Main description:

Dynamic Embodiment of the Sun Salutation : Pathways to Balancing the Chakras and the Neuroendocrine System guides you to do the Sun Salutation with more ease by integrating awareness of glandular and chakral embodiment cues and neuro-developmental movement. Everything in this book can be applied to your personal practice and overall health, or to teaching others. It offers a soft, organic yet powerful approach to being in the poses and transitioning between them. What you will learn is effective and surprising. There is tangible mystery in accessing this ability, which we all have, to embody the endocrine system and the related energy fields.

By working with the endocrine system and their correlations with the chakras we are grounding the subtle within the physical body. Learn about the dynamic combination of the specific electrical and systemic circulatory nature of the neuroendocrine system. Discover how the anatomical placement of the glands and the spatial tensions (or tensegrity) surrounding them are the natural bridge to activating the energy needed for a fulfilling life.

One access route to these dynamic stimuli is through Body Mind Centering's developmental approach, conveyed through the lens of Dynamic Embodiment by BMC (R) Master teacher Dr Martha Eddy. This approach includes an understanding of careful skeletal positioning, brain-activating movement and hormonal balancing as well as integrating broader social somatic contexts such as the impact of lifestyle, cultural and intergenerational influences. In an age when, most likely, at least one person you know is struggling with thyroid, adrenal, or reproductive glandular imbalance, this book will provide information on the physical, emotional and spiritual impact of attuning with the glands and early childhood development imprints while practising the Sun Salutation. It includes clues for what to do when yoga or endocrine work brings on chaos - from trauma triggers, kundalini overwhelm, to basic life confusion. It gives you the tools to help ground yourself and others, and to take centered action in a dynamic world.

Contents:

About the Authors

About the Artist

Foreword by Eleanor Criswell

Foreword by Per Erez

Preface

Salute to our Teachers and Acknowledgements

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Somatic Awareness and Dynamic EmbodimentSM - Components that Support the Sun Salutation

CHAPTER 2 History of Yoga and Chakras/Sun Salutation

CHAPTER 3A The Nervous System, Glands and Neuroendocrine System

CHAPTER 3B Diving Deeper into Glands

CHAPTER 4 Layering in the Chakras

CHAPTER 5 The Sun Salutation - Entering the Practice

CHAPTER 6 Developmental Movement and the Sun Salutation

CHAPTER 7 Considerations for Practicing the Sun Salutation - Preventing and Countering Pain

CHAPTER 8 Managing Glandular Challenges

CHAPTER 9 Considerations in Teaching the Sun Salutation

CHAPTER 10 Get Moving with Glandular and Cultural Awareness, Supported by Nature

References

Permissions

Index