Product Description

Deep Yoga, Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times, is a collection of essays on the healing and spiritual powers of Yoga and Ayurveda and their relevance for our modern times. Each chapter contains wisdom from these sacred science and practical tips and tools for applying this wisdom to your daily life. In our modern, fast-paced culture, dominated by mass-media, distraction and superficiality, stress has become epidemic. Modern medical science has come to realize that this stress is at the root of a majority of the physical and mental illnesses that plague our society. Yoga and Ayurveda offer a pathway to deep relaxation and inner-awareness. This leads to connecting with the intrinsic power we all have to self-heal... a power from which we have largely been disenfranchised. As the great sage, Dr. David Frawley, notes in his introduction to this book, "Yoga and Ayurveda together show us how to achieve health, happiness, and well-being on all levels of our lives. Bhava Ram is one of the most dynamic teachers of Yoga and Ayurveda today. Bhava himself was reborn in the fire of disease... and has the wisdom from the other side, as it were, from one who is not attached to the ordinary things of this world. Bhava will show you the deeper dimensions of Yoga and inner healing that he himself has worked through in his own vast array of life-experience. The journalist/news reporter base he comes from has been transformed into a calm spiritual teacher, helpful friend, and compassionate guide for all who come to see him."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1055802 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

Review
Bhava Ram has done it again! After escaping from the jaws of a Desert Storm - inflicted cancer death, this former war correspondent abandoned Western Medicine and immersed himself totally into the Yogic life. The result has been a complete healing and emergence into robust, dynamic health. Now, for his encore, he brings to every man and woman, Deep Yoga: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times. Deep Yoga, I submit, is a well-conceived roadmap toward achieving optimal health, wellness, serenity, and success. Does that sound like a journey worth taking? Written in down-to-earth, easily understood language, with no more ancient terms and concepts than necessary (and those are collected in a nifty Sanskrit glossary in the back), Bhava leads his reader step-by-step into a relationship that promises immediate energy increase, and on a deeper level, the tools that enable each one of us to achieve peace of mind. Through this outpouring of love and wisdom, synthesized into manageable bites, Bhava connects us with our higher self, leading us to become one with the entire universe. A quick read of any daily newspaper front page will certainly bring unanimous agreement that we all desperately need this Ancient Wisdom in these troubling times. So I shout to all, "Go get yourself a healthy dose of this wonderful stuff: Go Deep Yoga! --Jerry Bryant, Publisher, Minister, Teacher

About the Author
Bhava Ram is co-founder of Deep Yoga, a yogic system based upon Vedic Scriptures, Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda that goes deeply into the mind/body/soul connection, guiding students and clients towards greater self-understanding, purification, inner-healing and deeper consciousness. Bhava's creation of Deep Yoga is the result of profound personal transformation after living with terminal illness and chronic pain, an experience that gave him a passion for sharing the transformative healing power that can be unleashed and mastered through the sacred sciences of Yoga & Ayurveda. For 25 years, Bhava was a broadcast journalist, working for television stations across the country and ultimately as a foreign correspondent with network news. He lived and worked throughout the world, including Africa, South America, Asia and the Middle East. An accident left him with a broken back. A failed surgery rendered him crippled and in severe chronic pain. This cost him his career and any ability to work. Several years later, Bhava was diagnosed with a rare and fatal form of throat cancer - most likely contracted from chemical exposure during the Persian Gulf War. Western doctors gave him two years to live. Towards the end of those two years, on the brink of death, Bhava found Yoga. It immediately struck a chord deep in his soul. He left western medicine behind and fully devoted himself to sadhana (daily yogic practice and study), delving into every aspect of the art and science of Yoga, practicing and studying 12-16 hours per day for the first several years. Through this process, Bhava Ram self-healed both his broken back and his "terminal" cancer. He now devotes his life to sharing the miracle of self-healing with others, believing fully that we all have the inherent power to take charge of our destiny, heal ourselves and effect lasting personal transformation in our lives. Deep Yoga is an expression of this belief and devotion. Bhava is certified as an Advanced Yoga and Ayurveda Educator through the American Institute of Vedic Studies. He has completed additional courses in The Yoga Sutras, Vinyasa Krama (the art of sequencing) and Yoga Chikitsa (Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy). He is also certified by the Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT at the 500-hour level. Deep Yoga is registered as a teaching school with the Alliance. Bhava leads retreats, workshops, trainings and seminars with his wife, Laura Plumb, co-founder of Deep Yoga. He teaches Deep Yoga and Deep Healing classes at Ginseng Yoga Studio in San Diego and works with a host of private clients.

Customer Reviews

Moving Deeper into Life and Yoga
This lovely little book offers spiritual sustenance for everyone from the advanced Hatha Yoga teacher to the beginning practitioner. In fact, there is much to be gleaned from "Deep Yoga" even among those who have never touched a sticky mat! This is because Bhava Ram has studied and lived the great spiritual tradition of Yoga, healing himself from a life-threatening illness, and emerged to teach the ancient wisdom in an accessible way for modern, busy Westerners.

Through a series of essays - about life, breath, ego, ritual, and gratitude to name a few - the author unveils Yoga as spiritual practice. We learn that the often-used word 'Yoga' actually means 'union' and offers vastly more than a physical work-out. There is an elaborate system of teachings and practices designed to bring us into an experience of the divine. Ram writes about daily life events through the lens of Yoga, and in this sense there are lessons that any seeker of truth could appreciate.

I think though Yoga practitioners and teachers would especially appreciate the book because, while not a how-to manual, it includes meditations, practices and mantras. The author lays out a specific heart-opening or cultivating gratitude practice, for instance. They aren't complex. You may even wonder why you never thought of them or why you simply don't practice them more often. But that is part of the magic offered by this yoga teacher. He lives the teachings daily and you can sense this through his writing.

One of the things you feel when reading the book, or practicing the techniques, is a sense of oneness - oneness with Mother Nature, self, others and the divine. Yet, the tone is down-to-earth and conveys that each of us can live Yoga right here and now, everyday, on and off the mat.

If you're looking for specific guidance on asana poses, that's not in this book. "Deep Yoga" is more about integrating the teachings passed down thousands of years ago from Indian sages into our current lives. If you want to delve deeper, Ram references the fundamental texts that gave birth to Yoga. But even with this introduction, you learn what some of those Sanskrit words really mean. And you may chuckle all the way to your local Yoga studio about how the West has interpreted this ancient, Eastern practice.