Meditations for Wellness and Inspired Living

Yogi Arvind Chittumalla

Feb 2023 · Aravindu Chittumalla

About this ebook

This book aims to help readers create and sustain a meditation practice for a healthy, peaceful, and harmonious life. It contains 25 meditation techniques and six breathing techniques to manage Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Sleep and to create a life of Clarity, Harmony, and Purpose.

The book is written in three parts.

Part I covers the basics of meditation: Introduction to meditation and tips to cultivate a sustained and rewarding meditation practice.

Part II covers six breathing techniques. I highly recommend practicing these breathing techniques before meditation.

Part III covers 25 meditation techniques that can help prevent and manage lifestyle conditions such as stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems and create a life of clarity, harmony, and purpose. The first 15 meditations are done through witnessing, breathing, visualization, and chanting. The following ten meditations incorporate witnessing and contemplation. They touch upon various qualities we ought to have to live a better life.

Towards the end of the book is a glossary of Sanskrit words used in the book. There is also a Sanskrit pronunciation guide. It provides some guidelines for pronouncing Sanskrit vowels and consonants correctly.

About the author

Yogi Arvind Chittumalla (Aravindu Chittumalla) is a spiritual teacher, writer, entrepreneur, and filmmaker. He was first introduced to the different limbs of yoga in his childhood around the age of 10, almost 35 years ago. Over time he learnt from many schools and traditions in India and USA:

Krishnamurthy Foundation

Satyachetana International

Self-Realization Fellowship

Mahayana Buddhist schools

Self-study of Shaivism, Yoga, Sāmkhya, and Vedānta.

Beginning in his 20s, he embraced a yogic lifestyle that integrates all the eight limbs of Rāja Yoga, as prescribed by the sage Patanjali around 500 BC.

He has taught many aspects of Rāja Yoga, such as Meditation, Prānāyama (breathwork), Yoga Philosophy, Sanskrit, and Chanting, since 2007. He uses several meditation techniques during his classes, depending on the needs of the students and their level of practice, such as breath-based meditations, visualizations, analytical (contemplative) meditations, Vipassana (mindfulness), chakra meditations, mantra-based meditations, Yoga Nidra, and more. He advises people from different walks of life about using yogic principles to create a healthy, peaceful, and harmonious life.

As an entrepreneur, Yogi Arvind started multiple wellness ventures over the years.

1. SattvaLife: SattvaLife.com is an online wellness coaching company. The goal of SattvaLife is to help prevent and manage lifestyle-related conditions such as chronic stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and weight issues, using a combination of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Sound Healing. Visit www.sattvalife.com for more information.

2. Yoga Maya Movie: Yoga Maya is an exposé on how yoga is taught, practiced, and marketed in the West. It is a documentary featuring interviews with 12 senior yoga teachers in California and reflections by Yogi Arvind. He produced and directed Yoga Maya. You can watch Yoga Maya on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeZLcRoH4XY

3. Moksha festival: A celebration of Yoga, Ayurveda, Sacred Music & Spiritual Art. This festival began in 2011 and has been organized in many locations in the Los Angeles area in Southern California. www.mokshafestival.com

Yogi Arvind teaches and lives in the Los Angeles area in Southern California. Please visit: www.yogiarvind.com to learn more about him.

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