Living Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide for Daily Life

By Stephan Bodian

Book Overview

Explore the many paths of yoga. Yoga has been a living tradition of spiritual teaching for five thousand years. Here, readers will discover the wisdom of the millennia--and learn to live yoga . This book contains the best of Yoga Journal the most outstanding interviews, essays, illustrations, and photographs. It offers the promise of hatha yoga exercise for health, and the yoga approach to diet and nutrition. It teaches meditation as an antidote to stress and a path to mindfulness. It explores the yoga of love and devotion in relationships; karma yoga, the path of work; and tantra yoga, the path of ritual, creativity, and sexuality. The authoritative contributors and wide-ranging topics here include: - Ram Dass on life as service - Joan Borysenko on the healing power of love - Larry Dossey on illusions about the body - Judith Lasater on asanas , or hatha yoga postures - Thich Nhat Hanh on the nature of suffering - Ken Wilber on the role of meditation - Frances Vaughan on the common ground between psychotherapy and spirituality - Daniel Coleman on early-warning signs for detecting spiritual abuse - John Welwood on spiritual relationships - Georg Feuerstein on sacred sexuality - Jacob Needleman on money and the path - Joanna Macy on caring for the earth Also richly illustrated, Living Yoga celebrates a fresh vision of life for spiritual seekers. Beginners will find an accessible, far-reaching overview of the topic; advanced practitioners will be reminded once again of the value and promise of yoga.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874777291
• ISBN13: 9780874777291
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent simple guide

I loved reading this book. Once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. It talks about how to live a yogi lifestyle including nutrition. It has some positions, but basicaly a general understanding of yoga.

A very general introduction that is easy to read.

This book basically is a collection of articles and writings that were published in Yoga Journal, and written by other people that are well respected figures in the Yoga lifestyle. It explains the history and traditions of Yoga, different schools of thought and practice. It is very general, and touches on many different topics, but does not go into much depth about anything, which makes it very easy to read for the beginner of Yoga to get a broad introduction of what's out there, and what it is.

A modern classic

This book covers all the bases and gives you everything you need to know about yoga philosophy and tradition. With all the offshoot yogas around today, it's so nice to find a book that describes traditional yoga philosophy and practice in an inviting, easy-to-read way. I like that it's a collection by dozens of different writers. You get lots of points of view, but not contradiction. I love this book and refer to it time and again.

Easy Reading Intro. to Yoga's Theory

This book is recommended to everyone in our beginner's yoga course. This book gives an easy to understand introduction to the major branches of yoga. Yoga is much more than stretching and this book will show you how yoga can improve all facets of your life. Yoga includes numerous schools, Hatha Yoga for body and mind, Karma Yoga for proper attitude of work (great for stress management), Bhakti Yoga for emotions and devotion, Jnana Yoga that discusses knowledge and Raja Yoga which teaches meditation. A beginner will be able to access this book easily.