Self-Awakening Yoga: The Expansion
of Consciousness through the Bodys
Own Wisdom by Don Stapleton Ph.D.
Great Physical Exploration
Takes yoga back to its roots as a creative learning process and an
expansion of consciousness, not just a technique for health and fitness. •
Provides simple techniques that enhance the free flow of prana to promote
physical and emotional healing, self-discovery, and spiritual evolution. •
Includes over 100 exercises and meditations for a self-structured practice.
• Teaches how to release the bodys inefficient, painful patterns and to
access unknown potentials through kinesthetic inquiries. • Includes 60-
minute audio CD of four guided meditation exercises. When artist and
professor Don Stapleton discovered yoga, it marked the beginning of a
journey into the awakening powers of prana--the energy of yogic
purification--and the natural spiritual and healing properties of his own
body. After 30 years of extensive yoga training, an accident left him with a
severe injury to the spine. Faced with the challenge of physical recovery,

Stapleton drew upon his knowledge of yoga to create a series of exercises
that allowed him to recover freedom of movement, release emotional
blockages, and unleash his spiritual and physical potential. Self-
Awakening Yoga is the synthesis of Stapletons practice. More than 100
exercises--from focusing on the breath to accessing primal sound--show
how to unlock the wisdom and power of prana to engage the bodys healing
powers. His simple exercises and meditations focus on natural movements
that encourage body awareness. Readers learn how to listen to what the
body is saying before engaging in any specific yoga postures. Self-
Awakening Yoga takes yoga back to its roots as a creative learning
process and an expansion of consciousness, not just a technique for
health and fitness.
Personal Review: Self-Awakening Yoga: The Expansion of
Consciousness through the Bodys Own Wisdom by Don
Stapleton Ph.D.
Hello, I've been teaching yoga for a year now, different styles such as
Fitness Yoga, Yoga for children, beginners yoga, yoga with the blind. I was
finding that my students ( and myself !! ) really were never in a STATE of
YOGA with our bodies while doing yoga poses. Then I dicovered
Feldenkrais, which although it has many definitions, could be said to be
movement awareness and education. Through it, I finally found a way to
feel my entire being in the pose, and find an effortlessness to even the
most challenging activities. Don Stapleton uses this same approach but
makes it more user-friendly for someone with a yoga background, so we
see familiar poses that he breaks down to their essence, then invites us to
fully explore what our bodies do to get there. He goes deeper by also
exploring how to feel the hara and the chakras, but this is not his main
focus. I shudder to think how many times I have performed a simple cobra
and didn't feel the subtle changes in my fingertips, my toes, my pelvis, and
an effortless way to anchor my tailbone to the floor without the usual
'tighten the legs, tighten the buttocks' approach. This book has become my
bible on how to connect with my body....the real essence of yoga, after all.
Just today I introduced a blind student to the basic techniques of scanning
the body, noticing subtle changes in weight distribution etc and he started
smiling...for the first time today he actually felt his entire body during Tree,
including his ankles, his elbows, his fingertips. It was awe-inspiring. He
also said today was the first day in his 57 year old life he understood the
mind-body ocnnection. What better praise for a book.
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