YOGA PHILOSOPHY, TANTRA, KUNDALINI and TAOIST INTERNAL ALCHEMY BOOKS

Yoga can be practised as an exercise for health and wellbeing, but it is also a complete philosophy and way of life.
Behind the physical asanas there is a philosophy of anatomy and theology thousands of years old.
By aligning chakras through body posture, health and psychic powers can be enhanced.
Hindu and also Taoist systems of internal alchemy have evolved from basic yoga practices.

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BEHANAN, Kovoor T. 
Yoga: A Scientific Evaluation

Unabridged reprint of a 1937 edition. The author scientifically investigates philosophy and the physiology of yoga (including the mysterious powers called siddhis that are attributed to the master yogins of the Hindu Tradition. Illustrated. Contents: apparent complexity of Indian culture; Prakriti or nature; Purusha or soul; evolution and its stages; yoga psychology; rebirth; yoga and psychoanalysis and psychic research; postures; varieties of breathing; exercises in concentration.
ISBN0486205053

G+ softback, sewn binding in card wrappers.
$15 C/B
Dover Publications, undated (1970?), xx 270pp.
[#3230 ]





CARRINGTON Hereward   Higher Psychical Development reveals secrets of the Hindu Yogis from the Sanskrit texts and author's experience
VG- small crease top corner of cover $20 C/C Aquarian Press 1978, large paperback 294pp, yoga asana, mantra yoga, kundalini, astral projection, aura, atlantis, karma ISBN 0850301564 [#2087 occult]

CHAKRAVARTI Sri Surath 
Scientific Yoga for the Man of Today
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A study of Hindu Yoga and it's benefits for the spiritual development of the practitioner.
Includes chapter on the Neuro-Physical effects of the meditations.
hindu, india, chakras, yoga philosophy, religion, spirituality

VG softback with sewn binding. Name to first page.
$20 C/B
Ranney publications 1971, xvi 147pp.
[#3812 ]



DAVIS Roy Eugene 
The Way of the Initiate
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A guide to self-realization and cosmic understanding, by a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda.
ISBN0877070121
meditation, occultism, theosophical

VG- softback
$10 C/B
CSA Press 1976 rprint, 144pp
[#3817 ]



DECHANET J M translated by Roland Hindmarsh  
Christian Yoga

An approach to yoga as an aid in contemplation and stillness, but divorced from its Hindu religious overtones so as to fit with Christian devotion and western use. Jean-Marie Dechanet entered Saint-Andrew's abbey as an oblate brother. In his early 40's he was "providentially cured" of his epilepsy and began learning various forms of physical exercises; eventually he discovered hatha yoga, which he subsequently wrote about as well as taught. La Voie du Silence was first published in 1956. The third edition was translated into English in 1960 under the title Christian Yoga, and published that same year. This book is his testament that yoga assisted him not just in his prayer and meditation, but in his whole life as a Christian.

VG+ softback with bookseller stamp to half title.
$25 C/B
Search Press 1978 softcover, vi 196pp with line diagrams of asanas. ISBN 0855321903 [#2456 yoga, spirituality ]



IYENGAR B.K.S.  
Light on Yoga

Yoga Dipika, foreword by one of his pupils, Yehudi Menuhin.
ISBN0041400011
Asanas, bandhas, pranayamas

VG softback, with quality sewn binding and paper. Minor age to the covers.
$20 C/C
Allen and Unwin 1973, 342pp + plates.
[#5659 ]

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JOHNSTON Charles 
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Book of the Spiritual Man
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An interpretation of Patanjali, sutra by sutra.
Written in 1912 and first published in England in 1949.
ISBN0722401299
hindu, indian, yoga, philosophy

G+ softback
$15 C/B
Watkins 1974 revised edition, 127pp.
[#3821 ]



LEEMING Joseph 
Yoga and the Bible
The yoga of the divine word.
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An explanation of vital Bible truths as taught by the perfect spiritual masters of the east.
An introduction to the yoga or spiritual science of the true masters, who teach the path of spiritual attainment that is based upon the word or logos of the Bible.
Shabad Yoga is the highest of the Indian yoga systems. Shabad means divine or inner sound, and refers to the power which in the Bible is called the Word or Logos.
Shabad Yoga is similar to the basic spiritual teachings of the Bible.

VG sewn soft cover
$20 C/B
Radha Soami Satsang Beas 1984, xviii 164pp.
[#4545 ]



MUMFORD Dr. Jonn (aka Swami Anadakapila Saraswati)  A Chakra and Kundalini Workbook third edition revised and expanded
VG+ $18 C/C Llewellyn 1997 soft cover, large 8vo size. xvi 256pp. Includes 8 colour pages of Chakra Energy Cards. Psycho-Spiritual techniques for Helath, Rejuvenation, Psychic Powers and Spiritual Realization. ISBN 1567184731 [# 1749 yoga]

Yogi RAMACHARAKA a.k.a. W W Atkinson


SANNELLA Lee 
The Kundalini Experience
Psychosis or Transcendence?
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Many people have experienced kundalini awakening.
In some cases, the experience involves very disturbing physical and psychological effects.
This book documents numerous case studies to demystify the process and reassure those who experience the traumatic event, and who sometimes fear for their own sanity.
ISBN0941255298
kundalini, chakra, meditation, integral yoga

VG- softback with some cover wear and some pen underlining in the text.
$15 C/B
Integral Publishing 1992, 168pp.
[#3691 ]



SVOBODA Robert E.  Prakruti Your Ayurvedic Constitution
VG name to first page $10 C/B Geocom 1989 softcover, 206pp. ISBN 0945669003 [# 1759 yoga]

TAIMNI I. K. 
The Science of Yoga: The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali
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In Sanskrit with Transliteration in Roman, Translation and Commentary in English.
ISBN0835600238
yoga, hindu, indian, spirituality

VG- softback
$15 C/C
Theosophical Publishing House/ Quest Book 1972, 448pp.
[#3760 ]



VENKATESANANDA Swami 
The Supreme Yoga; Yoga Vasistha
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A new translation of a yoga classic.
Includes Vairagya, Mumuksu Vyavahara. Utpatti, Sthiti, Upasama, Nirvana Prakaranam.
ISBN 0959069003
hindu, indian, philoophy

VG+ hardcover, has been professionally rebound in a cloth case with illustrated covers laid down.
Gilt titled spine.
$45 C/C
Chiltern Yoga Trust 1984 third Australian edition, x 382pp.
[#5362 ]



WOOD Ernest E. 
Practical Yoga, Ancient and Modern
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A translation of Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, interpreted in the light of ancient and modern psychological knowledge and practical experience.
With an introduction by Paul Brunton.
ISBN0879801492
veda, vedic, hindu, yoga philosophy, raja yoga

VG- with name to first page.
$15 C/B
Wilshire Book Company 1973 (reprint of 1948 Dutton edition), 245pp + index.
[#3818 ]




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