Destiny: Keith Lowenstein, Yoga: Ancient Path to Self-Awareness

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

A detailed guide to the breath-focused meditation practice of Kriya yoga for spiritual growth, inner stillness, and self-realization

• Explains the basic techniques of the practice, detailing proper posture, breathwork exercises (pranayama), bandhas, third-eye gazing, and the use of mantra

• Presents advanced, yet simple, techniques that accelerate a contemplative practice by micro-modulations related to posture, respiration, visualization, and sound

• Includes wisdom from the author’s teacher Ganesh Baba on the importance of the spine in Kriya yoga and the Cycle of Synthesis, a model of the human experience

Kriya yoga is an ancient meditation technique that focuses on breathing and the spine to unlock deep states of awareness, self-realization, and spiritual growth. Kriya can provide a fast path to awakening, yet its practice has been shrouded in secrecy, passed only from master to initiate for millennia.

Introduced into Kriya 40 years ago, Keith Lowenstein, M.D., offers an accessible yet detailed guide to Kriya yoga. He explains the basic techniques of the practice step by step, detailing proper posture, breathwork exercises (pranayama), visualization practices, and mantra. He reveals how Kriya is a scientific art--if practiced consistently, it will allow you to quickly enter deep states of meditation and ultimately experience inner stillness. He also explores how the practice of Kriya leads to healing and the development of compassion and the freeing joy of the union of Nature and Spirit.

Sharing the wisdom of his Kriya yoga teacher Ganesh Baba, the author adds a detailed understanding of anatomy, especially the importance of the spine in Kriya yoga and energy flow. The author explores Ganesh Baba’s teachings on spirit-infused science and the integration of Vedic philosophy, quantum mechanics, prana, and spiritualization illustrated in the Cycle of Synthesis. He also discusses the relationship between the exercises of Kriya yoga and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras as well as teachings from his other teachers, including Paramahansa Hariharananda.

With this guide, you will gain an understanding not only of the practice of Kriya yoga but also of the spiritual wealth it brings, including the ultimate self-realization of non-dual reality.

Keith G. Lowenstein, M.D., is board certified in psychiatry and integrative medicine. He began his study of the mind-body interface in 1971 with training in transcendental meditation and in 1980 began his training in Kriya yoga with Ganesh Baba. He maintains an integrative mental health private practice in Portland, Oregon. Andrea J. Lett, M.A., is a body-mind wellness practitioner with 20 years’ experience practicing and teaching meditation and yoga. An award-winning writer, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

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0:38.0	I'm really kind of excited to introduce today's program.
0:42.0	Of all the exercises that come out from the ancient past, Hindu, India, Yoga is one of the most profound in so many ways.
0:52.0	And as an ancient history buff and somebody who studies ancient cultures, although Yoga is considered about 5,000 years old, they don't really know how old it is.
1:06.0	And it really goes back to prehistory.
1:10.0	And it was probably picked up in some scrolls or something and translated into sutras, which are or Vedic scriptures, which are, you know, translatable across the board.
1:24.0	But whoever developed Yoga understood human physiology on a cellular level.
1:33.0	And there isn't very many exercises today that go to that level.
1:38.0	In fact, I can't think of any that are as profound as the technique of yoga positions.
1:47.0	And I've been practicing yoga probably about over 20 years.
1:54.0	And I have found it to be one of the most profound exercises that is so simple to do.
2:02.0	And yet provides so many benefits.
2:07.0	It's again, it drills down into the cellular level.
2:12.0	It actually releases hormones.
2:15.0	It actually can heal muscular and skeletal issues.
2:20.0	And it's really, and this is what makes it so fascinating these techniques like yoga and like meditation.
2:29.0	What makes it so unique is it is a full body, mind, and spirit process.
2:37.0	And so whoever invented it, whoever came across with the technique, understood the human condition on multiple levels.
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