Product Description

The Five Tibetans are a yogic system of highly energizing postures and exercises that originated in the Himalayas. Liberating and enhancing the innate energetic power of the human body and mind, these five exercises take a minimum of daily time and effort but offer remarkable results in the way of increased physical strength and suppleness as well as mental acuity. In addition, these exercises can be a vehicle for enlivening the senses and generating and harnessing energy for the purpose of self- transformation.

Regular practice of these postures relieves muscular tension and nervous stress, improves respiration and digestion, benefits the cardiovascular system, leads to deep relaxation and well-being, and tunes and energizes the chakras.

The Five Tibetans are explained within the context of traditional yoga, providing a foundation for understanding.

Black-and-white photographs and illustrations complement the text and clearly indicate the proper execution of each exercise.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33818 in Books
• Published on: 1994-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Hinduism Today
Kilham brings to The Five Tibetans nicely written chapters about kundalini, the chakras and an especially insightful instruction on the role of breathing while doing each rite. Excellent and recommended.

From the Author
The Five Tibetans are an ESSENTIAL yoga practice.
The Five Tibetans enhance the flow of kundalini,the primary enlivening force of the body and mind.Kundalini is the direct link to the creative wellspring of all existence, and is the force of enlightenment. Practice of The Five Tibetans promotes health, and just plain makes you feel good. Having diligently worked with The Five Tibetans daily for almost twenty years, I can say unequivocally that they are a boon to humanity, and offer benefits far exceeding the time and energy required to perform them. I encourage you to practice The Five Tibetans, and I wish you great success and happiness. Bless you all.

About the Author
Christopher Kilham has more than twenty years experience with the practice and teaching of yoga and is the author of several books, including The Bread and Circus Whole Food Bible, Kava, Take Charge of Your Health and Inner Power, In Search of New Age, and the audio Awakening Kundalini for Health Energy and Consciousness.

Customer Reviews

no great secret, just a very good workout
if you're able to ignore the eastern mysticism and holistic stuff, this book basically details five compound exercises which provide you with an excellent short energetic workout that stimulate and engage all major muscle groups and joints with minimal impact. i've been doing them for a year now and they have provided me with a time-friendly simple-to-use workout programme which sorts me out nicely.

it's important to engage them in a fluid manner and with some intensity of pace in order to stimulate the heartbeat and raise body temperataure, so that you're a bit out of breath by the end of it. if done correctly, you'll feel good because of the endorphins released into your bloodstream by your pituitary gland and hypothalamus (aka the "chakras"). also, the increased blood circulation will speed up the removal of toxins from your body and the plumping up of your epidermis which will lessen the appearance of wrinkles and tighten the skin tissue. furthermore, increased and improved circulation will also also stoke your metabolic rate as blood is pumped to your muscles for nourishment, leading your body to burn fat for more energy.

that's basically all there is to it, no great secret, just five very useful exercises which should be treated as such and no more. no, this will not arrest the ageing process - your body's cells will deteriorate and decay over time and some day you will die, sorry. however, if you look after your body by cutting out the rubbish, eating well and excercising right, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to keep going hale and strong into a ripe old age.

like i said, a good book for the excercises alone, but if the other stuff makes you feel positive about things, then go for it, it's all good fun. cheers and take care!

awesome
It's realy nice to find a set of yoga exercises that can be completed in a short space of time. Hatha yoga can take up to two hours, and the book i had on the subject insisted on the importance of performing the whole set in the correct order without modification. I wouldn't want to ignore this advice out of respect for the tradition. The Five Tibetans are great because they do not require much flexibility. My flexibility is probably worse than average (due to bad posture habits) but i could manage all these exercises. They suited me better than the yoga i've done before, as they rely more on streangth, balance and are more aerobic in nature. To someone not used to a strenuous workout they might seem a bit much at first, but personally i find them an exellent middle ground compared to the harsh training i used to put myself through for martial arts.

They gave me so much energy! It was like being on a sugar high or something! Lasted for a whole day!

It's a realy good workout! I imagine most men find yoga boring and frustrating, but these exercises feel alot more physical, they get your heart rate up and work all the core muscle groups in your body. Much more suited to a modern life than the long, complicated exercises of other yoga forms. It's a short book and I was initially dissapointed when i saw it, but the exercises are well photographed and described and are themselves quite brilliant.

If these exercises don't appear to be working for you:
Please note that it does say in the book that the first few times you perform these exercises they will probably be exausting rather than energising. I found this true when i first took an interest in martial arts, but after a week you become fitter, and thus have more energy, so i believe this may be the case with these rather physical exercises. Most exercises will not benefit you if you just do them once! If you are already in reasonable shape you will probably feel the benefits immediately, and should be able to complete all the repetitions. It may be worth noting that i meditated straight after the exercises, so maybe this helped? Or perhaps it's just a matter of finding a system that suits the nature of your energy? If like me, tai chi and hatha yoga did nothing for you, maybe this is what you've been looking for.

I feel energised with kundalini yoga
As an introduction to Kundalini yoga (KY) this little book works very well, it gives a little history in to the 5 Tibetans, chakras, breathing, meditation all in 9 compact chapters.
It's easy to read and not too new-agey that might put people off.

I've done these exercises before but with the Ana Brett & Ravi Singh Beginners and Beyond Kundalini Yoga DVD and they leave me feeling energised for the day. I would recommend their dvd along with this book. While the exercises are well explained in the book it is good to be able to see them being done (on the dvd)and the book gives some background which the dvd doesn't! They compliment each other very well.

Because I think you need some warm up before doing the 5 I'm taking 1 star.