Layne Redmond (1952–2013)

Your chakras-the seven intersections of energy and consciousness located along the length of your spine to the crown of your head-orchestrate all of your thoughts, emotions, and desires. They generate your creativity and connect you to the highest source of your own being, making their purification and balance crucial to your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Now, Layne Redmond brings you Chakra Meditation, the complete program for you to cleanse, balance, and maintain these vital energy centers.

Combining five traditional yogic techniques-visualization, beathing, postures, sacred sounds, and meditation-this 35-year practitioner gives you a safe and effective system to tune your chakra, opening your mind to inner sources of inspiration and personal power. Includes eight beautiful, full-color plates illustrating the chakra yantras (sacred geometric designs) to focus your healing meditations.

Chakra Meditation on CD-Seven complete exercises including the 'Breath of Fire' (kapalbhati) to cleanse the respiratory system, fixed gazing (trataka) to develop sharp concentration, alternate nostril breathing (nadi shodhana) to purify energy channels in the body, and a full, 30-minute charkra purification practice that can be used daily to produce peace of mind, physical health, and spiritual growth.

Synopsis: Kundalini Shakti -- the primordial energy that enlivens each of the seven chakras -- lies sleeping at the base of our spine. To return our consciousness to the crown chakra and cultivate ultimate awareness, she must be awakened. According to yogic tradition, this awakening requires a focused meditation practice. 'The energy of Kundalini is aroused through specific postures, visualizations, and chants. The Shakti surges up the spine in a coiling wave of fire, heat, and light, opening the chakras.' Layne Redmond brings her rare skills as a yoga practitioner, scholar, and sound healer together on Chakra Meditation. Here, she offers a complete course to break through energetic obstacles, increase the natural flow of prana (life force), and give you an inner source of power to pursue your life with purpose, passion, and strength.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 The seven dimensions of reality
Chapter 2 The power structure of the chakra system
Chapter 3 The sixth chakra command central: Power of awareness
Chapter 4 The first chakra the root support: Tribal power
Chapter 5 The second chakra the seat of the self: Power of relationships
Chapter 6 The third chakra the jewel at the navel of reality: Personal power
Chapter 7 The fourth chakra the unstruck sound: Power of conpassion
Chapter 8 The fifth chakra communication central: Power of purification
Chapter 9 The seventh chakra infinite intelligence: Unification of the mind
Chapter 10 Purification practices for the chakras
Cahpter 11 Lineage
Notes
Glossary
Resources
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Great information.
This book is a historical reference piece on the divine feminine. Where it began, how it developed, how it died and how it is reviving. it is very well-researched and goes into great detail about individual goddesses of the drum and rhythm. It goes very in-depth into the sacred feminine and where that has derived from. It speaks of different cultures from around the world and the female deities who represented them.
The illustrations although black and white really add to the book and it's information. Some of the photos are of ancient statues and carvings and paintings that are just unbelievably gorgeous.
It had a lot of information for the Layman but not a lot of new information for the well-versed. If you are a seasoned Pagan practitioner you will probably already know most of the things covered in this book.
Altogether the book is very well compiled and obviously very well-researched. It is put together in such a way that it tells a definitive story throughout history. in my opinion this is the best way to lay out a historical reference book. it makes it much easier for the reader to follow and remember the information they are reading.
This is definitely a book that I would recommend to any woman looking to revive her ancient roots and become in touch with the rhythm of her sacred & divine self.… (meer)