NEW RELEASE:

The Sivananda Beginners Guide to Yoga

A detailed introduction to yoga postures, breathing and relaxation.

Practical lessons for beginners and newcomers.

By the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres.

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NEW RELEASE:

The Sivananda Book of Meditation

This book offers a twelfe-step guide to the practice of meditation and shows you how to make it a part of your everyday routine. It is geared to beginners and to those already experienced in the art of meditation. Whatever your level, this inspiring book will help you to attain a state of profound clarity and serenity that will change your life.

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NEW RELEASE:

The Yoga Cook Book

The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres

Vegetarian Food for Body & Mind

The teachings of Yoga advocate a vegetarian diet with special emphasis on foods that bring peace to body, mind and spirit. The Yoga Cookbook makes this health-giving yogic diet available to everyone.

The easy-to-follow recipes use pure, wholesome foods that increase vitality, energy, health and joy. The book offers advice on the basic ingredients and suggests ways of food-combining – what to eat together, and what to keep apart. Attractive and simple to use, The Yoga Cookbook is the classic guide to a healthy, healing diet.
• The first international illustrated book on yogic cooking
• Food from all over the world for every time of day
• Wheat-free recipes and guidance for vegans
• Recipes developed by the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres
• Illustrated throughout with specially commissioned photographs

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Yoga@ Home CD

The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres

This CD offers an ideal opportunity to keep up your yoga practice at home. It consists of a 11/4 hour class taught by Swami Krishnadevananda, director of the London Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre. He guides you gently through the basic postures, breathing and relaxation techniques of a regular Sivananda open class. The instructions are very clear and precise and the CD includes a beautiful 12-page booklet with photographs of Swami Vishnudevananda taken in 1954 when he was a young Swami in Rishikesh, India.

1. Starting Prayer: Gajananam, 2. Kapalabhati (Cleansing Breath), 3. Anuloma Viloma (Alternate Nostril Breathing), 4. Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutaion), 5. Leg Raises, 6. Sirshasana (Headstand), 7. Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand), 8. Halasana (Plough), Matsyasana (Fish), 10. Sethu Bhandasana (Bridge), 11. Pashimotasana (Forward Bend), 12. Incline Plane, 13 Bhujangasana (Cobra), 14. Salabhasana (Locust), 15. Dhanurasana (Bow), 16. Ardha Matsyendrasana (Half Spinal Twist), 17. Kakasana (Crow), 18. Pada Hasthasana (Standing Forward Bend), 19. Trikonasana (Triangel), 20. Final relaxation, 21. Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra

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Sivananda Kirtan CD  

Spiritual chants for daily meditation

This new CD contains some of the favourite bhajans of Swami Vishnudevananda. At the beginning and end of the CD you can hear the original voice of Swami Sivananda which connects you directly to the spirit of this great yogi. The CD includes the Kirtans “Chidanand”, “Jai Guru”, “Rama Rama”, “Deva Deva Sivananda”, “Raghu Pati Raghava” and “Bhajo Radhe Krishna”. The CD was recorded in Puna, India.

Vocals: Swamis and teachers of the Sivananda Centres.
With classical Indian instrumental accompaniment.

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Yoga Chants of India CD

The most beautiful Kirtans of the Sivananda Yoga Centres.

The chanting of mantras has a calming and elevating effect on the mind and forms an important part of Bhakti Yoga (the yoga of devotion). This beautiful CD contains the Gajananam Slokas, Jaya Ganesha Daily Chants, Maha Mrtyunjaya Mantra and Arati. The opening of the Jaya Ganesha Kirtan presents historical recordings by Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda.

Vocals: Swamis and teachers of the Sivananda Centres.
With classical Indian instrumental accompaniment.

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The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga

by Swami Vishnudevananda  

World renowned treatise on yoga and its practice, the book provides a complete training programme for tapping yoga’s power to relax and rejuvenate the mind; to improve concentration, to prevent illness and to increase physical strength and flexibility.

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The New Book of Yoga 

This complete step-by-step guide contains clear, comprehensive, easy-to-follow instructions plus authoritative teaching on diet, meditation and relaxation. Includes full colour photographs and diagrams. It has now been reformated with a modern design and full colour pictures throughout. The book has sold over 800,000 copies and it is considered the most beautiful book of Yoga worldwide.

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Yoga Mind & Body

This is a well illustrated introduction to yoga. Beautiful step-by-step photographic sequences take the reader through both basic and more advanced postures, with chapters on diet, positive thinking, meditation and relaxation. It includes exceptionally detailed instructions with full explanation of the benefits of the asanas and breathing techniques.

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Mangalam publication.

Commentary by Swami Durgananda,

The Raja Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Maharishi are a complete manual for the study and control of ones own thoughts. It is a classical scripture of yoga and a holistic guideline for the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of meditation as well as a precious source for the study of the spiritual psychology of yoga. Swami Durgananda is Yoga Acharya for Europe, and one of the most senior disciples of Swami Vishnudevananda.

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