Advanced Spiritual Intimacy

Author : Stuart Sovatsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620552780

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Advanced Spiritual Intimacy by Stuart Sovatsky Pdf

A practical guide for both individuals and couples to transform sexual energy into spiritual and erotic fulfillment • Explains how to awaken advanced stages of sexual development for spiritual intimacy and deep erotic satisfaction • Includes illustrated instructions for exercises and techniques based on yoga, kundalini, breathing practices, mantra chanting, and chakra meditation • Explores how this practice can deepen a life partnership, enhance creativity, heal emotional scars, and awaken new understandings of gender Sexual development does not end in adolescence. There are advanced stages of glandular, emotional, and erotic development based in the lifelong “puberty of the spine.” Known in India as kundalini awakening, these stages form the energetic basis of all yoga forms and deeper erotic aspirations. They present an opportunity for couples and individuals to explore the consciousness-expanding abilities of sexual energy as both spirituality and sexuality transform into what Michel Foucault called ars erotica, far beyond the Freudian scientia sexualis sexuality of the Western world. Offering a guide to the advanced stages of human sexuality and a passionately infused tantric yoga practice, Stuart Sovatsky explains how to awaken the complete spinal puberty, resulting in spiritual intimacy and orgasmic pineal maturity that far surpasses the gratifications of modern sexuality. With illustrated instructions, he reveals flow-yoga asanas, mantras, and devotional breathing practices for solo kundalini yoga as well as couples’ yoga practices and chakra meditations to awaken the heart and the divinely eroticized mind. He shares inspiring stories from those on this path about ever-deepening life partnerships, enriched family life, enhanced personal creativity, profound new understandings of conception, masculinity, femininity, and gender itself as well as healing emotional scars of romantic breakups and sexual abuse. Sovatsky shows that by transcending conventional Western sexuality and returning to the ars erotica beliefs of ancient India, we can harness the divine energy--glimpsed for only an instant by most people--at the heart of all erotic yearning.

Author : Markus Ray (co-author)
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681399324

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Spiritual Intimacy-What You Really Want with A Mate by Markus Ray (co-author) Pdf

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Author : Stuart Sovatsky
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0892818301

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Eros, Consciousness, and Kundalini by Stuart Sovatsky Pdf

In this extraordinary celebration of the erotic, Dr. Stuart Sovatsky introduces us to the Tantric art of sexual sublimation. Exercises based on yoga, kundalini, and chakra meditation help readers learn to harness the divine energy at the heart of all erotic yearning, while exploring the intimate relationship between spirituality and sexuality.

Author : Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D.
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781583943854

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Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy by Hunter Beaumont, Ph.D. Pdf

Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy collects a series of lectures presented by psychologist Hunter Beaumont over a 10-year period. Covering such themes as relationships, family, healing, grief, mourning, and death, the book features case stories that demonstrate clients’ healing experiences. Practicing in Germany for the past 30 years, Hunter Beaumont has had the unique experience of working with World War II and Holocaust survivors and their descendants. Through this work he discovered that healing requires attending to the soul, a process he describes as an “inner ‘felt sense’ and common, everyday dimension of experience.” Demonstrating how therapists can integrate this more spiritual approach into their practices, Beaumont highlights the particular successes of the innovative family constellations therapy. Developed by German psychologist Bert Hellinger and expanded by Beaumont and others, this therapy takes place in a group setting, with group members standing in for family members or others involved in the client’s problem. A crucial part of Beaumont’s spiritual psychotherapy practice, this method has helped many of his clients release and resolve profound tensions, and offers hope to readers recovering from trauma or PTSD, or simply trying to navigate life’s difficulties.

Author : Greg Bogart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620553855

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In the Company of Sages by Greg Bogart Pdf

Explains how to successfully navigate the process of initiation, instruction, testing, and self-transformation under the guidance of a spiritual teacher • Explores how to approach a teacher for initiation and the importance of gauging your inner response and feeling of trust and resonance with the teacher • Discusses the process of separating from a spiritual teacher and how to negotiate the emotional conflicts that can arise at this stage • Shares the author's experiences with several remarkable teachers and details lessons learned through testing and confronting doubts and fears In the search for inner awakening and self-realization, a spiritual mentor can be key to advancement. Yet the process of finding an authentic spiritual teacher who resonates with you can be daunting, especially for anyone who has had a negative experience with a guide. Exploring the emotional nuances of mentoring relationships, Greg Bogart details the path of spiritual apprenticeship: the process of aligning with a teacher, establishing a dynamic spiritual practice, and the later stages of separation and finding the teacher within. The author explores the importance of gauging your inner response and feeling of trust and resonance with a teacher and your readiness to receive initiation. He explains how the teacher-student relationship affects the student’s state of consciousness over time and how most students eventually need to become independent from their spiritual guides. Describing emotional conflicts that can arise at this stage, he shows how wise teachers accept our need to separate and graduate while immature teachers try to thwart and control us. Openly sharing his own personal journey, the author illustrates the lasting resonance of his encounters with several provocative spiritual mentors, including Swami Muktananda and Dane Rudhyar. He discusses how some fierce teachers practice "crazy wisdom" to confront our doubts, fears, and fixations and to activate our dormant potentials. Examining practices in Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist Yoga, Sufism, and Jewish and Christian mysticism, he also explores the deeper mystical aspects of the guru-student relationship. The author shows how, ultimately, initiation leads the spiritual seeker to find the teacher within and how this can naturally lead to teaching others. Describing nine stages of the spiritual seeker’s journey, the author affirms that a direct path to self-liberation is still attainable through initiation and instruction in the company of sages.

Author : Peter-Damian Belisle
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814627730

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The Privilege of Love by Peter-Damian Belisle Pdf

The Privilege of Love: Camaldolese Benedictine Spirituality is a collection of essays by Camaldolese monks, nuns, and oblates. After an introduction by Michael Downey and an overview chapter on Camaldolese Benedictine history and spirituality, three chapters center on the Benedictine aspects of spirituality, such as liturgy, lectio divina, and Word/Wisdom of God. The book focuses on Camaldolese sources, eremitical/cenobitical dialectic, and solitude, followed by chapters on Camaldolese ecumenical and interreligious involvement, as well as oblate spirituality. The concluding chapter comments on Camaldolese Benedictine spirituality in a post-Vatican II context.

Author : Swami Adi Narayan
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781460238257

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The Beloved by Swami Adi Narayan Pdf

The Beloved: A Song of Eternal Love is written in the tradition of the greatest poetic mystics, from Hafiz to Walt Whitman. This collection of poems to the Beloved can apply to a beloved human, or a divine Beloved accessed through meditation and contemplative practices. Crying out to this unnamed Beloved, Swami Adi Narayan accesses the universal voice of humanity and its desperate cries for love. Swami Adi Narayan enjoins us on his journey into his interior of most deep and sacred yearnings to become love realized through the longing, the trials and suffering, joys, bliss and ecstasy that only true love can offer, taking one into the heart of the Divine itself. This book will move you with its openhearted pronouncements of undying love that cuts across all boundaries of differing cultures and religions, uniting mankind in his one pure aspiration and longing for union with the Beloved....

Author : Chris Cole
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781941758236

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The Body of Chris by Chris Cole Pdf

Finalist in Religious Non-Fiction and Spirituality for 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Struggling with lifelong disordered eating and adolescent addiction, Chris Cole had his first psychotic episode at the age of eighteen, suddenly believing he was the Second Coming of Christ. He lost his identity and tried to perform miracles and was ultimately arrested in the lobby of his college dormitory—all while convinced he was being taken to his crucifixion. Even when sanity returned, he could not help but contemplate God's involvement. For years, Chris danced with delusion, but he eventually surrendered to his humanity and learned to embrace reality. The Body of Chris explores mental illness—from bipolar disorder to substance use to binge eating—in one man’s search for salvation. From his oldest wounds to his renewed spirituality, author Chris Cole tells his story with unflinching honesty in hopes of reaching people who suffer from mental illness and those who love them.

Author : Serge Beddington-Behrens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781644110461

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Gateways to the Soul by Serge Beddington-Behrens Pdf

A guide on how to live more soulfully and, in so doing, transform yourself and the planet • Explores the connections between healing your personal wounds and healing the planet • Explains how embracing unitive qualities such as love, friendship, joy, courage, forgiveness, and truth, as well as facing your Shadow sides and confronting world evil, enables you to move through important gateways leading to soul • Offers a variety of transpersonal exercises, meditations, and guided visualizations Humanity is in a great crisis of soul today, but there is also much good will around. As a species, we are challenged to start embracing a new story, one that enables us to be less greedy and materialistic and to espouse peace not war, kindness not cruelty, and heart as opposed to indifference. What we need is to bring more soul into the world. In this guide about engaging in inner work to bring change into the world, Dr. Serge Beddington-Behrens reveals how the healing of our personal wounds combined with the growing of our soul life leads us directly to the addressing of world problems. Sharing inspirational stories from his own personal journey of becoming a transpersonal psychotherapist, shaman, and activist, he shows you how, by transforming your inner world, you begin creating important positive ripples that reverberate around all areas of your outer one. The exercises and meditations he has devised will not only help you heal and become more fully human but also enable you to bring a very different kind of awareness--a sacred awareness--into all areas of your everyday life. Not only will this enable you to experience more joy and meaning as you increasingly disconnect from the clutches of the system, but you will also find yourself opening your heart, reclaiming your personal power, bringing in new myths for humanity to live by, and gradually shifting away from being part of the problems in the world to becoming a core part of their solution.

Author : Vitor Jose F. Rodrigues
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781527591707

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Experiential Consciousness and the Nature of Human Identity by Vitor Jose F. Rodrigues Pdf

Consciousness is hard to bring to the laboratory as it confronts us with a classic dilemma: can a mind observe itself? However, who, then, is observing the observer? Without experiential awareness, culture, the arts, science, and philosophy would not make sense. Would it make sense if refrigerators were to produce a “refrigerator culture” without the experience of freezing food? Virtually all human culture is destined to provide conscious experiences. This volume provides a rich array of views on human nature and the way it shows up in the strange land of human identity.

Author : Purushottama Bilimoria,Aleksandra Wenta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000084214

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Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems by Purushottama Bilimoria,Aleksandra Wenta Pdf

A stimulating account of the wide range of approaches towards conceptualising emotions in classical Indian philosophical–religious traditions, such as those of the Upanishads, Vaishnava Tantrism, Bhakti movement, Jainism, Buddhism, Yoga, Shaivism, and aesthetics, this volume analyses the definition and validity of emotions in the construction of

Author : Katie Silcox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781582704739

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Healthy Happy Sexy by Katie Silcox Pdf

A Ayurvedic yoga teacher helps women live a more healthful, radiant life through a series of mental and physical exercises and meditations as well as natural remedies for a wide range of health and beauty needs. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Donald R. Harvey
Publisher : Old Tappan, N.J. : F.H. Revell
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0800753984

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The Spiritually Intimate Marriage by Donald R. Harvey Pdf

Author : Simon Chokoisky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781620552889

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Sex, Love, and Dharma by Simon Chokoisky Pdf

Discover your dharma type and prepare your body, mind, and spirit to attract and build a lifelong union with your soul mate • Explores how the dharma types align in relationships, giving quick and simple insights into which dharma pairings work and which ones need work • Details methods for attracting a mate as well as practical techniques for improving your sex life, including the best time to have sex during the day • Provides self-tests to determine your dharma type and outlines unique ayurvedic diet, exercise, detox, and lifestyle tips for better health and sex appeal The people of ancient India understood that most humans are incomplete without an intimate partner, a soul mate to share life’s journey. Drawing upon astrology, Ayurveda, and dharma type--your personality and spiritual purpose archetype--they developed detailed systems to analyze physical, emotional, and spiritual compatibility between people. This analysis encouraged joyous relationships by revealing the sexual compatibility of a couple, the innate relationship conflicts they face, and their potential for financial success together. In this way, couples were able to distinguish biological attraction from long-term compatibility, lust from love, and soul mates from playmates. Sharing ancient Vedic secrets of sex, love, health, and dharma, Simon Chokoisky explains how to prepare your mind, body, and spirit for the right partner and how to determine if a potential mate is a good match for your unique chemistry. He provides self-tests to determine your dharma type and outlines unique ayurvedic diet, exercise, detox, and lifestyle tips for each type to reclaim your health and vitality and, by doing so, your sexiness. He explores how the dharma types align in relationships to create harmony or disharmony, giving quick and simple insights about which dharma pairings work and which ones need work. Highlighting the skills inherent to each dharma type, he makes suggestions on how to improve day-to-day relationships for personal and financial benefit and to build lifelong romance that grows into a spiritual union. Moving to the bedroom, the author details methods for attracting a mate as well as practical techniques for improving your sex life, including the best time to have sex during the day and month. Showing how knowing who you are will help you find your right mate, and keep away those unsuitable for you, Chokoisky explains how living your dharma helps you flow with nature in a way that makes life and your relationships more fulfilling.

Author : Paul Neil Abramowitz
Publisher : Digital on Demand
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780620854979

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Sexed by Paul Neil Abramowitz Pdf

Sexed (Sex’d) - Hardwired by Nature –Evolving by Choice is a first of a kind book, about the sexual hardwiring of the heterosexual male. While shining a spotlight on some of the predicaments of heterosexual male sexuality, it takes a deep archeological dive into the meeting place of sex, consciousness, biology and intimacy .In so doing it offers a granular look at the impact of our sexual hardwiring on our lived experience as men, far beyond comedy and caricature or the superficial conversations society has thus far offered us. Sexed – offered both as a reference for therapists and a personal study guide for the curious and evolving, and brings the reader closer to a more crystalized sense of sexual self-agency, access to intimacy and the opportunity to continue to bring the best possible version of himself to his relationship and the world. Of course women readers can benefit too by gaining insight into the development and inner workings of the heterosexual man’s mind and a broader understanding as to why the hardwiring and its impact has proven to be somewhat trans historical and transcultural .