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| How Yoga Works | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael Roach, Christie Mcnally
Publisher: Diamond Cutter Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (15 reviews)
Sales Rank: 100725
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 406
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0976546906
Dewey Decimal Number: 181.452
EAN: 9780976546900
ASIN: 0976546906
Publication Date: September 25, 2005
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Product Description
Everyone knows that The Yoga Sutra is the ultimate source of all yoga. What you may not realize is that this ancient book also contains all the secrets you need to know in order to heal both your body and your heart; to overcome any kind of illness or unhappiness, and reach a place of splendid health, strength, and peace. The secrets of how yoga really works to make us truly whole are revealed here in a delightful story based on how these precious teachings reached Tibet from their home in India, over a thousand years ago. The authors have spent many years in Tibetan monasteries, trained by some of the last great Lamas of Old Tibet, to read and practice the original ancient manuscripts about how yoga works.
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how yoga works March 29, 2008
A great book. The title is a little decieving at first because it is more of a story and not the typical "how to" book. I definetly think this is a must read for those interested or unfamiliar with the subject. It's much more of a spiritual approach than physical. A very good book.
Essential Reading February 29, 2008
This book is essential reading for anyone on the journey of self discovery through the practice of Yoga. It presents the concepts of the Yoga Sutra in easily digested chapters with a heart opening story of love and triumph. This is a wonderful, and powerful book!
Brian
How yoga works:Healing Yourself and Others with the Yoga Sutras August 9, 2007
I have read a lot of books that have stirred both my intellect and my heart. This book is amongst some of the best I've read. The translations and explanations of the Sutras in a story form is genious.
Fable-like tale explains the sutras January 11, 2007
A group of teachers in our yoga organization are currently reading and discussing this book. I have found this book to simply, but eloquently describe the lessons to be found in Pantanjali's sutras by providing a fable-like tale to wrap them up like a beautiful package. In fact, I have found it to be quite inspiring; I'm now musing over ways to plant new seeds in my life. The book references each sutra by number as it is introduced so one can use a more academic approach by going to your favorite sutra reference book and researching more fully each one as it comes up.
 Easy access to the Sutras November 9, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
To try to read and understand Patanjali without knowledge of context and purpose, without a living teacher and community which can show this wisdom incarnated, is almost invariably to invite frustration. The authors of this book use the conceit of a story in the course of which the wisdom of the sutras is unfolded. The translation of the sutras in the story is fresh and accessible. The commentary on them -- in fact the conversation between characters -- expands the reader's understanding. Certain aspects of the story, particularly its closing chapters, require a rather large suspension of disbelief as the tone becomes increasingly like that of a fairy tale. At times, too, the plot plods forward slowly. Although some may cavil at the fact that not all of the sutras are presented and that those that are are not unfolded in order of their appearance in Patanjali, the overall presentation is certainly faithful to the spirit of the whole. No one is likely to regret having read the book and some will surely benefit from it.
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