The Five Tibetans: Five Dynamic Exercises for Health, Energy, and Personal Power
Autor Christopher S. Kilhamen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 aug 2011
Ne-a atras atenția modul în care o rutină de doar câteva minute pe zi poate servi drept ancoră pentru un stil de viață echilibrat, indiferent de cât de aglomerat este programul nostru. The Five Tibetans nu este doar un manual de exerciții fizice, ci o invitație la revitalizare prin tehnici ancestrale provenite din inima Himalayei. Această nouă ediție, îmbogățită de Christopher S. Kilham, aduce în prim-plan cele „Cinci Rituri ale Rejuvenării”, un sistem care promite creșterea vitalității și a acuității mentale.
Găsim în această carte o progresie logică și accesibilă: de la înțelegerea fluxului energetic și a chakrelor, până la instrucțiuni precise despre respirație și execuția celor cinci posturi. Ca și The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth de Peter Kelder, acest volum pune accent pe legătura dintre mișcare și longevitate, dar The Five Tibetans se distinge prin perspectiva practică a lui Kilham, care a testat aceste tehnici timp de trei decenii în călătoriile sale pe cinci continente. Spre deosebire de lucrările sale mai experimentale, cum este The Lotus and the Bud, unde explorează sinergia dintre yoga și canabis, aici autorul revine la esență, oferind o metodă pură, validată de timp, pentru sănătatea sistemului cardiovascular și relaxare profundă.
Fiecare exercițiu este însoțit de fotografii care facilitează învățarea corectă, transformând volumul într-un instrument de lucru esențial pentru oricine dorește să combată stresul nervos și tensiunea musculară fără a investi ore întregi în sala de sport. Este, în esență, un ghid de auto-transformare care demonstrează că sănătatea radiantă este rezultatul disciplinei zilnice aplicate cu simplitate.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1594774447
Pagini: 96
Ilustrații: 18 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 137 x 210 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:2nd Edition, New Edition
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Healing Arts Press
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Această carte se adresează celor care caută o metodă eficientă și rapidă de a-și recăpăta energia într-o lume tot mai solicitantă. Veți câștiga nu doar forță fizică și suplețe, ci și un sistem clar de gestionare a stresului prin respirație și mișcare. Este recomandarea noastră pentru oricine dorește să înceapă o practică spirituală și fizică transformatoare, fără a avea nevoie de echipamente complicate sau experiență prealabilă în yoga.
Despre autor
Christopher S. Kilham este un cercetător renumit în medicina naturistă, cunoscut sub numele de „Medicine Hunter” datorită aparițiilor sale la Dr. Oz Show, CNN și FOX News. Din 1978, predă yoga și meditație, conducând cercetări medicinale în peste 30 de țări. Expertiza sa vastă în etnobotanică și sănătate naturală se reflectă în numeroasele sale lucrări, printre care „Hot Plants” și „The Whole Food Bible”. Kilham îmbină rigoarea cercetării de teren cu o practică personală dedicată, fiind un susținător pasionat al soluțiilor naturale pentru longevitate și bunăstare.
Descriere scurtă
“Inspired and clear, The Five Tibetansmakes a worthy contribution to body-mind wellness and longevity.” *Dr. Mehmet Oz* Originating in the Himalayas, the five yogic exercises known as the Five Tibetans take only a minimum of daily time and effort but dramatically increase physical strength, energy, and suppleness as well as mental acuity. Also called the Five Rites of Rejuvenation, these exercises were brought to the West in the early 20th century by a retired British army officer who learned them in a Tibetan lamasery. Regular practice of these postures relieves muscle tension and nervous stress, improves digestion, strengthens the cardiovascular system, tunes and energizes the chakras, and leads to deep relaxation and well-being. Enhancing the innate energetic power of the body and mind, these exercises provide a vehicle for enlivening the senses and harnessing energy for the purpose of self-transformation. Since 1978, Christopher Kilham has taught these exercises to thousands of people seeking a healthier lifestyle. The Five Tibetanshas established itself as a classic among yoga practitioners and teachers alike. In this new edition the author shares his own positive experiences from more than 30 years’ devotion to the practice, even during his extensive worldwide travels, and explores the spiritual benefits of the Five Tibetans as well as the profound impact the practice has on health, longevity, and healthy aging.
Notă biografică
Christopher S. Kilham has taught yoga, meditation, and natural health since 1978. Known for his appearances as the Medicine Hunter on the Dr. Oz Show, CNN Health, and FOX News Health, he has conducted medicinal research in more than 30 countries across 5 continents and the South Pacific. The author of many articles and several books, including Hot Plants, Kava: Medicine Hunting in Paradise, and The Whole Food Bible, he lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.
Extras
About the Five Tibetans
First Experiences with the Five Tibetans
In 1976, I was invited to live and teach health classes at the Institute of Mentalphysics, a spiritual retreat center in Joshua Tree, California. At the time that I moved to the institute only a few residents occupied the center’s apartments. One of those, a woman named Rochelle, was a wonderfully vibrant character in her early seventies with a history of experiences that comprised an impressive romp through a who’s who of gurus, psychics, sages, adepts, seers, avatars, saints, and wanna-be holy men and women. A perfect blend of curiosity, intelligence, positive attitude, and skepticism, and with an appetite for diverse experiences, Rochelle had tried every major and minor spiritual trip popular at that time and knew all the secret mantras and supposed inner knowledge of most of them.
Seeing that I was a devoted yoga practitioner, Rochelle gave me a copy of an interesting little book titled The Five Rites of Rejuvenation authored by a man named Peter Kelder and first published in 1939. The book recounted an engaging story about the discovery of five yoga exercises taught to Kelder by a retired British army officer who had learned the exercises from some Tibetan lamas in a monastery in the Himalayas. According to the book, the Five Rites of Rejuvenation were reputed to strengthen the body, enhance energy, regenerate body and mind, and stem the aging process.
Intrigued by Kelder’s account of their virtues, I began to include the Five Rites of Rejuvenation in my daily yoga routine. I liked the way they had been discovered, the romance of how they had been introduced to a small number of Westerners by the man who had learned them in the Himalayas, and the illustrations of the methods themselves. They were similar in appearance to yoga exercises with which I was already familiar, but they were also different enough that they in no way duplicated other practices in my daily routine.
Of particular interest to me was that the Five Rites of Rejuvenation were more similar to the Tibetan yoga methods taught at Mentalphysics than to any other methods I had previously encountered. It seemed highly likely that, based on the description of the monastic and natural environment from which the Five Rites of Rejuvenation originated, they too were Tibetan in origin. I never liked the name “Five Rites of Rejuvenation.” I always thought it sounded a little cornball, a little too reminiscent of Charles Atlas and the era of the early 1900s. So I began to refer to the exercises as the Five Tibetans.
After practicing the Five Tibetans for two years, I was convinced that, at the very least, they were extraordinary. Despite the fact that they represented only minutes in my daily yoga regimen, I felt invigorated from practicing them.
Now, decades later, I can say that the Five Tibetans definitely help maintain more youthful strength, flexibility, balance, circulation, energy, endurance, and stamina. I also credit them with helping to keep me mentally sharp. They open up the body/mind energy system and seem to balance energy in a way that I have not experienced with any other individual yoga method or set of yoga practices. Not bad at all for a ten-minute daily practice.
Yoga helps you rise to the challenge of living. It keeps you from being ground down by circumstance. It puts fire into the body and mind and leads to being balanced and wise. It makes a lot of sense to practice. In this volume you are given tools to strengthen your body, enhance your health, increase your energy, hone your concentration, and experience the profound power and peace of deep meditation. You’ll find a comprehensive approach to a personal yoga practice using the Five Tibetans as a foundation. Specific information about the human energy system, the chakras, and kundalini meditation will give you a complete context for your practice. You don’t have to endure ascetic austerities or the rugged Himalayan terrain to get at these teachings. They are accessible without restriction, the way all valid teachings should be.
Tibetan #4
Sit up straight with your legs outstretched in front of you. Place the palms of your hands flat on the ground beside your hips. Positioning of the hands is very important; they must be placed exactly alongside the hips. Tuck your chin into your chest.
Inhaling through the nose, raise your hips as you bend your knees, bringing the soles of your feet flat to the ground and dropping your head all the way back. You will come into a position in which the trunk is parallel to the ground while the arms and legs are perpendicular. Exhale through either the nose or mouth as you come down to the starting position. Repeat this motion twenty-one times in a steady, unbroken rhythm. Do not let your feet slide. The feet should stay in the same place through this whole exercise. Also, the arms should not bend; the movement is instead accomplished by pivoting at the shoulders.
Stand when you are finished, feet together and hands on hips. Take two full, deep breaths, inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth, with your lips pursed in an “O.”
Cuprins
Introduction to the New Edition
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 About the Five Tibetans
2 Energy, Body, and Mind
3 The Chakras
4 Kundalini
5 Breathing
6 The Five Tibetans
Tibetan #1
Tibetan #2
Tibetan #3
Tibetan #4
Tibetan #5
7 How, When, and Where to Practice
8 Yoganidra
9 Kundalini Meditation
Recenzii
“Readers of every background will benefit from reading this text. It is informative but endearing, and the colloquial nature of the Medicine Hunter’s no-apologies, straightforward discourse will enlighten those who are already practicing students, and those who wish to become so. Everyone - even those who feel they don’t have time in their busy schedules for yoga - should read this book.”
“Powerful life lesson, both on and off the mat.”
“I tried The Five Tibetans and all I can say is that they are powerful.”
“I know hundreds of individuals who swear by this practice on a daily basis. Chris’s ability to translate this powerful teaching in a simple way has led to great self-transformation.”
“In The Five Tibetans, Chris Kilham offers a simple yet profound practice that promotes health and longevity, is centering, and leads to peace of mind. Chris is a jewel among men!”
“This book is packed full of expert information . . . clear, concise, and easy to understand . . . a wealth of information and advice from many years of teaching and personal experiences. . . a wonderful way to start or end your day.”
“Kilham brings to the Five Tibetans beautifully written chapters about kundalini, the chakras, and an especially insightful instruction on the role of breathing while doing each rite. Excellent and recommended.”
“The exercises are easily learned from the text and accompanying photographs.”
“A time-honored classic that belongs in every yoga library. A true yogi, Chris’s voice is strong, sensitive, and clear; his calling deep and genuine.”
“Inspired and clear, The Five Tibetans makes a worthy contribution to body-mind wellness and longevity.”