Jan 22, Chaundra rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Tracie Pope. Recommended to Chaundra by: Rachel Burton. Shelves: that-shaped-me , yoga. A great book to reflect over and provides some really wonderful insights into what is a very healing and balanced approach to yoga.
You go through the whole thing thinking "This man speaks sense". I'm not sure I'm quite ready to incorporate all of it into my practice and some of it I might never , but the parts that I have, have made a difference already. A great one for people looking to start to delve a bit deeper into a very authentic, yet adaptable philosophy of yoga.
View 2 comments. May 30, Laura rated it it was amazing. This is an excellent book on all aspects of yoga that is comprehensive without feeling tedious or too heavy.
Written by T. Desikachar, the son of Krishnmacharya, it strikes a perfect tone where you feel like your teacher is beside you guiding you along your journey. Krishnamacharya is credited with spreading yoga to the west, as he taught yoga indiscriminately to both Indians and Westerners alike as well as women small side note: How the Brahmin class for centuries could have thought that w This is an excellent book on all aspects of yoga that is comprehensive without feeling tedious or too heavy.
Krishnamacharya is credited with spreading yoga to the west, as he taught yoga indiscriminately to both Indians and Westerners alike as well as women small side note: How the Brahmin class for centuries could have thought that women were incapable and unsuitable for a spiritual practice when they embody creation is beyond me This book is divided into very manageable chapters and also includes the yoga sutras.
This book would be probably be best for someone who has a basic knowledge of yoga through asana practice and who is looking to understand better the spiritual philosophy behind the practice. Aug 26, Sarah rated it it was amazing. It's hard to really say I'm "finished" with this book, because I've gone back so many times and read and re-read and highlighted so many passages!
Needless to say, this is one of the cornerstones of my yoga journey and practice and the wisdom and practical information in this book keep me coming back time and time again.
Apr 05, Wendy Coulter rated it it was amazing. Feb 28, Ebony Haywood rated it it was amazing. Loved it. Glad I purchased it. I didn't really understand yoga before reading this book. I learned that yoga is way more than being a human pretzel. Yoga is a mind, body and spiritual practice.
It is about experiencing clarity and peace within your moment to moment experiences. I highly recommend this book to anyone even remotely interested in yoga.
Mar 11, i r e n e rated it really liked it Shelves: yogic-thought. Many people want to give everything and everyone a label. Unfortunately, these classifications have become much too important and give the impression that there are fundamental differences between the various forms of yoga.
But really they are all dealing with the same thing, and are only looking at them from different perspectives. If we really follow one direction in yoga as far as we can go, then it will lead us along all paths of yoga.
Desikachar is the son of Tirumalai Krishnamarcharya, one of the greatest yogis of the modern era who taught B. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois and Indra Devi, and is the great grandfather of popular forms of yoga practiced in the west today from Ashtanga Yoga to Jivamukti Yoga.
The more I learn about yoga, the more I feel like a speck of dust incapable of doing justice to this practice. So I took my time with it. I would sit with a page or two for a night, letting it percolate. I have made marks and dog-eared pages because I know I will be returning to it time and time again.
The Yoga Sutras condensed the Vedic thought on yoga into a more accessible system to enlightenment. Consider Heart of Yoga your modern-day bible for the yogi or yogini! Nov 16, Octothorpe Reader Leora K rated it liked it. If its aim was to provide the beginner for the history and basic understanding of the practice, I would not recommend it.
If the aim was to provide in-depth reading material to the highly experienced teacher or practitioner; maybe. As a yoga teacher beginner student, this book made me feel yoga is not for anyone and everyone.
That you need to already know and understand the deep, meaningful, and intensely psychological side of yourself AND should already be familiar with the basic concepts of the 8 limbs of yoga, to be able to practice yoga. It made it hard to continue reading or feel motivated to pick it up and finish.
As a visual person, I prefer a more practiced based guide. An elaboration on how this material could be useful for a yoga teacher This book does have several valuable components for Yoga teachers — I just think that it should be recommended after Yoga Teacher Training.
Then you will be more familiar with the basic concepts and understand them better. As a newbie, this book was very overwhelming and I felt better about the material after we had specific classes about the bandhas, pranayama and the many practices of yoga.
This is the type of book that I want to come back during teaching practice. To review asanas and add breathing techniques for classes. Dec 20, Karli rated it really liked it.
A must read for yoga teacher training. I mean I had to read it for the training but I also find myself referencing it now while creating yoga classes. It has a lot of the basics, the yoga sutras and vinyasa philosophy from its originator. Jun 13, Tani rated it really liked it Shelves: nonfiction , male-author , novels. I'm just a yoga newbie, so a lot of it went over my head. In particular, I didn't enjoy the breakdown of the Yoga Sutras at the end of the book.
However, the parts I found useful were very good, and I feel more welcome and confident in my yoga practice for having read this. Dec 07, Kirtida Gautam rated it it was amazing Shelves: chakra This is one of the best books I have read on Yog. Sep 14, Emma Brunet rated it really liked it.
A very well explained book to start exploring the different spheres of yoga. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who. Truth is not something we have to seek out. It is not something that is absent and far away, requiring great effort to find. Truth is present within you as the Life that is you. Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle, and master each asana with confidence and control. Did you know that yoga practice can help lower your blood pressure, decrease inflammation and prevent age-related brain changes?
Recent scientific research now backs up what were once anecdotal claims. Poems inspired by yoga, meditation and the natural world, by long-term practitioner and teacher of yoga. Enhance your yoga practice with this all-new expanded edition of the ultimate guide to the stories behind the most beloved poses of all time. It is a conscious lifestyle that brings about a profound spiritual and personal transformation.
This book on yoga invites you to experience yoga as the ancient masters intended it-a holistic way of life that unites the body, mind, and spirit for complete health and well-being.
With clear instruction, Dr. Robert Butera guides you through ten steps on the path of yoga that are based on traditional yogic principles and practices, yet designed to fit seamlessly into your life. Yoga enthusiasts of all kinds will discover effective tools for creating a life of healthful beauty and inner peace. Understand the role of physical poses within the larger, holistic system of yoga Practice breathing techniques pranayama , work with your energy centers chakras , and develop your concentration Overcome psychological blocks, balance your emotions, and grow emotionally and spiritually Visit www.
It is an excellent book: thoughtful, reflective, deep, and accessible. Back Care Basics offers the low-cost solution for back care in the new millennium: therapeutic yoga.
Her program encourages both positive health practices and a positive outlook; the important tools needed for prevention and healing. Schatz has designed this program to help those with pain from chronic musculoskeletal back and neck strain, spinal arthritis, osteoporosis, premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, and scoliosis.
Simple and practical ways to heal the back, restructure the body, and cope with stress are taught so that one becomes more sensitive to early warning signs of an impending "back attack" and what to do to ward it off. Scientific Keys Volume I: The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga is a page book with over full color illustrations covering over thirty key muscles as applied to Hatha Yoga including biomechanics and information on the chakras.
Including excerpts of poetic sacred writing from mystical sages through the ages, the book reminds readers that the purpose of yoga is not to improve one's physical health or even to achieve peace of mind although these results may be achieved along the way , but to reach a state of unity with the divine, the goal of mystics from all traditions.
With detailed descriptions and photographs of fifty yoga poses and their alchemical effects on the body and consciousness, Heart Yoga presents yoga as a simple meditative practice that enables the practitioner to dwell in the heart and experience the bliss of union with the sacred power underlying all of life.
Included are the authors' own compelling stories of their individual journeys along the path of yoga: stories of suffering, transcendence, and joy that both inspire and enlighten. This book is both the record of a personal journey and a transformational teaching. Readers will find meditations, prayers, teaching stories, breathing practices, a user's guide for the mind, an introduction to ancient Ayurvedic health principles, and more.
The Heart of Practice is an invitation to explore the place of practice in a life guided by a path. It brings wisdom from the ancient traditions of Chan and Zen alongside insights and methods of Yoga, which links the intelligence of the body with the adventure of consciousness.
This book explains clearly and accessibly the practices of meditation, breath control and posture, highlighting their effect on the person and personality. It reflects on the obstacles that can arise on the path, offering ways to work with these, so as to bring closer our spiritual endeavors and daily life.
Finally, it describes practicing at the most difficult moment of all: when the body falls apart and death approaches. This book will be a precise guide and a steady friend to new practitioners, established students, and also to experienced teachers, in Yoga and in other traditions. The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted to the needs of the individual.
Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. Elements of Krishnamacharya's teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. Krishnamacharya's son T. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga.
Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya's fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual's changing needs to achieve the maximum therapeutic value. In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar offers a distillation of his father's system as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as "a program for the spine at every level--physical, mental, and spiritual.
Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga--poses and counterposes, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy--and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle. This is a revised edition of The Heart of Yoga. But to a legion of journalists and legal reform activists he is Jens Soering, a German citizen who has endured for the past twenty-six years the harshest and most unforgiving punishment this country can offer--a life sentence without realistic hope of release, which some refer to as "the other death penalty.
Yoga is a mind and body practice with a 5,year history in ancient Indian philosophy. Various styles of yoga combine physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or relaxation. This book will help you find that path by giving you the tools you need: - Introduce 4 techniques into your physical Yoga practice to get greater results, easy and fast. Inner stillness. Perfect awareness.
True beauty. Yoga is much more than just a physical activity. It is a conscious lifestyle that brings about a profound spiritual and personal transformation. This book on yoga invites you to experience yoga as the ancient masters intended it-a holistic way of life that unites the body, mind, and spirit for complete health and well-being. With clear instruction, Dr. Robert Butera guides you through ten steps on the path of yoga that are based on traditional yogic principles and practices, yet designed to fit seamlessly into your life.
Yoga enthusiasts of all kinds will discover effective tools for creating a life of healthful beauty and inner peace. Understand the role of physical poses within the larger, holistic system of yoga Practice breathing techniques pranayama , work with your energy centers chakras , and develop your concentration Overcome psychological blocks, balance your emotions, and grow emotionally and spiritually Visit www.
It is an excellent book: thoughtful, reflective, deep, and accessible. Yoga is well known for its power to create a healthy body, but few realize the emotional and spiritual benefits.
In a world now full of commodified and westernised gymnastics sold as yoga, it's difficult for a person to find or even understand an actual yoga practice that is right for them and genuinely transformative. Fortunately for the people of Switzerland and the world, Susanne Daeppen has for over twenty years been dedicated to the practices of Yoga that have come directly from the great tradition via the scholarship of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya and his brilliant son, TKV Desikachar.
With clarity and creativity, Susanne communicates directly from the heart of her own real experience of Yoga, with the passion and depth of a teacher of many years. Accompanied by stunning photography in the wild nature of Iceland by her partner Christoph Lauener, this book is a treasure: real Yoga for real people.
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