Nawa Yogini Tantra: Yoga for Women

This book is another great work from the Bihar School of Yoga. This time they discuss the complete woman, from childhood to young adulthood; to womanhood and later life, and all inbetween. Swami Muktananda, under the guidance of Swami Satyananda Saraswati, has compiled a text that 'reveals' to the woman herself the workings of her body, the workings of her spirituality and emotions during these different stages in life and they do not hold back. She begins by discussing the science of our bodies and how it works/functions, ie. what organs we have and what their functions truly are. Then there is a duscussion our our energy or Yogic bodies, what they are (chakras; nadis; etc), what their functions are and how they assist when they are healthy or unhealthy. Again the mind body connection or awareness, prevelent throughtout their books. There is information that has disappeared with our 'modernizing' world such as sacred rites of passages girls undertook when they reached young womanhood and how they were eased into it, also a story on how women were excepted and praised during their time, which no longer exists today because of man made myths and laws/religions.Swami Muktananda then delves into the story of all our lives beginning with menstruation, the taboos and realities of this monnumental change. Being a psychology major she talks about what many women, especially in western culture and as western culture takes over in the east, are experiencing. It is daunting. So many women experiencing the same feeling and thoughts because of ignorance and neglect. I know, myself being a woman of western society. There are chapters on menarch and menopause, the beginning and the end; back pain, depression, weight problems and so many other issues that women face daily. It can be a little intense to read if you suffer or have suffered because Muktananda pulls open those bandages that hide the scars and reveals those wounds. But the greatest thing about this text is that awareness is brought to the reader(s) and throughout yogic practices are given to be applied as healing remedies. And they work, having tried and experienced the change myself, namely through the Surya Namaskara practice.This is the real journey of a woman compiled into a book. I highly recommend this to any woman: mother, sister, daughter, aunt, friend and beyond. Also to any father who wants to know how to help their daughter throughout her transitional stages of life. A very infomative text that I wish I had known about so many years ago....

I thought this book was written by the Great Siddha Yogi - Swami Muktananda from Ganeshpuri India . But its written by a yogini from Australia with the same name. The content is okay, geared towards women, has several practices to deal with physical and emotional ailments. I thought this was just okay since I am already familiar with a bit of the content in the book. Was expecting more depth as I thought it would be written by the Great Swami himself.

A wonderful book for women and men alike who are interested in women's lives and issues and looking at it from a yogic perspective.

My wife truly loved this book!

Although everyone seems to think that mainstream yoga is mostly for women, it actually isn't - yoga was originally created for men by men. Swami Muktananda, a very experienced yogini and yoga therapist writes a coincise and clear guidebook for female yoginis what to do, what not do and how to adress particular health issue with a give yoga pose - in the female context.

So far, all the books from the Bihar School of Yoga that I have read have been excellent. However, this one somehow didn't appeal to me too much. There were parts which were good but other parts that were a bit boring.

Informative book on yoga for women. However not all the details are given in the book itself. The book refers other works for details on the asana.

Must read book by all women. YOGA Asan's tackle many of their day to day issues. It written in simple English, easy to understand.

Very good book. Every woman should have.