Gong Therapy: Sound Healing and Yoga is a comprehensive book on using the gong and the practices of yoga to create a therapeutic environment and transformational experience for physical, mental and spiritual excellence. Written for sound healers, yoga teachers, gong players, and therapists, this book gives you the tools and information to conduct one-on-one private sessions as well as guidelines for using the gong as a therapeutic instrument in a group setting. Gong Therapy: Sound Healing and Yoga includes these topics: -The Basis of Sound Healing and Yoga Therapy -How to Structure a Gong Therapy Session -How to Play the Gong Therapeutically -Preparing the Gong Therapy Environment -Client Assessment and Development of a Therapy Session -Considerations for Selecting and Using Gongs -Using Mudras, Mantras, and Pranayamas Therapeutically -Guided Meditation and Relaxation for Gong Therapy -Gong Therapy for Groups -Using Gong Therapy with Other Healing Modalities -Gong Therapy as a Profession Mehtab Benton has trained hundreds of gong players and yoga teachers worldwide. He is the originator and author of Gong Yoga: Healing and Enlightenment Through Sound, published in five international editions and translations. His previous book Teaching Gong Yoga is the first book on using yoga practices with the gong, and his DVD course How To Play the Gong is a best-selling video for beginners. A practitioner and teacher of Kundalini Yoga for over 40 years, Mehtab has an educational background in psychology and yoga therapy and is a certified Vedic Astrologer.

Teaching Gong Yoga is the first comprehensive book on using the sound of the Gong to enhance the practices of Yoga, including asana, pranayama, mantra, meditation and relaxation. Gong players, sound healers, yoga teachers, and students will learn how the gong can be used in all types of yoga, including: Kundalini Yoga Hatha Yoga Vinyasa Flow Yoga Ashtanga Yoga Restorative Yoga Prenatal Yoga Children's Yoga Senior's Yoga You will learn the theory and practice for: Constructing and teaching Gong Yoga classes Playing the Gong for the chakras Practicing meditation with the Gong Using gong maps to develop your playing techniques Creating deep relaxation and healing through the Gong Fully illustrated with nearly 100 drawings and 23 tables of information on these and other topics: Asana Sequences with the Gong Sound, Prana and the Five Tattvas Playing the Gong for the Chakras Pranayama Practices and the Gong The Gong, Mantras and the Inner Sounds Mudras and Gong Meditation The Gong and Yoga Nidra ... Plus special yoga practices for gong players and teachers Mehtab is the originator and author of Gong Yoga, the first book on using the gong in the practice of yoga. He has trained hundreds of yoga teachers, therapists and musicians in the art of playing the gong, and created the DVD course How To Play the Gong for Yoga, Meditation and Healing."

This book is a wonderful introduction to all aspects of the gong and the yoga that is associated with it. The interesting history of the gong, its uses in Western and Eastern music, how to play it and the gongs effects on the body's energetic system are all discussed.

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Teaching Gong Yoga is the first comprehensive book on using the sound of the Gong to enhance the practices of Yoga, including asana, pranayama, mantra, meditation and relaxation. Gong players, sound healers, yoga teachers, and students will learn how the gong can be used in all types of yoga, including: Kundalini Yoga - Hatha Yoga - Vinyasa Flow Yoga - Ashtanga Yoga Restorative Yoga - Prenatal Yoga - Children's Yoga - Senior's Yoga You will learn the theory and practice for: - Constructing and teaching Gong Yoga classes - Playing the Gong for the chakras - Practicing meditation with the Gong - Using gong maps to develop your playing techniques - Creating deep relaxation and healing through the Gong Fully illustrated with nearly 100 drawings and 23 tables of information on these and other topics: Asana Sequences with the Gong Sound, Prana and the Five Tattvas Playing the Gong for the Chakras Pranayama Practices and the Gong The Gong, Mantras and the Inner Sounds Mudras and Gong Meditation The Gong and Yoga Nidra ... Plus special yoga practices for gong players and teachers Mehtab is the originator and author of Gong Yoga, the first book on using the gong in the practice of yoga. He has trained hundreds of yoga teachers, therapists and musicians in the art of playing the gong, and created the DVD course How To Play the Gong for Yoga, Meditation and Healing.

From a longtime yoga teacher, this highly visual, broadly informative resource gives serious yoga practitioners a wide-ranging framework that will enrich their practice. As any yoga student or teacher knows, there’s more to yoga than Downward Dog. Meta Chaya Hirschl’s immersive guide offers a complete vision of yoga, from its historical and spiritual roots to modern practice. Whether you are a novice yogi or an experienced instructor, Vital Yoga will help you unlock yoga’s full potential—and your own. Focusing on the traditional eight limbs of yoga, Hirschl covers a wide range of essential topics in three sections: Before the Mat, On the Mat, and Into the World. In Before the Mat, you’ll learn about the history and philosophy of yoga, with fresh insights into: • Fundamental texts like the Bhagavad Gita • The role of vibration in yogic practice • Mantras for everything from health to job hunting In On the Mat, you’ll find practical instructions for every aspect of yoga, including: • Breathing consciously to guide your vital energies • Meditating to master and heighten your senses • Posing with intention, strength, and balance And finally, you’ll go Into the World. For Hirschl, the true benefits of yoga come not from perfect poses, but from using yoga every day to help yourself and others—so she covers how you can improve your confidence, health, and even your sex life with yoga, and how you can teach others to do the same. Throughout, Vital Yoga invites you to delve into the heart of yoga with derivations of Sanskrit terms, “stealth” yoga practices you can do anywhere, wisdom from the great sages, and accounts by contemporary yogis. Its goal is to help you connect to your inner self, transcend fear and attachment to the stresses of life, and achieve bliss—and when you’ve achieved it, you’ll be able to share it.

Sometimes hopes, goals and dreams get lost in a mire of anxiety and depression after a traumatic experience. Now, thanks to groundbreaking Blooming Again, you can strengthen your resiliency and thrive again. Renowned psychologist Darlene Powell Garlington explores the challenges everyone faces in life that lead to feelings of devastation and how to move beyond them. Using provocative self-inventories, her own personal trauma and her private practice experience, Dr. Darlene takes you through the process of building individual, family and community resiliency. Written with sensitivity and practicality, Blooming Again addresses the mind, body and spirit interconnectedness and uses an integrative health approach that challenges the reader to explore the sometimes tough, sometimes unspoken questions of the meaning of life during times of pain and suffering. Proven principles, skills and techniques will help you recover, heal and thrive after a crisis through everyday interactions that help you express positive feelings, communicate more effectively, resolve conflicts and rely on God. You will be inspired and motivated to find and fulfill the lesson and purpose for your experience by gaining insight, awareness and understanding, which lead to the courage and self-knowledge it takes to move beyond pain, rebuild a loving family and establish a new normal filled with peace and joy again.