami Gitananda and Paramhansa Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Bihar.  He was initiated by Swami Satyananda in 1973, at BSY Monghyr, Bihar State, India.  Dr. Mumford is respected across the world for his knowledge and scholarship.  A born teacher, Dr. Mumford frequently gives lecture on relaxation techniques, sexuality, Tantra and other aspects of human development and spirituality .

No mere theoretician, Dr. Mumford is a world renowned authority on Tantra and yoga.  He has demonstrated his own self-mastery of cardiac cessation, obliteration of individual pulse beat at will, sensory withdrawal and voluntary breath retention over the 5 minute range, and start and stop bleeding on command.

His background combining chiropractic and psychology with extensive international experience in a wide range of Eastern disciplines makes Dr. Mumford eminently well-suited to the task of disseminating the secrets of Tantra unto the West.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; Enlarged 2nd edition (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567184731
• ISBN-13: 978-1567184730
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #126,728 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful book, February 20, 1998

By A Customer

This is not your traditional yoga book. But it is to be treasured for that very reason. The author has all the exercises of yoga but not in the usual sense. For instance, in hatha yoga one need not perform bending and twisting exercises to get the same benefits of the authors version of hatha yoga which is meditation on accupressure points. According to Esoteric physiology, the body has main chakras and many minor ones which are energy centers. Each of these chakras confers either psychic powers, health benefits or other gifts when awakened. Mumfords version of hatha and raja yoga show how to awaken these energy centers and attain the highest goal of yoga which is nirvana or Godhead. The book is easy to follow and practice. The section on tantra does not need a physical partner, since it is axiomatic in occult studies that the same benefits are gained by practicing the excercises in the imagination alone. An excellent book for the novice as well as expert yogi.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint-hearted, November 5, 2001

By	Oneironaut (Gleneden Beach, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This book is a bit complicated and rather intense, but not impossible. I would only recommend it for those who seriously want to pursue the exercises in the book; those who are not particularly interested in setting aside the necessary time probably shouldn't bother.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Relaxation is key to all life's problems, November 12, 2006

By	Mathew Love Waraksa (San Marcos, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Why five stars? Simple. This book is simple. It is straight foward, easy to use, and safe. Why, after all that has been said, do I claim this book is safe? There is only one chapter on kundalini activation, and it is only in an indirect fashion, that activation occurs. The book focusses on sitting and relaxation techniques. The emphasis is on attentive awareness, cultivated to the point of concentration. There are no techniques in the entire book which would produce any explosive psychic reactions. Taking the alarmist position can be remedied with a perview of antero alli's angel tech, the article on kundalini crackups is particularly enlightening. The main exercise involving the kundalini is the solar plexus charging technique, by which the practitioner concentrates on an internally generated heat until absorbsion of the bodymind process saturates awareness with heat. This experience of laya is an indirect experience of the kundalini energy, centered in the manipura chakra, the center of balance and equilibrium. I suggest starting with chapter one, use the chakra meditation from magical tattwas, or the suhum gayatri from death and dying. Do it fourteen days before moving on. You don't need them to achieve progress however, remember the technique is the goal. Achieving relaxation and self-mastery are in fact noble goals we should all hope to attain in our lifetime, I believe.