Bench Yoga For Easier Yoga and Enhanced Meditation - Subtle Energy Yoga

Learn how you can practice a meditative form of yoga-even with a typically Western "gymnastic yoga" session going on around you. Learn how to find your meditation posture. Develop the specific combination of strength and flexibility required to maintain it effortlessly. Perhaps most importantly, learn the Figure-8 Energy Breath-a breathing pattern you can use to supercharge your asanas and your workouts, and start you on the road to energy flow meditations. It's all in Bench Yoga, volume 1 of the Subtle Energy Yoga series.
This is yoga for you!

• Beginners: Gentle yoga anyone can do. Don't let age, weight, or injuries hold you back. If you can sit in a chair, you can do this!
• Experts: Accelerate your progress. Strengthen your asanas. Build to Lotus.
• Everyone: Enjoy a meditative energy-flow practice. Raise chi. Meditate! Need a break? Meditate! Enjoy a perfectly upright, perfectly balanced, perfectly comfortable posture.

Prepare for your inner journey!

• From yoga to meditation.
• From meditation to the sublime experience of internal energy.

Discover these simple truths:

• Meditation and internal energy flows open the door to joy and happiness.
• They are the key to a connection with the divine-the unending source of inspiration and love.

From the Back Cover
Bench Yoga is a perfect blend of meditation and yoga that anyone can do. If you can sit in a chair, you can do it. If you can sit in Lotus Pose, you can still benefit from it. And the ancient tradition of a sitting bench can help you get from one to the other!

Make Yoga Easier
Not everyone can get down to the floor-or get back up again. Not everyone can do the asanas (poses) without support. But everyone can sit! That's where the Yoga Bench comes in.

Sit straight, meditate, progress to Full Lotus
Your Yoga practice should make it possible to sit long and sit strong. Why? To meditate! It's always been the goal of Yoga. A bench can help you develop your capacity to sit effortlessly and comfortably.

Connect with an Ancient Tradition
All over India there are pictures and sculptures of gods and ancient gurus sitting on a bench, a tree stump-even the back of a cow or tiger! Typically, they are sitting with one leg up, and one down. They knew something! Eric Armstrong is reinvigorating that tradition with a Yoga and Meditation practice built around a sitting bench. It just may be the most important of your Yoga practice!

Improve your Yoga/Meditation practice

• You can easily sit in the ideal, upright posture-without back pain.
• You won't strain or slide off, even if you have limited flexibility.
• A wide variety of sitting positions let you meditate longer and more deeply.
• Get up and sit down as easily as a chair. Change positions easily.
• Support for standard asanas makes them easier.
• Special asanas help you progress to Full Lotus.

This book shows you

• Where to buy a bench, how to build one, how to set it up and use it.
• The 11 basic sitting positions with 45 variations
• Standard Yoga asanas using the bench and a Yoga Block for support
• Special asanas that build flexibility in the hips and legs
• Plus, a collection of exercises to build sitting strength

The asanas and exercises promote internal energy flows - a great prelude to meditation. You sit comfortably with ease, poise, and clarity to enjoy the deepest experience possible. It's a revival of the ancient wisdom of Yoga.

Note: The Kindle version has live links and color pictures.