Insight Yoga [Book]

Overview

Sarah Powers is widely known for her original ideas and techniques for using yoga both for health and spiritual growth. Combining traditional yoga techniques with the meridians of Chinese medicine and meditation, she has created a practice she calls Insight Yoga; a series of sequences that teaches both the dynamic flow poses (yang) and the more passive resting poses (yin) forms its foundation.

Demonstrated by the author in beautiful photographs, the poses balance gentle stretches with dynamic moves for ultimate benefit to organs, muscles, joints, and tendons. Powers offers a basic explanation of Chinese medicine theory, as well as of Buddhist mindfulness meditation.

Foreword by Paul Grilley

Details

Chapters in this book include:

• •Meridian Theory
• •Beginning a Yin/Yang Yoga Practice
• •Organ Health in Yin Yoga
• •Yin Yoga Sequences for the Kidney and Urinary Bladder
• •Yin Yoga Sequences for the Liver and Gallbladder
• •Yin Yoga Sequences for the Spleen and Stomach Organ Meridians
• •Yin Yoga Session for the Lung, Heart and Intestine Meridian Pairs
• •The Anatomy of the Mind in Yin Yoga
• •Yang Yoga (Dynamic Flow)
• •Yang Sequences for Balancing with a Yin Practice
• •Seated Pranayama
• •Basic Buddha-Dharma
• •Mindfullness Meditation

Buyer's Guide

• Audience: All students of yoga and meditation
• Focus: Revitalizing body and mind, cultivating inner awareness
• Intensity: Reader's choice
• Props: Yoga mat, blanket and meditation cushion (optional)
• Style: Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Meditation

Media Reviews

"This is a teaching of great warmth and intelligence that will heal your body, invigorate your mind, and inspire your soul."

"Sarah Powers' synthesis of wisdom traditions is awesome. Indeed, each tradition is like a transparent map, which, when overlaid one upon another, gives a more complete rendering of the Living Event in which we are all participants. Insight Yoga will be of tremendous interest and benefit to many people."

"When I first met Sarah, it didn't take me long to figure out that she was a yogini of relentless curiosity and great depth. In Insight Yoga, she lets the reader into her thinking, her practice and her life in a way that both inspires and instructs. Insight Yoga is destined to become a classic."

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About Sarah Powers

Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga and Buddhism into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of long held poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with a flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and alignment based teachings.

Her Buddhist training in Insight Meditation includes many retreats with Spirit Rock trained teachers, time spent in a Monastery in Burma, and a dharma teacher training with Bhante Gunaratana. She has also sat a number of Zen and Chan retreats. Her main influence for the last 7 years has been the Dzogchen teacher, Tsoknyi Rinpoche.

She teaches retreats with her husband Ty, and together they home school their teenage daughter, Imani Jade. They live in Marin, CA. For more information on Sarah, go to www.sarahpowers.com.

You may also enjoy our special interview with Sarah: Sarah Powers on Insight Yoga and a Complete Path.