Reviews for Healing Yoga: A Guide to Integrating the Chakras with Your Yoga Practice

The average rating for Healing Yoga: A Guide to Integrating the Chakras with Your Yoga Practice based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-15 00:00:00 Mike Taylor This yoga book (in my ever expanding collection!) is one of my favourites. Why? It's a two-in-one book: it's a yoga book, and a book about personality types. I'm not kidding! The type of yoga is "Panchatattva," (a type of Hatha yoga), and it helps yoga students to better understand themselves, and their relationships with others. The author asks the student to observe herself closely and honestly. The "tattva" that you are most attracted to is your dominant "tattva." The tattvas are related to the five chakras, so you can identify yourself with one or more of your dominant tattvas and their related chakras. This isn't as complicated as it sounds. It also isn't (quite) as crazy as it sounds. I'll give you an example: We all know people who are "Akasha" types(related to the Vishuddha chakra, situated at the base of the throat). The Akasha type loves order. They are neat, orderly types who thrive on routines and don't like surprises. They are wonderful at organizing systems in any field - computers, government, business...etc... They always fulfill their obligations, and they are extremely reliable. Know anyone like that? You probably do. And we all have some "Akasha" in us. When I was a kid (I think about grade severn) I organized my parents' basement books in alphabetical order. Then I attached little skicky labels on each book, with the first initial of the author on each..... Very Akasha. Very young librarianish. After you ascertain which is your dominant tattva, you can then go on to find the yoga routine that will help you most. To continue with my Akasha example, the routine to help these orderly types is one that helps these types deal with change. The first pose given is the "Nataraj 1" which is an interesting balance pose that is the symbolic of the ever changing dance of creation. This is a fun yoga book that you can turn to when you find yourself out of balance in different ways. It's colourful, a bit wacky and fun to use.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-26 00:00:00 Carolyn Callan The first 2/3rds of this book were clear, beautifully-put passages that explained all the basics behind yogic philosophy for anyone with a low background in it, and it covered many of the points I learned over my yoga teacher training. However, then he went into yoga and health, where he started to assert unfounded things like doing yoga while menstruating can cause cancer longterm and other things I just can't read and maintain respect for, and that had no evidence or sources to back the "medical" finding on. Iyengar is a very advanced and accomplished yogi with a talent for explaining things in western terms, however in areas like that one his mindset is still very archaic in it's views....