Wisdom of Yoga A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

Name: Wisdom of Yoga A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living
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ISBN: 9780553380545

ISBN-10: 0553380540

ISBN-13: 9780553380545

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Authors: Stephen Cope

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For modern spiritual seekers and yoga students alike, here is an irreverent yet profound guide to the most sophisticated teachings of the yoga wisdom tradition- now brought to contemporary life by a celebrated author, psychotherapist, and leading American yoga instructor. While many Westerners still think of yoga as an invigorating series of postures and breathing exercises, these physical practices are only part of a vast and ancient spiritual science. For more than three millennia, yoga sages systematically explored the essential questions of our human existence: What are the root causes of suffering, and how can we achieve freedom and happiness? What would it be like to function at the…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Stephen Cope is a psychotherapist and senior yoga teacher at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, the largest residential yoga center in the United States. An Amherst College graduate with further studies at Episcopal Divinity School and Boston College, he is Kripalu's Scholar-in-Residence and is featured on the bestselling Kripalu "Dynamic Yoga" video.



Introduction


Prologue: Seekers, Then and Now



The Problem of Ordinary Unhappiness


Jake: The Quest for the Firebird



The Secret Strength of Disillusionment



Close Encounters with Mind



Quiet Desperation



Illumined Mind in Everyday Life


Maggie: The Search for Authentic Self-Expression



Tying the Puppy to a Post



Explorers of Inner Space



Karma and Character: The Bondage to Pattern


Susan: Filling the Hungry Heart



The Roots of Suffering



The Laws of Cause and Effect



The Web of "I"



The Freedom in Skillful Action


Kate: The Invisible Suffering of Delusion



The Hidden Power of Restraint



Practice the Opposite



At the Still Point of the Turning World



Breath, Trust, and the Transmutation of Hunger



Meditative Transformations of Self


Rudi: Living at Ease in the World



The Vision of Sameness



Shiva's Dance: Insight and Dissolution



The End of Striving



Yoga and Buddhism



The Yoga-Sutra in English



Glossary


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index