Tantra Yoga Secrets: Eighteen Transformational Lessons to Serenity, Radiance, and Bliss

After several years of Hatha yoga asana I discovered the slightly more arcane Kundalini style. From there I began exploring the Tibetan style which focuses more on kriya and energy than the yoga I did at the gym. I've also tried Dahn yoga. Naturally I was drawn to this book. I found it easy to read and informative. I like the way Mr. Stiles discusses the connection between the chakras and the koshas. My roommate, however, got quite leery as he had never heard chakras discussed this way before. So I will own that if you have really set ideas on chakras, energy and yogic philosophy maybe you won't like this book as much as I did.Here's where I'm at with Chakras: no one has ever seen them on an MRI or Xray machine. No one can seem to agree on how many there are or what color. So for myself, whenever I start studying a new-to-me yoga style I am willing to accept for purposes of discussion the definition of "chakra" that the style is employing.This is a great beginner book, which is exactly what I wanted. I'm on lesson 6 and I find my energy awareness is much more acute.

This book is the product of a lifetime of practice and study by a beloved American Yoga teacher who spent time with his guru, Swami Muktananda in Ganeshpuri, India. Extending beyond ordinary Classical Yoga and meditation, practice of the secrets of Tantra Yoga is considered to be the fast track to spiritual enlightenment.This is the first book I've found that presents the secrets of Tantra divided into a logical succession of individual lessons. I first read the entire book through, then went back to the beginning and started doing the lessons one at a time, and am currently on number 6 of 18.Within each lesson the reader is given an assignment related to a specific aspect of meditation or some other esoteric practice. Each lesson ends with an illuminating question-and-answer dialogue between Mukunda and students who have studied these lessons via email over the past several years. This provides the reader unique and diverse perspectives on what is sometimes experienced as an arcane and elusive subject.While Tantric Yoga may not appeal to everyone, this understandable book provides an opportunity to look behind the curtain that has veiled these mysterious and esoteric practices for thousands of years.

Mukunda Stiles was a Tantric master and created this lovely step by step personal journey into the subtle energetic system, you will learn how to feel, manage and direct this shakti flowing through you and see how it directly affects your life.

A good practical book

this book is not meant for the totally- beginer- like me. its for those who bought the first book of its series and had an instructor. But if u had an instructor.....why buy a book by another instructor?

Not what I really thought it was.

I miss Mukunda. So glad to have his book.

Great book!!!!

Wish I didn't bother buying this book as the author just bangs on about lineages and how you need to be part of a genuine one. It's disappointing that the author clearly intends this book for insiders, not the general public that it's sold to.

This is such an excellent book, on so many levels & so supportive of Our somatic & energetic practices...A Devotional & Humbling read..As he takes one through a step by step process to establish a Tantric - devotional - energetic self -practice...The questions & answers sections....by the late Mukunda Styles..following each chapter...are invaluable & so helpful & reassuring & enlightening..One you will keep on coming back to.

Mukunda Stiles was a truly enlightening teacher and this is the course in Tantra yoga that you could study with him by distance learning. Many questions are answered in each section about dificulties which arise with eac practice.

Mukunda's book is an expression of deep devotion and love, his desire to share the depth of his years of experience and his connection to Devi is a great gift to us.This book honours the deepest intention of Yoga,"to yoke,to unite, become one", by practicing the ancient wisdom and techniques of Tantra. Mukunda teaches us practical methods for us to reconnect with the Divine Mother within us, and embrace every aspect of our lives as an oppotunity to recognise her in all form,things and people. Ultimately through the practice of samyama, concentration on Shakti, (energy, the tattvas), the the unity of the Self is revealed "It is only by the Mother that the Father can be known"MS. I cannot recommend Mukunda's books highly enough, whether your samyama(focus) is "Structural Yoga therapy" and kinesiology, "Patanjali's Yoga Sutra's", "Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy" or "Tantra Yoga Secrets" each book has been written from a deep foundation of personal spiritual experience and with the sensitivity, understanding and compassion for the human condition, which is only possible from one who has trodden the path and is able to guide us through our pain (physical, emotional and /or spiritual) to a more harmonious (sattvic) relationship with our s/Self. Thankyou Mukunda

I haven't finished this book yet. So much to absorb - so much to learn - the time is not quite right - soon!!!