My Tribute to the Royal Road of Yoga

Anodea Judith’s Chakra Yoga is finally here!

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“At long last, here is a modern guide to teach us Chakra Yoga. For decades, I have been waiting, wishing, longing for such a book as Anodea Judith’s Chakra Yoga. Chakra Yoga is a multidimensional book perfect for those who practice yoga, but also for therapists who work with energy transformation through the chakras, Tantra teachers looking for the best information about the chakras, and those who want to heal their body and improve their meditation skills. As always with Anodea, the book is exquisitely presented, deep, practical, inspiring, easy to follow, contemporary. A MUST HAVE. Enjoy the ride!” —Margot Anand, author of The Art of Everyday Ecstasy
 

Publishing a book is like having a baby. After all the initial work, the book goes off to the printer and you anxiously await the day it is delivered into your hands, fully formed. You might think you’re finished with the work at that point, but just like a baby, its birth is when the real work begins. I’ve heard it said that by the time your book is published, you’ve done only 10% of the work. The rest is feeding and diapering, and getting it out there.

So I am anxiously awaiting the delivery of this new baby coming next week—my book on chakra yoga. To distinguish it from Alan Finger’s book Chakra Yoga, published about 10 years ago, the publishers chose to call it Anodea Judith’s Chakra Yoga, capitalizing on my name. It was certainly not my first choice to have my name in the title, but no other title suggestion was accepted, so I have been the one learning acceptance. I didn’t mean to be egoic about it, however, it is my own compilation of 40 years of practicing and teaching yoga, combined with my own special blend of bioenergetic exercises designed to move charge through the body, or what yogis call prana. So even seasoned practitioners will find something new.

It is also my first book in full color, with 232 photographs of the poses shot by Bobbi Lance of Yuzu Studios. Many thanks and kudos to the models, Sarah Jenness and Mark Silva. I am grateful that these amazing yogis were able to stand under bright hot lights for hours on end, while I looked on making suggestions. They did the hard work of making this book possible.

So much of yoga is performance oriented, and in my 40 years I have seen this trend grow stronger and stronger. Yet yoga was originally designed to put its practitioners in touch with the subtle energy, and evolve that energy into divine awakening. As a somatic therapist and yoga teacher, deeply immersed in the chakras, this has been my work over the years: finding ways to put someone in touch with their own sacred center, the divine within, and help that soul heal and evolve through practices. There are many paths to get there.

This book is my tribute to the royal road of yoga. The body is the vehicle that drives upon that road, with consciousness as the driver. But everyone needs a map to navigate that terrain, and that’s what the chakra system provides: a map for the journey of awakening, the most important journey of our time.

That awakening is both personal and collective, which is why we are offering a 2 for 1 offer: pre-order the new chakra yoga book and you will get a copy of the The Global Heart Awakens as a free gift. Write a review of either one and post it on Amazon (we’ll have to be able to see it) and you get a 50% discount on any one of our online course bundles.

Blessings,
Anodea