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| |  | Stress Management | Home » » » » » Yoga Beyond Belief: Insights to Awaken and Deepen Your Practice | | | | | | | Description: | | Yoga Beyond Belief offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection of valuable insights gleaned from a lifetime of exploration, practice, study, and teaching by one of America’s pioneering and leading teachers of yoga, the book assists readers in making sense of the many discordant claims and teaching techniques that currently exist in the yoga world, freeing readers to pursue their own individual paths of yoga and personal practice. This is an essential text and reference for all yoga practitioners.
The book first sets a context for an open-minded and evolutionary approach to yoga practice, and then explains the core principles of the many branches of yoga. A clear foundation is given for how the physical practices of yoga work to produce remarkable results of health and well being. The chapter Injury, Pain, and Healing shows how to prevent injuries and how to heal injuries should they occur. The reader is given a wealth of sophisticated of tools, insights, and anecdotes gleaned from a lifetime of practice and teaching to develop, hone, and tune his or her personal yoga approach. This book makes yoga come alive for the reader.
The book concludes by going beyond the physical aspects to the heart of yoga. It illuminates and gives insight into the discovery of non-dogmatic forms and evolutionary approaches to meditation and spirituality. It presents a clear argument showing the pitfalls of regimented systems and how to make everything in daily life part of yoga practice and spiritual development.
Ganga White gives us his unique and creative perspectives on a time-tested discipline for a healthy and vital life. Entertaining and thoroughly readable, this book offers a coherent explication of yoga, its philosophy and practice. White’s integrative views will inspire beginners and accomplished yogis to trust their inner wisdom and creatively reassess their practice. He is a great storyteller and gives us his personal and creative perspective, breathing fresh air into an ancient discipline. Yoga Beyond Belief offers an original, integrative approach to body, mind, and spirit that is practical, inspiring, and full of valuable insights to enliven and inform anyone’s yoga practice. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781556436468
• Condition: New
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Ganga White | | Paperback:
| 256 pages | | Publisher:
| North Atlantic Books | | Publication Date:
| January 02, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1556436467 | | Product Length:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.99 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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 Great for the new and the experienced!Sep 02, 2010
This book takes you outside of the classroom (or living room) to help you understand yoga and its many benefits. It compares tradition with science and experience, and encourages the reader to take a fresh look at his or her own experience. Rather than pushing a specific set of beliefs and requirements, each individual is given tools to identify his or her own.
The Many Facets of YogaSep 02, 2009
Ganga White's book, Yoga Beyond Belief,is one of the best books on the market for the yoga field. It is written in an easy to understand manner, yet provides such a wealth of information to learn. It helps ignite you to understand what your mind and body are telling you and how to respond. He integrates facts about the anatomical, psychological, spiritual, and physical benefits of yoga in this book. It is a book that you will want to read again because you catch something new each time. I would highly suggest that new, as well as established yoga practitioners read this book to get an even better understanding of how and what the practice of yoga and meditation can do for them. Definitely one of those books that makes you really think and expand your current mindset for the better. Some may think they don't have time to read books; however, make the time to read this one...for it will give you time if you glean what is being said.
Valerie Goodman
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 Yoga beyond belief reviewJul 04, 2009
This book was in good condition but took almost two weeks to get to me. I was very unhappy with the timing.
Refreshingly insightfulOct 24, 2008
I found the overall discussion of the place of yoga in the modern world very relevant and thorough. Most books on yoga philosophy quote Patanjali and although in a relevant fashion, it is the questioning that one comes across not frequently enough. I think old philosophies need to be evaluated and modified to suit the needs of the times. As the Dalai Lama says if some philosophy does not make sense in terms of modern wisdom, scientific or otherwise, then we need to reevaluate it accordingly. Ganga White does bring up a similar idea and I think that is what I found to be the strong point of this book. Even in the discussion of the simple sitting posture White describes its physiological benefit and that is an appealing feature of this book to me. Leave aside the benefits of twists or inversions, the simple idea of the benefit of sitting down on the floor, off the chair makes lot of sense to me. Thanks Mr. White for the thoughts and ideas.
it does what it says in the titleSep 07, 2008
I went to Ganga Whites teacher training at the White Lotus Foundation and this book really opened up my practice and prepared me for a life changing experience doing his teacher training. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wants to take their practice further, start a personal practice, or just learn more about yoga.
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