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The Tree Of Yoga
The Tree of Yoga discusses the essential elements of our daily lives which require our care. According to ancient yoga wisdom, we can lead a fulfilled once we comprehend and pay attention to each of these elements. This book includes the author’s wisdom on: yoga and health; childhood and parenthood; growing up and growing old; teachers and teaching; love and partnership; death; and faith, hope, and spirituality.
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Light On Yoga
Light On Yoga is a definitive guide about Yoga, a rigorous discipline for attaining physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. It is aimed at beginners as well as advanced practitioners of Yoga. The book begins a foreword by Yehudi Menhuin, a famous violinist and a friend of the author. It is divided into three parts. The first part contains an introduction to Yoga, tracing its historical origin to ancient India. The second part is dedicated to yogasanas, bandhas, and kriyas. It covers numerous asanas or poses in great detail. Each asana is illustrated by a photograph. This is followed by step-by-step instructions that will help with perfecting the asana. The benefits of each pose, the ailments it cures, and the precautions it requires are also included. The third part of the book is dedicated to the concept of Pranayama, a form of yogic breathing. It covers the technique of pranayama, its precautions, its effects, and its types. The book ends with two appendices. The first one provides the sequence in which the asanas are to be performed. The second appendix recommends specific asanas for targeting and curing specific diseases. Light On Yoga was first published in 1966. Since then, it has been considered to be a must-have for serious practitioners of Yoga. It has been translated into sixteen languages including German, Hebrew, Korean, and Italian. This particular edition is a 2004 reprint by Thorsons. It has been updated to bring a cleaner and more structured look to the original classic.
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The Art Of Yoga
Yoga is considered to be among the best ways of keeping the mind and body, heart and soul in a state of peace and harmony. Even the westerners are in agreement with following Yoga. It is also about doing actions with purity and beauty, which is art, which elevates a person from being just a person to being an artist. The book also has artistic interpretations of the mastered postures.
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Light On Life
The world’s most venerated yoga teacher sheds light on life through the prism of yoga ‘Yoga allows you to achieve a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit the broken pieces together. Yoga allows you to find and inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life. Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known existed.’ Here, B. K. S. Iyengar, founder of the style of yoga teaching known as Iyengar yoga, invites both those new to yoga and those who are experienced practitioners on an inward journey designed to increase their physical stability, emotional vitality, mental clarity, intellectual wisdom and spiritual bliss. In this warm, witty, lucid and helpful book he addresses the role that yoga postures and breathing techniques play in our search for wholeness, the external and internal obstacles that keep us from progressing along the path, and how yoga can help us life in harmony with the world around us. He uses stories from his own life, humour and examples from modern culture to illustrate that the awareness that yoga offers can improve our lives in many practical and profound ways.
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Core of the Yoga Sutras: The Definitive Guide to t
A wonderful introduction to the spiritual philosophy that is the foundation of yoga practice The latest work from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga teacher.Foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Preface by Shri Murali Manohar Joshi. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar's unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the practice, as well as a mindset of 'yoga for all', which has made it into a worldwide phenomenon. His seminal book, 'Light on Yoga', is widely called 'the bible of yoga' and has served as the source book for generations of yoga students around the world. In 'Core of the Yoga Sutras', he applies this same clarity to the philosophical core of yogaThe Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are 196 aphorisms forming the foundational text of yoga philosophy. Each sutra is short and to the point each being only a line or two long. B.K.S. Iyengar has translated each one, providing an insightful commentary and explanation for modern readers, as well as linking the various themes throughout the sutras to one another. Each sutra is presented as Sanskrit text, transliteration and English translation, followed by B.K.S. Iyengar's unique commentary and authority only he can bring to the work. B.K.S. Iyengar's insight on the sutras show the reader how we can transform ourselves through the practice of yoga, gradually developing the mind, body and emotions, so we can become spiritually evolved.
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Light On the Yogasutras of Patanjali
The yoga philosophy was first described in the Yoga Sutra, a collection of aphorisms offered more than 2,000 years ago by the Indian sage, Patanjali. The Sutras were the earliest and are still the most profound and enlightening-study of the human psyche. In them, Patanjali describes the enigma of human existence
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The Illustrated Light On Yoga
The Illustrated Light on Yoga is a straightforward and comprehensive introduction for the beginner by the acknowledged expert on the subject. Illustrated throughout with 150 photographs carefully positioned in the relevant part of the text for easy reference, it includes: • An introduction to the philosophy and practice of yoga • Detailed descriptions of 57 key postures • Techniques for stilling the mind through breathing exercises • A 35-week course progressing from beginner to intermediate level • A full glossary of yoga terms