By Darren Main,Stephen Cope
In Yoga and the trail of the city Mystic, Darren major bargains a clean, down-to-earth method of the time-tested perform and philosophy of yoga. He exhibits us find out how to observe the traditional knowledge of India to each element of existence. From paintings and relationships, to dying and dying—allowing even our busiest days to develop into strong and mystical adventures, full of the entire ask yourself and magic that used to be reserved for these dwelling as priests and nuns.
This isn't a e-book approximately perfecting yoga asanas or pranayama respiring recommendations. it's a publication approximately altering the way in which we see the world—transforming each adventure and courting right into a yoga perform unto itself.
Since academics like Swami Vivakananda and Paramahansa Yogananda introduced yoga to the West, yoga scholars and lecturers alike have sought to combine the perform and philosophy of yoga into glossy existence. discover why this best-selling yoga e-book has been utilized in yoga instructor education courses internationally and has develop into a contemporary non secular classic.
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With mild humor and visible wisdom, Darren major stocks with us his perform and realizing of yoga. He does a stunning task of interspersing his lifestyles stories with the classical teachings in a fashion that makes them transparent and alive. you'll get pleasure from this book.
—Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D. writer of 30 crucial Yoga Poses and residing Your Yoga
Our city life may drastically take advantage of somewhat mysticism. To reside in a mystical, mystical international one in simple terms has to discover the capability of their personal day-by-day lives. Darren major supplies us a how-to ebook on yoga, which deals us how you can rework the mundane into the mystical.
—Sharon Gannon, writer of Jivamukti Yoga
Darren major is splendidly gifted at bringing the essence of dwelling yoga off the mat absolutely to existence for all who're at the yoga course. He writes in a pleasant and obtainable tone that makes usually esoteric philosophical strategies effortless to know in functional ways in which you may practice in lifestyle. I hugely suggest this publication to all yoga scholars and lecturers drawn to extra deeply exploring the perform at the mat and bringing all of it extra commonly into their lifestyles out within the greater world.
—Mark Stephens, instructing Yoga: crucial Foundations and Techniques
A sensible, easy-to-read highway map to turning into an city Mystic
—Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. writer of Shortcuts to God and Love is Letting cross of Fear
In Yoga and the trail of the city Mystic Darren major has given us an excellent doorway into the possibly complicated international of raja yoga. His paintings presents us with a compelling yet available Baedeker to the occasionally dense global of Indian metaphysics. it's a yoga statement with a uniquely American voice. it's piquant, experience-near, genuine, modern, and extremely delicate to the reader for whom the area of Sanskrit phrases and Indian principles is totally new and overseas. Darren’s paintings, like raja yoga itself, is distinctive and methodical in its method of non secular practice.
—Stephen Cope writer of Yoga and the hunt for the real Self
Darren major takes yoga off the yoga mat—adroitly using the traditional method of yoga to the day-by-day demanding situations of the trendy mystic. Combining own perception and anecdotes with functional, down-to-earth teachings, he brings you right into a international during which everything of your lifestyles has sacred and transformative potential.
—Yogi Amrit Desai founding father of Kripalu Yoga, Lenox, MA, and writer of Amrit Yoga
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