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: #30483 in Books
• Published on: 1994-05
• 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

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.

Not for me thanks..
I'll keep this short and simple. These exercises did nothing for me and only made more tired than before I began. And I'm speaking from experience, as I've done several other forms of eastern energy disciplines over the years and this one is the most disappointing to date. I believe one or two of the tibetans may be contradictory to good health. But by all means make up your own mind.. You may also like to refer to the comments written for 'The fountain of youth' which seems to me to be the same set of exercises, those reviews are not as complementary as those for this publication..

Straight forward, informative, and achievable
Great book, fairly short and concise but with all the information you would need on the practice of the Five Tibetans.
I bought this book a few years back but, like many things, read it and shelved it for another day... Whilst putting up new shelves for my books I came across it and decided to finally give it a go.

The postures/exercises are straight forward enough, and the whole practice lasts 15 minutes or less. After a week of practice I feel somewhat energised. It would probably help if you have a bit of yoga experience but it's not essential. I had only been to about 10 classes previously and most of the poses were not practised there anyway.

Highly recommended. The author writes clearly, and this is definitely a great place to start for the beginnings of a daily practice.