Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

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Millions of Americans know yoga as an excellent type of train and as a potent supply of calm in the midst of our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are conscious of the full promise of yoga as “the way of the fully alive human being”–a 4,000-year-old sensible path of liberation that matches the wants of recent Western seekers with startling precision.Now one in every of America’s main students of yoga psychology–who can be a Western-trained psychotherapist–offers this marvelously energetic and private account of an historic custom that guarantees “the soul awake in this lifetime.”  Drawing on the vivid tales of practitioners at the largest yoga middle in America, the place he has lived and taught for greater than ten years, Stephen Cope describes the philosophy, psychology, and follow of yoga–a sensible science of growth that urges us to not transcend or dissolve the self, however quite to come across it extra deeply.In this irreverent modern-day

Pilgrim’s Progress

, Cope introduces us to an unforgettable solid of latest seekers–on the highway to enlightenment carrying all the baggage of the human situation: confusion, loss, disappointment, dependancy, and the everlasting conflicts round intercourse and relationship. As he describes the refined shifts of vitality and consciousness that occur at every stage of the path, we uncover that in yoga, “liberation” doesn’t require us to go away life in the world for some transcendent non secular airplane. Life itself is the path.Above all, Cope reveals how yoga can heal the struggling of self-estrangement that pervades our society, main us to a brand new sense of objective and to a deeper, extra satisfying life in the world.