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286 (Illustrated throughout in Black and White)Back of the BookThis book offers new insights into the age-old discipline of Solar Yoga. It treats a carefully selected number of classical Yoga practices in a novel manner, integrating the use of sound vibrations with that of postures and breathing techniques at the physical, psychic and spiritual levels. Because of its clear and methodical approach, SOLAR YOGA can be enjoyed by everyone. New students will find the book a valuable and well-illustrated guide for their practice. Yoga teachers will be able to use it as a handy reference manual and the general reader will find it a synthesis of the philosophical background to the solar method and a comprehensive description of its application to every day life.Yogacharya Janakiraman, a long-time devotee of Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba, was a recognized authority on Yoga who, for some years, combined the teaching of this discipline with his profession as an aeronautical engineer in Bangalore, India before moving to Europe. In 1986, he founded the International Aditya Yoga Association with Caroline Rosso Cicogna in Trieste, Italy. An accomplished devotional singer and a Yoga therapist, he trained Yoga teachers who are disseminating his method in Australia, India and Europe.Caroline Rosso Cicogna, a disciple of Sree Ananda Mayee Ma, is a simultaneous interpreter by profession. She lived many years in India and came in contact with some of the great living Masters of Yoga in India and underwent a thorough training in the disciplines she writes about in this book. In Italy, she taught Yoga with Sri Janakiraman at their centre in Trieste. She is now living in Nice, France where she dedicates her sadhana to Matri Yoga.PrefaceSalutations and adorations to surya Narayana, the Sun God. The sun is a visible