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Shopping: Books
Frequently, we are asked to recommend books that best support holistic, healthy lifestyles. Included here are some of the books that best fit a healthy lifestyle.
 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."
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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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 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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 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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 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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 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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