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    Yoga Fiction: Yoga Truth: Transmuting Wounds, Walking Into Your Self
    Yoga Fiction: Yoga Truth: Transmuting Wounds, Walking Into Your Self
    Yoga Fiction: Yoga Truth: Transmuting Wounds, Walking Into Your Self
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    Yoga Fiction: Yoga Truth: Transmuting Wounds, Walking Into Your Self

    By Sandra Sammartino

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    YOGA FICTION: YOGA TRUTH,
    Book 1
    Transmuting Wounds,
    Walking Into Your Self

    Yoga Fiction; Yoga Truth is for Yoga students, teachers and anyone who wonders what Yoga is really all about.

    Through personal stories, valuable explanations and Yoga videos embedded in Yoga Fiction: Yoga Truth, Sandra Sammartino presents the PRINCIPLES of Yoga.

    The PRINCIPLES of Yoga power ALL of the various Yoga systems. They maximize energetic and emotional release, as well as attain contemplative and meditative states, enabling you to effectively meet the challenges of daily living with more calm, serenity and peace.

    Yoga PRINCIPLES that work in everyday life.

    Drawing on over four decades of a wealth of experience as a Yoga teacher, trainer and leader in all aspects of Yoga, and as a personal consultant, Sandra Sammartino describes and demonstrates the PRINCIPLES of Yoga.

    PRINCIPLES that allow you to CHOOSE the Practices you NEED to develop your unique Body and Expand your Personality FOREVER, regardless of your age, limitations or outer circumstances.

    The POWER of Yoga rests in your hands.


    YOGA FICTION: YOGA TRUTH is the first of a series of four books. Stay tuned for more books in the series…

    COMING SOON

    YOGA FICTION: YOGA TRUTH

    eBook 2.
    Charging-Up Prana
,
    Triggers Creative Willingness

    eBook 3.
    Your Dazzling Diamond Body,

    Anchors You in The Flow


    eBook 4.
    You Are This ETERNAL Moment
    Everything Else is Constantly Changing
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 27, 2014
    ISBN9780992164508
    Yoga Fiction: Yoga Truth: Transmuting Wounds, Walking Into Your Self

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      Yoga Fiction - Sandra Sammartino

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      What Shaped My Yoga

      "It’s not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent.

      It is the one most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin

      My marriage ended in 1971. I was thirty years old, and an emotional wreck. The pain from behind my left eye, extended down through my shoulder, into my hip, and it ended in my little toe! The neurologist said this was impossible.

      However the pain was there and it made me nervous. I couldn’t sit quietly or even read a book. He prescribed muscle relaxants and then my family doctor recommended Valium.

      Terrified, I sought my mother’s advice. When she suggested Yoga (it had calmed her nerves) I registered for the local class and learned various Asanas (Yoga positions). They elongated my muscles and soon I was feeling CALMER and more CONFIDENT than I had in ages.

      Around the same time, I met spiritual teacher, Jack Schwartz. He taught classes at the local university called Voluntary Control of Internal States. I signed up, hoping to control and heal my body without medications. Soon I was learning a method he called Creative Meditation.

      Following Jack’s instructions, Creative Meditation put me in touch with the sensations and feelings in my body. Also, imagery, associations, direct messages and insights, invoked through Creative Meditation, gave me a deeper UNDERSTANDING into my life, in spite of my ongoing anxiety, pain and confusion.

      For instance, when an exciting opportunity at a budding television station came my way, instead of rushing to accept the invitation, as was my usual pattern, I sat down, closed my eyes and breathed deeply. Following the steps outlined in Creative Meditation I simply asked myself, Should I take this job?

      To my amazement an inner message whispered, This work is too demanding. Your children need you. I was dismayed, but quickly realized—even though there would be less money, there would be more time—for Yoga and for my children.

      THAT MOMENT CHANGED ME FOREVER.

      Contacting the wiser part of myself flooded me with a sense of personal power. In this case, once the decision was made, I felt more peaceful, my children were happier, and I never once regretted my decision.

      I began relying more and more on intuitive states gained through Creative Meditation to forge the direction of my life. I stopped worrying about what other people thought about me and, instead, trusted in my own INSIGHTS to guide my work, play and love life. I even began to teach Yoga.

      Although I was still grieving the loss of my marriage, I was stronger and my children were happier. Staying true to myself and to my own way of being in the world, I felt more AUTHENTIC and my life became more meaningful.

      Creative Meditation naturally transferred into my Asana practice. Sometimes, after closing my eyes, breathing deeply and stretching; deep feelings, intuitive flashes and psychological insights SPONTANEOUSLY bubbled up. They seemed to pop right out of my muscles!

      Once while stretching through the tightness in my upper back my breath became heavy and hot tears burned down my cheeks. I sobbed for my lost dreams, broken family and fractured self. Just then, intuitive flashes told me what really happened between my husband and myself compared to what I thought had happened. I was overcome with anger.

      Afterwards I noticed, the PAIN down the left side of my body DIMINISHED, and my intense fear of being alone with my children DIMMED.

      The connection between my body and emotional states stunned me, while the information I received emboldened me. Expressing these insights to my husband and others, I felt an even GREATER SENSE OF SELF.

      Experiencing the POWER of Yoga, for myself, encouraged me to share what I was learning with my Yoga students. We used the altered states that Asana provided to contact deeper feelings, needs and views. Seeing my students prosper in my classes and in their personal lives spurred me on.

      After practicing and teaching Yoga this way for several years, I engaged in a more physical form of Asana—Iyengar Yoga. Practiced with eyes wide open, it focused more on muscular strength, rather than on inner sensing. My muscles got bulkier and more defined; however the intuitive states I had grown to rely on in my subtler Yoga practice grew distant and harder to reach. Then they left me all together. I had fallen out of heaven and didn’t know why. Later I realized, coarse muscular bodies inhibit

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