Yoga Books to inspire and help with your practice
Here you will find several excellent books to help in your understanding,
immersion and interest in Yoga
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Anatomy of the Spirit.
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Autobiography of a Yogi.
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Conscious Living..
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Essence of
Spiritual Life..
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Sacred
Journey
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Samadhi
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Power of Now.
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A Path with a Heart.
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Anger: The Buddhist Way.
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Creating True Peace.
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The Little Book of Wisdom.
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The Little Book of Complete Bollocks.
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For more general yoga books we have an Iyengar section. Also there is a section on Ashtanga Yoga and a section on yoga books.
The yoga magazine section not only holds most of the best yoga magazines but it also has an excellent Yoga International reprint series that deals with the most important areas of yoga.
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Anatomy of the Spirit
Caroline Myss
This text seeks to show the links between emotional and spiritual stresses and specific illnesses in the context of the anatomy of the human energy system, linking the emotional, psychological and physical factors that lie at the root of illness. It presents Myss's model of the body's seven centres of spiritual and physical power in which she synthesizes the ancient wisdom of three spiritual traditions - the Hindu chakras, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalah's tree of life. With this model Myss seeks to show how you can develop your personal power and spiritual maturity, to understand the anatomy of your spirit, the spiritual causes of illness, how to sense and correct an energy imbalance before it expresses itself as physical illness, and how to recover emotionally and physically from an illness you may already have.
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The Power of Now
Ekhart Tolle
Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, Tolle's clear writing, supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means. Foremost, Tolle is a world-class teacher, able to explain complicated concepts in concrete language. More importantly, within a chapter of reading this book, readers are already holding the world in a different container--more conscious of how thoughts and emotions get in the way of their ability to live in genuine peace and happiness.
Tolle packs a lot of information and inspirational ideas into The Power of Now. (Topics include the source of Chi, enlightened relationships, creative use of the mind, impermanence and the cycle of life.) Thankfully, he's added markers that symbolise "break time". This is when readers should close the book and mull over what they just read.
Check out his audio course - Realizing the Power of Now
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A Path with a Heart
Jack Kornfield
If you only buy one book on Buddhism let it be "A Path With Heart!" With wise and skillful words, Jack Kornfield is a master of teaching Buddhist practices including insight meditation (known as Vipassana) to Western students for over 20 years. Being a former Buddhist monk with a PHD in psychology, as well as a husband and father, he is able to communicate the practice of Buddhism in everyday life in a way that makes sense to Western minds. Kornfield embraces the stuggles and hindrances that are common to the spiritual path as well as offering timely and useful meditations for awakening, opening the heart and clear and humorous insight into basic Buddhist principles such as the 5 precepts, the Buddhist view of self (or lack thereof) and karma. With open arms and a deep understanding of the Western psyche and it's tangles, Kornfield delivers a book that is a love song, a workout and a survival manual for anyone committed to the spiritual path.
See also his "After the Ecstasy, the Laundry."
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Anger: The Buddhist Way
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Buddha taught that three states of mind are the source of all our unhappiness: ignorance, obsessive desire and anger. Anger is one of the most powerful emotions, and one of the hardest to change.Buddhist monk, activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Thich Nhat Hanh, offers a fresh perspective on taking care of anger. Laced with interesting stories and practical techniques this unabridged audio production offers a wise and loving look at transforming such an explosive emotion into peace, bringing harmony and healing to all areas and relationships in our lives that have been affected by anger.
Thich Nhat Hanh suggests a fresh approach to taking care of our anger - by treating it as we would a crying baby. Using stories and techniques, this prominent Buddhist scholar offers a look at transforming anger into peace, in order to bring harmony and healing to all areas of our lives.
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Creating True Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh
Breakout book on peace by one of the world's greatest spiritual leaders - being published during a year full of global conflict.
Thich Nhat Hanh has been a foremost peace activist for four decades. A highly respected spiritual leader who is also a philosopher, scholar and student of human nature, he is, in many ways, very similar to the Dalai Lama. His knowledge, wisdom and experience on peacemaking make him a suitable candidate to talk authoritatively on this topical subject. In this manifesto he shows conflict to be an inappropriate response that we can no longer afford on a personal or global level. He also offers practical spiritual training for individual and world peace which reveals the powerful daily actions and interactions that can root out conflict from us all.
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The Little Book of Wisdom
Dalai Lama
Offers some of the Dalai Lama of Tibet's most helpful insights on daily living, inner peace, compassion and justice. A beautiful little companion to have on the bedside table or in the meditation room
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The Little Book of Complete Bollocks
Alistair Beaton
Having trouble coping? Friends deserting you on account of your portfolio of character defects? It's time to act. Chase away those deep-seated psychological flaws with a little book of advice to suit your own unique personality deficiency. And there is no need to restrict yourself to a single volume either. Why get the goldfish bowl feng shui-ed if you are still fighting the urge to take it to work with you and crash it over your boss's head? To enjoy The Little Book of Complete Bollocks you need only two things-a healthy scepticism for all things self-help (although let's face it, you may well have dabbled in the past--it adds to the fun if you've got first-hand experience) and most important of all, an all-consuming desire to rip the living daylights out of the next person who tells you that you that the north-west corner of your living room needs a goldfish (it's a wealth and prosperity thing. Probably.). The Little Book of Complete Bollocks may not make you any friends, but it may just help you get up in the morning, look in the mirror and say "hey, you're looking good. Today I'm going to fall in love with myself again and tell the world what a special, giving person I am"
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