ALPHA OMEGA YOGA: The Art and Science of Self Transformation

By Angela Kolias

Yoga in the West has gone from being esoteric and on the fringe to now being mainstream as a physical work out. The physical practice of yoga is merely a means to the end. What is yoga really all about? What do all the centuries of practice and insight reveal?

For those who want to go deeper into the experience of Birth – Death and Enlightenment here is a book written in simple poetic form giving an overview of the big picture of infinity, manifestation and our place in it with an introduction to the pose of Savasana, corpse pose, as the beginning point for inner work and transformation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462856329

Angela Kolias

Born May 15, 1960 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Angela began her search for Truth and Ultimate Reality at the age of eight. Her journey has taken her through Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, meta-physics, quantum physics, psychology (which means “language of the soul” in Greek) and Mysticism. Angela’s journey culminated in the practice of Yoga with alchemy of self transformation and mystical marriage at its core: Union of duality with Infinity. Decades of study and practice have allowed Angela to distill the underlying truth of who we are and why we are here into simple written form.

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Contents

Introduction

Birth-Death-Enlightenment

Birth

Relationships

Union Ayios Gamos The Mystical Marriage

Experience Yoga Practice

Awareness and Alignment

Relaxing, Releasing, Realigning

Life in the Body

Three Magic Wishes

Letter to a Dying Friend

Epilogue

About the Author

Afterword

References

Illustrations

Infinity Breathing

Savasana Corpse Pose

The Inner Smile

OPEN MIND

The art of life is the most distinguished

and rarest of all the arts.

—Carl Gustav Jung,

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Our own personal tragedies can make us

poets or demons,

spiritual giants, or emotional vampires . . .

If only we could understand and learn from them.

Sometimes, we need to actually appreciate our tragedies

and use them as vehicles toward a greater humanity.

If we live with them in a positive manner,

we can even learn to be healers.

Tragedies there be for everyone—some lesser, some

greater—but the one who learns to increase in spirit and

humanity from them is a gift to mankind.

—Orthodox archbishop Lazar Puhalo