Flow Yoga The Mindful Path of Action for Transforming Stress into Happiness

by Banani Ray

Flow yoga is a guide book to physical and emotional health and happiness backed by modern flow psychology and ancient yoga wisdom, which may set your life back on track. Flow yoga will allow you to live a better life by allowing you to appreciate the power of flow in your daily life. The flow state is associated with happiness. It is basically about allowing attention to be focused and erasing psychic imprints from your mind and start afresh again, living life to the fullest without any unwanted thoughts distracting the mind. We all are capable of reaching that state of effortless concentration and enjoyment called "flow" by performing an activity fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In this book Banani Ray has explored the possibility and shares her experience about the practice of consciously inducing Flow in our lives, which she calls ‘Flow Yoga’. The book has the potential to transform the readers from both outside and inside. Flow yoga can transform you from a person seeking for answers from the outside into an individual who is able to identify emotional turmoil, and solve them within. Banani Ray shares her life’s wisdom in an easy-to-understand guide which puts the mind at calm and spontaneous happiness. The book invites you to take the journey of flow yoga, which is very liberating and empowering.

202 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2017

About the author

Banani Ray is a mystic, spiritual guide and an authority on meditation and transformation of consciousness. She teaches Om Inner Sun Meditation, a powerful but simple meditation technique that brings out your inner potential, activates the solar energy in your body, balances the Chakras and enlighten the mind. She is author of several books on meditation, mysticism and infinite human potential. Her passion is to de-mystify meditation and teach meditation as a simple practice for improving lives. She is an outstanding meditation master and spiritual guide who teaches how with a simple daily meditation technique we can reprogram our consciousness and biology to improve health, wealth, relationship and every aspect of our lives. Simple, yet profound and effective, her teaching integrates her knowledge of modern neuroscience, biology, psychology and epigenetics with ancient wisdom revealed to her through deep meditation.

While she was teaching in a women's college, she experienced an awakening, and underwent a massive inner transformation, which led her to undertake deep spiritual practices in the quest for realization of the ultimate truth. For the next nine years, she devoted all her time to meditation.
Ultimately, her quest motivated her to undertake austere spiritual practices and self-enquiry in solitude. For several years, she lived in Himalaya with her husband Amit Ray, living a life dedicated to meditation and spiritual practices. Over the years, a series of mystic experiences opened up for her the door for profound realization of the underlying connectedness and oneness of all beings. She started living her realization, sharing her wisdom through her writings and teaching.

Reviews

[Robert Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished reading this book and it was wonderful! It is written in an interesting style, and it is filled with information about practical application of yoga and flow psychology. I can genuinely say that my life is entirely different from before I began reading this book. I highly recommend this book to those who put too much pressure on themselves to be perfect.

[Elizabeth Duncan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book looks at ordinary things from an extraordinary perspective. Banani Ray masterly weaves the ancient yoga wisdom with the flow psychology. The book shows the ways and challenges the readers to come out of the same rat-hole of ordinary life of boredom to venture in to the exciting realm of Flow, to enter the Flow the yoga way, with mindful action. Loved the book.

[Rebecca Walsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first I thought this book was about some kind of Yoga or exercises. But after I opened the book, I could not put it down. This book is about the psychological experience of Flow and about how that can be our everyday experience even in ordinary jobs.

Flow is important... It is an experience of happiness, a rare joy accompanied with spectacular performance in jobs. This is what athletes say, 'being in the zone'. However seldom we experience it in our ordinary daily jobs at home and at workplace. This book is a compass to reach this supreme experience regularly and make it permanent with a mindset which can be called a Yoga mindset. Enjoyable reading.

[Sally Tucker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am enjoying my job more since I read this book. Banani Ray is an expert in reading and analyzing human mind and behavior. Now I know, why a job may feel boring, when it feels so. I also learnt the trick to overcome boredom and stress. This book showed me the way to 'flow' in my job and get immersed in it.

[Tracey White · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very enlightening book about how to live your daily life, do your daily job and enter the flow-- the optimal state of ecstasy and superb performance.
The book helped me to love my job and be happy in my daily life.