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Beautiful two colour gift package of B.K.S. Iyengar’s yoga-based philosophy for life.
A recognised classic, The Tree of Yoga is B K S Iyengar’s teaching and advice for how to life a long, healthy, happy life.
The Tree is made of many parts – all of which are vital to the health and wholeness of the tree. Like the Tree our lives are made up from many elements – all of which need our care. The Tree of Yoga identifies the important areas according to ancient yoga wisdom – and shows how we can lead a fulfilling, happy life once we understand and pay attention to each special part of life.
Inspirational chapters cover our responsibilities to ourselves and to the other people in our lives over the years as we mature from youth to old age. Including:
• Yoga and health
• Yoga as a part of daily life
• Childhood and parenthood
• Love
• Death
• Faith – hope and spirituality
• Teachers and teaching
This is an accesible book. All the philosophical concepts covered are related directly and specifically to the practice of yoga postures and breathing.
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YOGA, WISDOM FOR A LONG, HEALTHY, HAPPY LIFE.
Each tree has many separate parts – all of which are vital to the health and wholeness of the tree. Like the tree, our lives contain many elements all of which need our care. 'The Tree of Yoga' identifies the important areas according to ancient yoga wisdom – and shows how we can be happy and fulfilled once we understand and pay attention to each special part of our lives.
• Yoga & Health
• Childhood & Parenthood
• Growing Up & Growing Old
• Teachers & Teaching
• Love & partnership
• Death
• Faith, Hope & Spirituality
B K S IYENGAR is the wold's most revered living yoga master. He lives in Pune, India
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Tree of Yoga - Inspirational !,
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This review is from: Tree of Yoga (Hardcover)
I loved the way that this book was written - easy to read (2 or 3 pages on average to each chapter) - making it ideal to dip in and out of again and again. It is the kind of book where you can always find something new.It gives a real feeling of yoga - describing the 8 limbs in terms of a tree. Also including chapters that discuss where yoga can help in terms of health and lifestyle. An inspirational book well worth having - containing a small bit of everything.
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foundational understanding of the simplicity of yoga,
By paula@globalthink.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tree of Yoga (Paperback)
Mr. Iyengar brings the practice and understanding of yoga into everday people terms. He weaves the intricacies of yoga into a picture beginning with the tree and connecting the tree's parts to all the different parts of yoga. It is filled with simplicity and humanness. His knowledge and experience of 80 plus years is weaved together to create a complete understanding of the history of yoga to how to practice it with more wisdom. Mr. Iyengar is an inspiration to those of us who don't intend to give up family, career and laptops to live on mountain tops. He assures us that living as a married man and as a father has not diminished his practice but has enhanced it. A must for beginner and advanced students and teachers for your bookshelf.
39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
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A must read on yoga principles,
By "cattykitt99" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tree of Yoga (Paperback)
While being an avid yoga practicioner, the first time I got to know anything about B.K.S. Iyengar was when I picked up this book. Since then, I have done much more reading by him. Tree of Yoga was wonderful in explaining some basic principles of yoga, and the concepts behind it. The book didn't go into explaining or documenting the various asanas (for that read Light on Yoga), but instead spoke of the history of yoga, the concepts, types, what it was about, etc. I read this book within a night, and have reread it many times since then. It's simple and inspiring, and will forever be a part of my collection. 46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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Light from one of the great teachers of yoga,
By Dennis Littrell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tree of Yoga (Paperback)
B. K. S. Iyengar achieved an international reputation with the publication of his classic Light on Yoga in 1966, which today stands as the definitive work on hatha yoga, a work made distinctive not only by the 602 photographs of Iyengar himself demonstrating the various poses, but by the detailed manner in which they are explained. He was then 38-years-old. Since then he has written several other books on yoga and lectured widely while continuing his teaching practice. He is today recognized as one the greatest of all yoga teachers.In this book, editor Daniel Rivers-Moore has taken it upon himself to construct a narrative by Iyengar, gleaned from lectures given by the master in Europe and India during the nineteen-eighties. Rivers-Moore has done an admirable job of bringing the voice of Iyengar to the many readers who have not had the opportunity to hear him speak. The continuity of expression is maintained throughout, and the book reads as though Iyengar wrote it himself. One sees that Iyengar is speaking to teachers of yoga as well as students. The extended metaphor of yoga as a tree is an apt one since when our practice is strong we are like a tree, solid and unshaken by the vicissitudes of life. But it is only a metaphor, one of many used by Iyengar in his teaching practice. His metaphor is not related to what is one of the most profound metaphorical images in yoga, that of the tree upside down with its branches in the earth and its roots exposed to the sun. It is said that this is the way we will see the world after becoming firmly established in yoga. Much of what we once believed (as children and young adults), we will now disbelieve and embrace the very opposite. The value of asana, pranayama, and meditation in preventing disease and maintaining health has been established beyond doubt, and is one of the great boons humankind has gotten from yoga, and is under no circumstances to be underestimated. However, I took Iyengar's prescriptions for the further medicinal value of yoga with the proverbial grain of salt, just as I take the ancient claims of superpowers developed through the practice of yoga. His is a way of speaking that is native to India and has a long and honored tradition in the literature. One recalls the miraculous claims of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika of Svatmarama and the Siva Samhita, in which all disease is cured, and understands that the authors are speaking in a symbolic and intentional manner. What is most interesting and valuable in this book are the chapters on meditation and pranayama, and on the advice and warnings that Iyengar extends to teachers of yoga. Iyengar's yoga is the yoga of Patanjali, whom he reveres as "the noblest of sages." It is a yoga of discipline and dedication, a yoga of power and grace developed over at least several thousand years of practice. Of the four traditional yogas of India--bhakti, jnana, and karma--it is perhaps the oldest. It is certainly the one with the widest international application since it melds well into any and every way of life, from the monastery to the streets of the city. Iyengar has been described by some as a teacher of physical yoga only--an unfair description that he recalls and rejects in two different places in this book. On the contrary he demonstrates here that he is also a master of raja yoga, and in particular a man who understands that the prerequisites of hatha yoga are essential to the achievement of samadhi. Those who are familiar with Light on Yoga and Iyengar's other works, will find this volume a fine addition to their library and of value because of the light it sheds on the personality and understanding of one of the great teachers of the ancient art of yoga. |
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