Sacred Body

Author : Ananda Apfelbaum
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781440650437

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Thai Massage by Ananda Apfelbaum Pdf

Thai Massage, Sacred Bodywork is a complete guide to an ancient practice that benefits body, mind, and spirit. Interest in Thai massage has been growing rapidly. This is no surprise given its unique multifaceted approach to the body. Thai massage combines acupressure, stretching, reflexology, assisted yoga postures, herbal compresses, prayer and meditation. It benefits everyone. Sometimes called the "lazy person's yoga", Thai massage stretches and relaxes the muscles, increases the joints' range of motion, and balances energy flow throughout the body. Thai Massage, Sacred Bodywork provides fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions which enable the reader to use this integrative and interactive therapy with a partner at home or with a client. The book explains the historical and philosophical background of Thai massage as well as its religious origins. Throughout the book, Ananda always reminds us of the deeper meaning of this sacred modality—compassion in action. A must for all those interested in the healing arts.

Author : James W. Watts,Yohan Yoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1781798850

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Books As Bodies and As Sacred Beings by James W. Watts,Yohan Yoo Pdf

In this volume an international team of scholars address the theme of books as sacred beings from an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. Yet, as a group, they meld to engage and advance previous research to solidify the conclusion that human cultures, especially religious groups, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. The studies collected here not only increase the range of examples of this phenomenon. They also show the wide variety of ways in which the identity of books, bodies and beings gets both ritualized and theorized. The articles are bracketed by an introduction to the collection, and then by a concluding essay that extrapolates the theme of books as sacred beings on a more general level.

Author : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781401929473

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Awakening the Sacred Body by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Pdf

The power of the breath has been recognized for millennia as an integral part of health and well-being. In Awakening the Sacred Body, teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche makes accessible the ancient art of Tibetan breath and movement practices. In clear, easy-to-understand language, he outlines the theory and processes of two powerful meditations—the Nine Breathings of Purification and the Tsa Lung movements—that can help you change your relationship to yourself, to others, and to the world. The simple methods presented in Awakening the Sacred Body and in the accompanying online video focus on clearing and opening your energetic centers to allow the natural human qualities of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity to arise. When sadness releases, joy is able to arise. When anger releases, love becomes available. When prejudice releases, equanimity prevails. And when lack of kindness ceases, compassion is present.These practices, which focus the mind and breath together while performing specific body movements, will help you discover your inner wisdom and express your greatest potential.

Author : Queen Afua
Publisher : One World
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780307559517

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Sacred Woman by Queen Afua Pdf

The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.

Author : Ramesh Bjonnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1881717151

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Sacred Body, Sacred Spirit by Ramesh Bjonnes Pdf

Sacred Body, Sacred Spirit is a book about transforming our ordinary lives into a sacred experience. You will be introduced to Tantra as the essence of yogic practice and philosophy. Known by the ancient yogis as a powerful conduit for personal transformation, Tantra holds the secret to turning our longings into love and our feelings of separation into spiritual union. Generally known in the West as "the yoga of sex," in this book, you will encounter a more integral form of Tantra. Some yogis call this ancient wisdom "the yoga of everything." Because, Tantric yoga is about seeing and realizing that everything we do can become a sacred, spiritual act. This form of alchemical spirituality is insightfully and poetically articulated in this book by Ramesh Bjonnes, a popular yoga blogger, workshop leader and cofounder of the Prama Institute. "An insightful, balanced approach to the frequently misunderstood pursuit of spiritual growth and personal well-being." --Kirkus Review "This book is a source that any person, lay or scholar, will benefit from reading, because here is a practitioner whose fine mind reaches into his heart, converging one into the other. Bjonnes is now an important voice for the study of living Tantra." Douglas Brooks, Professor of Religion, Rochester University, author of Auspicious Wisdom "The writings of Ramesh Bjonnes cut right to the core of the spiritual journey. His essays enter through my mind and then travel to my heart, where they blossom like beautiful flowers of love and truth." Jai Uttal, Grammy-nominated world musician "Sacred Body, Sacred Spirit is an inspiring and provocative book. These essays have been among the most consistently popular ever on our website." Bob Weisenberg, Associate Publisher, Elephant Journal "

Author : Monica Canducci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798515301446

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The Sacred Body by Monica Canducci Pdf

Are you dealing with life challenges, transitions, or symptoms preventing you from unlocking your inner resources and taking the steps necessary for the change you desire? Are you wondering how to improve your connection with your body and deal with your inner cycles? Do you feel called to create a better world and live in harmony with Nature but you don't know how? Did you ever feel that there is much more of yourself to express, but you don't have the energy or the clarity you need to take action and embrace transformation? The Sacred Body is a call to understand the connections between women's physiology, Nature's elements and cycles, and the many challenges women face in our world and daily life. It is addressed to women but recommended to anybody who wants to embody Feminine Wholeness. Grounded in both science and the fascinating world of ancient knowledge, it gives you practical tools to support you in embracing a paradigm shift and fully expressing your feminine through your body, so you can thrive, shine, and live the life you want, no matter your age. Through this book you will understand how to master Nature's elements and cycles from within to overcome those limitations caused by hormonal and physiological elements or social conditionings, and discover precious secrets hidden within life's transitions and stages, including perimenopause and menopause. Moreover, you will become aware of how, together, we can create a functional alternative to the patriarchal model in a peaceful, assertive and constructive way, and build a better world - based on respect and the embodiment of our uniqueness - from the inside out.

Author : Ariel Glucklich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199839490

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Sacred Pain by Ariel Glucklich Pdf

Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet? In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological explanations, Glucklich approaches sacred pain from the perspective of the practitioner to fully examine the psychological and spiritual effects of self-hurting. He discusses the scientific understanding of pain, drawing on research in fields such as neuropsychology and neurology. He also ranges over a broad spectrum of historical and cultural contexts, showing the many ways mystics, saints, pilgrims, mourners, shamans, Taoists, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, and indeed members of virtually every religion have used pain to achieve a greater identification with God. He examines how pain has served as a punishment for sin, a cure for disease, a weapon against the body and its desires, or a means by which the ego may be transcended and spiritual sickness healed. "When pain transgresses the limits," the Muslim mystic Mizra Asadullah Ghalib is quoted as saying, "it becomes medicine." Based on extensive research and written with both empathy and critical insight, Sacred Pain explores the uncharted inner terrain of self-hurting and reveals how meaningful suffering has been used to heal the human spirit.

Author : Robert E. Cox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594777561

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Creating the Soul Body by Robert E. Cox Pdf

Outlines the principles and mechanics of the soul body, the spiritual vehicle that enables individual consciousness to survive the body’s death • Shows that the ancient Vedic, Egyptian, Hebraic, and Pythagorean traditions shared and understood this spiritual practice • Reveals modern science as only now awakening to this ancient sacred science Ancient peoples the world over understood that individual consciousness is rooted in a universal field of consciousness and is therefore eternal, surviving the passing of the physical body. They engaged in spiritual practices to make that transition maximally auspicious. These practices can be described as a kind of alchemy, in which base elements are discarded and higher levels of consciousness are realized. The result is the creation of a vehicle, a soul body, that carries consciousness beyond physical death. These spiritual preparations are symbolized in the Vedic, Egyptian, and Hebraic traditions as a divine stairway or ladder, a step-by-step path of ascent in which the practitioner raises consciousness by degrees until it comes to rest in the bosom of the infinite, thereby becoming “immortal.” This spiritual process explains the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, for example, whose reincarnation is confirmed in infancy through physical and spiritual signs, indicating that the consciousness has been carried from one lifetime to the next. In Creating the Soul Body, Robert Cox maps the spiritual journey of consciousness behind this sacred science of immortality and reveals the practice of creating a soul body in detail. He also shows that this ancient spiritual science resembles advanced theories of modern science, such as wave and particle theory and the unified field theory, and reveals that modern science is only now awakening to this ancient science of “immortality.”

Author : Dawn Marie Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135860042

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Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100–1389 by Dawn Marie Hayes Pdf

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions, this book identifies the need to consider non-devotional uses of churches in the Middle Ages. Dawn Marie Hayes examines idealized visions of medieval sacred places in contrast with the mundane and profane uses of these buildings. She argues that by the later Middle Ages-as loyalties were torn by emerging political, economic, and social groups-the Church suffered a loss of security that was reflected in the uses of sacred spaces, which became more restricted as identities shifted and Europeans ordered the ambiguity of the medieval world.

Author : Jelena Bogdanovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351359603

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Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium by Jelena Bogdanovic Pdf

Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium seeks to reveal Christian understanding of the body and sacred space in the medieval Mediterranean. Case studies examine encounters with the holy through the perspective of the human body and sensory dimensions of sacred space, and discuss the dynamics of perception when experiencing what was constructed, represented, and understood as sacred. The comparative analysis investigates viewers’ recognitions of the sacred in specific locations or segments of space with an emphasis on the experiential and conceptual relationships between sacred spaces and human bodies. This volume thus reassesses the empowering aspects of space, time, and human agency in religious contexts. By focusing on investigations of human endeavors towards experiential and visual expressions that shape perceptions of holiness, this study ultimately aims to present a better understanding of the corporeality of sacred art and architecture. The research points to how early Christians and Byzantines teleologically viewed the divine source of the sacred in terms of its ability to bring together – but never fully dissolve – the distinctions between the human and divine realms. The revealed mechanisms of iconic perception and noetic contemplation have the potential to shape knowledge of the meanings of the sacred as well as to improve our understanding of the liminality of the profane and the sacred.

Author : Amy Blackthorn
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633411531

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Sacred Smoke by Amy Blackthorn Pdf

A guide to using smoke and scents to create a positive, healing home for you and your family. Aromatherapist and long-time herbalist Amy Blackthorn offers the essential tools for creating sacred space—a safe space free of negative energies—using herbs, incense, smoke, and other practices. “No matter your faith,” writes Amy Blackthorn, “practicing with sacred smoke is a powerful way to make your intentions known and support change in your life. . . . An argument between friends can be hashed out over calming lavender smoke. A home can find prosperity in the embrace of burning clove powder. Space can be consecrated with the grace and devotional power of cedar. Every ritual or occasion can be tailored to the language of scent.” Written in an accessible style, free of jargon, Sacred Smoke has everything you need to know to get started on your practice of purification and cleansing, including: The importance of self-care How to keep your home and family safe How to protect your home while you are away Adding crystals to your cleansing practice Using essential herbs and recipes for creating cleansing smoke Sacred Smoke is an essential guide for anyone seeking to practice the ritual use of cleansing and clearing to protect and heal themselves, their home, and their family.

Author : Nicola Laneri
Publisher : Materiality and Religion in An
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 178925518X

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The Sacred Body by Nicola Laneri Pdf

Investigates regional roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics, empasising the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of human death.

Author : Sergio Bertelli,R. Burr Litchfield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271041391

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The King's Body by Sergio Bertelli,R. Burr Litchfield Pdf

The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.

Author : Sarah Trimmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555050913

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Sacred history, selected from the Scriptures, with annotations and reflections, by mrs. Trimmer by Sarah Trimmer Pdf

Author : Zahava Griss,Rochelle Schieck,Lettie Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0986353981

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Sacred Body Wisdom by Zahava Griss,Rochelle Schieck,Lettie Sullivan Pdf

Say YES to Body Liberation. Your body is your temple-the Sacred home that carries you through your life journey... the only one you have this time around, right? Yet, we often spend life fighting the body, abusing it, and hating ourselves for being seen inside a skin that isn't perfect-sculpted of muscles and fat in just the right proportion, gender correct, smelling nice, no wrinkles, no rolls, no frizz...and on and on. You may know this torture chamber of negative self-talk. And if so, only YOU can stop the war with your body! Flower of Life Press proudly presents Sacred Body Wisdom: Igniting the Flame of Our Divine Humanity-a powerful collection of the voices of change, featuring authors Rochelle Schieck, Zahava Griss, Lettie Sullivan, and Rima Bonario, plus contributions from 16 new paradigm leaders: Jeanne Adwani, Eden Amadora, Lynette Cannon, Dianne Chalifour, Windy Cook, Lainie Love Dalby, Aurora Farber, Elisha Halpin, Shannon Lee, Nadia Munla, Dena Otrin, Bernadette Pleasant, Kimberly Simms, Katie Sullivan, Dr. Mara Sussman, and Patricia Wald-Hopkins. By making peace with your body and treating it with unconditional love and respect, you will discover the heart of your own Sacred Body Wisdom. Say YES to Body Liberation. Say YES to love. Learn more at www.FlowerofLifePress.com