Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities or Layayoga

Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature

Author: Henci Goer

Anyone working to improve the childbearing experience and help women avoid unnecessary intervention has encountered numerous "obstetric myths" or "old doctors' tales." And while the evidence in the medical literature may be solidly, often unequivocably, against whatever "the doctor said," without access to that evidence, the pregnant woman is quite reasonably going to follow her doctor. This book is an attempt to make the medical literature on a variety of key obstetric issues accessible to people who lack the time, expertise, access, or proximity to a medical library to research concerns on their own. This compact, accurate, yet understandable reference is designed for people without medical training and organized for easy access.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	The Nature of Evidence: How to Read the Medical Literature	7
Pt. I	The Cesarean Epidemic
3	The Cesarean Rate	21
4	Vaginal Birth After Cesarean	41
5	Labor Dystocia, Failure to Progress, Cephalopelvic Disproportion, and Active Management	83
6	Breech Presentation	107
7	Fetal Distress and Electronic Fetal Monitoring	131
Pt. II	Pregnancy and Labor Management
8	Gestational Diabetes	157
9	Postdates Pregnancy: Induction Versus Watching and Waiting	179
10	Premature Rupture of Membranes at Term	203
11	IVs Versus Eating and Drinking in Labor	221
12	Amniotomy	239
13	Epidural Anesthesia	249
14	Episiotomy	275
Pt. III	The Case for an Alternative System
15	Midwives	297
16	The Freestanding Birth Center	319
17	Home Birth	331
18	The Nature of Evidence (Reprise): Why the Gap Between Belief and Reality?	349
	Glossary
	Index

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Layayoga: The Definitive Guide to the Chakras and Kundalini

Author: Shyam Sundar Goswami

The most comprehensive guide to chakra meditation and the ancient spiritual science of layayoga ever created. 

• One of the great works on yoga, available for the first time in the United States.

• Full-color plates illustrate each chakra. 

With the growing interest in energy medicine in the West, the ancient Hindu tradition of chakra meditation has become increasingly important to both healers and spiritual seekers. While new to us, the chakras have long been studied in the East, with the spiritual science of layayoga having the profoundest knowledge of these energy centers. The fundamental aspect of layayoga is the arousing of dormant energy within the body through concentration and breathing exercises and the movement of this energy through the chakras to achieve supreme consciousness. Unlike kundalini yoga, which starts with the lower chakras and moves energy upward, layayoga meditation starts with the Sahasrara, the spiritual chakra that crowns the aura, and brings energy down to spiritualize each chakra in turn. Layayoga has long been viewed as the most comprehensive and deeply researched examination of the chakras available in the West. Its detailed, illustrated look at each of the chakras and the various meditations and mantras that go with them makes it a must for serious students of yoga. 

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An extraordinary volume ... the last word on the chakras and kundalini. (Georg Feuerstein, author of Lucid Waking)