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Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening (Paperback)
Contributors include: Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Shanti Shanti K. Khalsa, PhD, Sat Bir S. Khalsa, PhD, and Gurucharan S. Khalsa, PhD

You have within you a latent energy waiting to transform your life. Known as "kundalini," this legendary power is believed to catalyze spiritual evolution. But is kundalini real? And if so, how can we engage this energy to awaken our consciousness? For centuries, the secrets of kundalini have been guarded by masters and buried in esoteric texts around the globe. Kundalini Rising brings together 24 illuminating essays by some of today's most prominent voices to demystify this mysterious phenomenon. From personal accounts and yogic practices, to brain research and historical perspectives, this compelling anthology weaves together both the mystical and practical perspectives on the rise of kundalini energy to help support your own spiritual discovery.

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A Woman's Book of Yoga
by Machelle M. Seibel, MD and Hari Kaur Khalsa

"Simple practices to help you stay healthy, calm, and strong, and to carry you forward in a natural progression toward wisdom, real beauty, and the strength of realized grace that belongs to all women," promise Machelle M. Seibel, M.D., and Hari Kaur Khalsa, authors of A Woman's Book of Yoga.

The authors, a gynecologist and a yoga instructor, offer prescriptions for the transitions in women's lives. They teach the health and stress-reduction benefits of breathing, postural, and meditation exercises, including particular activities for menstruation, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, sexuality, and digestion. Spiritual as well as physical health benefits are stressed: "The goal of yoga is to reveal the connection between the human being and the Divine Self."

This is not a simple self-help book, but a serious, mindful guide for a beginning study of kundalini yoga: philosophy, spirituality, postures (illustrated), meditations, and health advantages are addressed. "The yoga itself is not the goal, but it is the key to opening the door to health, self-love, and self-realization," write the authors. --Joan Price

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Yoga for Women
by Shakta Kaur Khalsa

Khalsa, an accomplished yoga practitioner and teacher, instructs the novice in dozens of basic yoga positions (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayamas) and meditations from her own "harmonious blend of Hatha and Kundalini Yoga." Although there are over 200 postures in Hatha practice, Khalsa focuses on those benefiting women's concerns, among them menstruation, breast care, pregnancy, birth and menopause. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by color photographs allow even confirmed klutzes to manage sun salutations, Downward Dog, Crow and the Wheel. Readers are also tempted with recipes for drinks such as Golden Milk, made with the Indian spice turmeric, and beauty treatments such as the Papaya Face Mask or a yogurt bath. For those who need more encouragement to stretch their limbs, Khalsa includes testimonials by women who cite the life-changing powers of yoga. After browsing through the pages of Khalsa's accessible book, even the most yoga-phobic may be inspired to take a "position." Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Meditations for Addictive Behavior - A System of Yogic Science with Nutritional Formulas
by Mukta Kaur Khalsa PhD

Learn the Super Health way from Recovery to Self Discovery with specific meditations and nutritional formulas for behavioral addictions and lifestyle changes.

Meditations for Addictive Behavior is a system of yogic science to inspire and uplift the human spirit. These simple techniques will help break habits, tendencies and addictions. It contains 12 specific meditations with delicious nutritional formulas and inspirational quotes. It is effective with today's behaviors linked to smoking, food, alcohol, drugs, co-dependency, stress, anxiety, depression and many others. This technology provides the psychological edge necessary to remain calm and non-reactive under challenging situations and protect oneself from the pressures of society. It is our belief that the human potential of each individual is unlimited.

These meditations create a relationship with one's higher consciousness and instill the dignity of self-autonomy. Healthcare professionals, people in recovery, yoga practitioners and individuals looking for a self-exalted experience will find this book an inspiring introduction to life-changing habits.

Learn more about Super Health at www.super-health.net

About the Author
Mukta Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D., Director of Super Health, personally studied the teachings for addictive behaviors with Yogi Bhajan beginning in 1973. She directed a specialized rehabilitation hospital in Tucson, AZ, which was rated in the top 10% of all residential programs in the US by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Mukta directed a pilot program in collaboration with the Punjab government in India and is co-author of a recently published research manuscript on the results of the India program. Mukta is the Special Representative to the Office of Drug Control and Crime, Vienna, Austria for the 3HO Foundation and she conducts training workshops on SuperHealth technology for healthcare professionals, yoga teachers and students, and people seeking a new and healthy lifestyle. Mukta lives in Espanola, New Mexico.

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Yoga as Medicine
by Timothy McCall, MD

Timothy McCall, MD, is the medical editor of Yoga Journal and author of our featured book, Yoga as Medicine. Timothy and I met at the Yoga Journal Conference in Estes Park, Colorado in September, 2001 around a conversation on how instructing yoga to people with illness requires different skills than teaching a general yoga class. We discovered a shared understanding and approach to the art of yoga therapeutics. A few months later when he began work on the book he phoned me to discuss his ideas further. As a result, one of the chapters of Yoga as Medicine focuses on our early work teaching Kundalini Yoga to people with HIV disease.

Testimonials about the book:

"This is a remarkable book.  The chapter featuring Kundalini Yoga and HIV goes straight to the heart.  Thank you, Shanti Shanti Kaur, for sharing this story and the yogic approach for this difficult health condition."
~ Katherine, Wisconsin

"Wow.  Yoga as Medicine is an amazing book, elegantly weaving story, yogic technique and medicine.  The HIV chapter captured the essence of teachlng  Kundalini Yoga to people with illness of any kind.  Compassionate, sensitive, clear.  Buy this book!"
~ Sharon, Los Angeles

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Kundalini Postures And Poetry
by Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa (view all books by author)

A handbook of classic yoga poses illustrated with vintage photos of the Master, Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D. This book is the companion volume to "Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Eternal Power."

Kundalini Postures and Poetry takes an unusual approach—using poetry to describe what these traditional yoga postures can do for you. Included in this unique “rhyming photo album” are simple instructions for everything from meditation to chanting to breathing, plus sets of Kundalini Yoga as taught by the Master, Yogi Bhajan, himself. Kundalini Yoga can help you handle stress, improve health, overcome depression, increase energy, add enjoyment to life, enhance overall well-being, and accelerate your journey of self-discovery.

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Food as Medicine
by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa

The author, a physician and a yogi, follows up on his Meditation as Medicine with this guide to nutritional therapy. Together with drinking recommended juices and taking vitamins and herbs, this diet, according to Khalsa, will lead to a healthier, disease-free life. He bases his program on the seven principles of yoga nutritional therapy: body detoxification; the use of organic products; elimination of genetically engineered foods; eating only clean protein (e.g., fish, soy, beans, legumes); fresh juices and supplements; cooking consciously and eating mindfully; and a complete transition to a yoga nutrition therapy diet. Fans of Andrew Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) and Deepak Chopra (How to Know God) will appreciate the author's combination of spirituality and diet.

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Meditation as Medicine
by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa

Long-term meditators experience 80 percent less heart disease and 50 percent less cancer than nonmediators, according to a large body of studies. Meditation has been shown to improve sleep and reduce chronic pain. Not all meditation is equally effective, however. Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., has developed a form of advanced meditation he calls "Medical Meditation," which "more fully addresses every element of our physical and ethereal makeup...a full-service approach." Medical Meditation is an adaptation of kundalini yoga combined with meditation, using specific breathing patterns, posture and movements, mantras, and mental focus.

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Immunotics: A Revolutionary Way to Fight Infection, Beat Chronic Illness, and Stay Well
by Robert Rountree, M.D. and Carol Colman

You can get well. Beyond echinacea, zinc, and vitamin C, there are Immunotics. A revolutionary wave of immunity boosters including olive leaf extract, shark liver oil, and western larch, Immunotics fend off infection and keep your immune system humming. This is not a book about ridding the world of antibiotics. When used correctly, antibiotics are wonderfully effective. They should not, however, be used to treat every bug that we encounter. Instead, Immunotics teaches us how to strengthen our immune systems naturally so that we can avoid getting sick in the first place. When we do get sick, and we inevitably will, Immunotics can get us better faster.

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