Yoga: A Natural Way of being: A nine-week, easy-to-do programme for initiation into adopting yoga as a way of life - Paperback

by Vinod Verma (Author)

The course of yogic practices offered in this book is very fundamental and is basically designed for maintaining good physical and mental health and find spiritual strength. The book is written in such a way that you can understand yoga and learn it yourself. The simple practical exercises provided in this book are meant for making body flexible, enhancing blood circulation, and using asanas or postures beneficially for healing minor and chronic ailments. It is to show you a spiritual path for strengthening mind and managing day-to-day stress. Yoga learnt in a right way without aiming at impossible postures can help you discover your own body. Once you find weak points of your body, by repeated practice the blockades will vanish. This is not a clich yoga book to teach you some superficial exercises. It is a book meant for body, mind and soul. From waking up, to sleep, to breathing- all aspects of day-to-day life are taken into consideration. The best way to use this book is to read introduction first and understand what yoga is. Then begin with first week and repeat the first week for several weeks. Do that for all the nine weeks. Each weeks programme includes exercises for your body and mind and to show you a spiritual path. Be your own master and learn it yourself. Forget about the yoga classes in a herd like atmosphere and learn yogic practices in the peace of your home or garden. This book has become a classic by now. First published in 1988, it has been translated into German, French, Italian and Hindi. There has been numerous edition out for each language. Dr Verma is a world renowned scientist who has studied Neurobiology in Paris in the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (old Sorbonne) and has worked in prestigious places like National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA and Max Planck Institute in Germany. She resolved to do research in health rather than disease after having worked in a pharmaceutical company in Germany in 1984. She was the first one to bring scientific aspects of Yoga and Ayurveda to the West. Her books on Yoga and Ayurveda with a comprehensive and holistic scientific system appeared in late eighties and early nineties in various European languages. She has written 23 books on various aspects of health, women and companionship until now. For more details see www.ayurvedavv.com Dr. Vinod Verma's Publications 1.Patanjali's Yoga Sutra: A Scientific Exposition (Published in English, Hindi and German). 2.Ayurveda for Inner Harmony: Nutrition, Sexual Energy and Healing (Published in English, German, Italian, French, Romanian and Hindi). 3.Ayurveda a Way of Life (Published in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Czech, Greek, Portuguese, Slovenian and Hindi). 4.The Kamasutra for Women (Published in English America and India], German, French, Dutch, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian Hindi and Malayalam). 5.Stress-free Work with Yoga and Ayurveda (Published in German, English America and India] and Hindi). 6.Patanjali and Ayurvedic Yoga 7.Programming Your Life with Ayurveda 8.Ayurvedic Food Culture and Recipes 9.Yoga: A Natural Way of Being 10.Companionship and Sexuality: Based on Ayurveda and the Hindu tradition 11.Natural Glamour: The Ayurveda Beauty Book (Published in German, Spanish and English) 12.Losing and Maintaining Weight with Ayurveda and Yoga (Published in English, Slovenian and German). 13.The Timeless Wisdom of Ayurveda: A Scientific Exposition (Published in English and German) 14.Prakriti and Pulse: The Two Mysteries of Ayurveda (Published in German) 15.Good Food for Dogs: Vegetarian nourishment based on Ayurvedic wisdom 16.Diet for Losing Weight 17.Aum: The Eternal Energy 18.Pulse Diagnose in Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine 19.Shiva's Secrets for Health and Longevity 20.Healing Hands: The Ayurvedic Massage workbook 21.Prevention of Dementia 22.Ayurveda for Dogs 23.Numerology: Based on the Vedic Tradition

Author Biography

Along with a doctorate degree in reproduction biology in India, Dr. Verma studied Neurobiology in Paris University and obtained a second doctorate. She pursued advanced research at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (USA) and the Max-Planck Institute in Freiburg, Germany. At the peak of her career in medical research in a pharmaceutical company in Germany, she realised that the modern approach to health care is basically fragmented and non-holistic. Besides, we are directing all our efforts and resources to cure disease rather than maintaining health. In response, Dr. Verma founded The New Way Health Organisation (NOW) in 1986 to spread the message of holistic living, preventive methods for health care and to promote the use of mild medicine and various self-help therapeutic measures. Dr. Verma grew up with a strong familial tradition of Ayurveda with a grandmother who had enormous Ayurvedic wisdom and was a gifted healer. She has studied Ayurveda in the traditional Guru-shishya style with Acharya Priya Vrat Sharma of the Benares Hindu University for 23 years. Dr. Verma is an ardent researcher and is working hard to compile the living tradition of Ayurveda and spread it in the world through her books and other activities. She has published twenty three books on yoga, Ayurveda, Women and Companionship. The books are published in various languages of the world. Besides, she has published numerous scientific articles. Several other books are in preparation. She lectures extensively, teaches in Europe for several months a year, trains students at her two centres in India and gives radio and television programmes. A film on Ayurveda with her was made by German television in 1995 and was shown in 100 countries, in 130 languages. It was the first film on Ayurveda. Dr. Verma has founded Charaka School of Ayurveda to train interested people with genuine Ayurvedic education so that they can further impart the knowledge of Ayurvedic way of life and save people from becoming a victim of charlatanry in Ayurveda. She is doing several research projects on medicinal plants and their combination in the form of remedies. She is the founder and chairperson of The Ayurveda Health Organisation, which is a charitable trust for promoting Ayurvedic remedies and yoga therapy in rural areas of India. She lectures and workshops for school children in the rural areas of Himalayas to promote wisdom of traditional medicine. Dr. Verma gives seminars, lectures and teaches.