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YOGA MORALITY :
Ancient Teachings at a Time of Global Crisis
by Georg Feuerstein
In an age when yoga is becoming a fashion accessory, placed
amongst Pilates and circuit training in the "body beautiful" trend,
this is a most welcome book.
In a world where hundreds of children are violently killed by the
armies of "democratic" nations (as happened over Christmas in Gaza),
this is an indispensable book.
In times like ours when lies, broken promises and corruption have
become normalized within political and diplomatic circles, and when
greed is considered a virtue in the corporate world, morality may
however seem a quaint subject to many.
Two thousand years after Patanjali, the author, who has written more
than thirty books on yoga and is widely regarded as one of the world's
foremost authorities on yoga, reminds us that yoga is first and
foremost a spiritual pursuit, and that the backbone of any spiritual
pursuit is morality.
Looking closely at the five key virtues or yamas (nonharming,
truthfulness, nonstealing, nongrasping (greedlessness) and chastity)
which constitute the first limb of hatha yoga philosophy, he details
how they can be applied in today's rapidly changing world.
This book should appeal to genuine practionners of yoga, regardless of
what style they practice or how much experience they have.
Reviewed by
Christophe Mouze
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Yoga posture adjustment
and assisting
An insightful guide for yoga teacher and students
Stephanie Pappas
Trafford Publishing
Written by a very experienced teacher
and teacher trainer, this book details teaching techniques for nearly 100
yoga postures. Stephanie makes a useful distinction between adjusting, which
she describes as a short alteration or correction to the student's posture,
and assisting, which involves helping a student to go deeper into an asana,
and therefore lasts longer.
Packed with very valuable tips and practical advice, this book should be
near the top of the reading list of anyone currently training to be a
yoga teacher, and even experienced teachers will pick up new ideas from it.
It has, however, definitely been written with yoga teachers in mind, and
yoga students would be better off getting a copy of Iyengar's "Light on
yoga".
But it certainly should be on every yoga teacher's bookshelves. In the short
time it's been on mine, I have found myself referring to it more than once.
Click
here to order this book
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