Sunday, March 30, 2008

Please Be. Seated. Healed. Happy. FREE! NOW!

With great delight, we announce the online birth of Please Be. Seated. Healed. Happy., here, my book that explores the new world of Armchair Yoga. It was written in India, during the past two winters.

Learn helpful postures, breathing techniques and meditations for what ails you. Offered as a three volume set, the format allows readers to select and print just those parts and pieces most helpful for personal healing and well being:

1-Book One focuses on "Why Yoga?" for eliminating all the problems we Earthlings face. Background on yoga and the science behind proper breathing and meditation is provided. An entire chapter shines special attention on Constipation, considered one of the major causes, if not the main cause, of all illness.

2-Book Two offers a general routine for seated Yoga (hence the idea of Armchair Yoga) with demonstration photographs taken on my friend Suja's front porch. Share with your achy and rusty friends and family, to wake up their joints and shoo away pain and the blues. Yoga transforms.

3-Book Three is a handy alphabetized guide to handling today's most common ailments. Learn what you can do for your Asthma, Weight Problems and Headaches. Dozens of challenges we all face daily are listed, with some tips provided for what postures (called ASANAS), breathing (called PRANAYAMA), meditations and dietary changes can help.

The books are not prescriptive, not about medical procedures. Rather, the books are illustrative, about a Yoga practice that can restore your sense of well being and self control. Now is the time to stop looking outside of yourself for answers to your troubles. The answers lie within, and the power to make the change is yours. You are the warden of your prison, Yoga is the key. Remember, Yoga is a Practice. We call it our Yoga Practice, not our Yoga Perfect.

Please accept this invitation to browse our online bookshelf, and freely spread the word. What a thrill to have this medium for tossing words into the Universe! The word BROADCAST originates in the practice used when planting a field...one would BROADLY CAST the seeds, throwing them far and wide.

So, here we are today, BROADCASTING far and wide that the ancient, beautiful healing art of Yoga is available to all modern men and women, particularly those who cannot get down on the floor or back up again. Yes, you, too, can enjoy all the benefits of Yoga, without the floor.


A three volume set offered free, online:

Volume One

Volume Two

Volume Three

by Bethany Knight
March 2008

I wish to publicly thank my dear friend and computer mentor, Morgan Brown, whose patience and talents are the reason Please Be. Seated. Healed. Happy. could be introduced today. Morgan, I appreciate you so much. He tells me that google introduced Gmail (Google Mail) on April 1, 2004 -- four years ago. Thank you, google. And just as google assures its users, what we are offering is FREE and NOW (and this isn't an April Fool's joke!)

2 comments:

  1. You're welcome Bethany. Thank you for the kind and generous words.

    It has been a pleasure working with you on this project of yours and getting it up online for anyone with online access to be able to read, download and print out for themselves as well as those they know who might be interested in the shared wisdom you have learned and are graciously offering to others in this manner.

    Yep, although I had to look it up to find an old news article about it and check what year it was actually done, Gmail (Google Mail) was indeed introduced back on April Fools Day of 2004, four years ago, here [via USA Today].

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  2. Hi Bethany,
    I am Geetha's cousin in Canada and I was asking Geetha about this book.You made my day .I am so glad to get it today so my life becomes more meaning ful here.I have been reading all your blogs published in march starting from fig tree till date.Your thought provoking blog was instrumental in making me turn more inwards.Through your blog I reached world prayer org and akshara gita.Thanks so much and looking forward to more posts from you.Thanks for making armchair yoga available.my email premila1234@yahoo.com

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