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Black Women's Yoga History
(March 2021)
Memoirs of Inner Peace
Stephanie Y. Evans - Author
Jana Long - Foreword by
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Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.
How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of ensla...(Read More) |
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Tracing the Path of Yoga
(January 2021)
The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline
Stuart Ray Sarbacker - Author
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A comprehensive and theory-rich investigation of the history and philosophy of yoga, from its Indian origins to the contemporary context.
Clear, accessible, and meticulously annotated, Tracing the Path of Yoga offers a comprehensive survey of the history and philosophy of yoga that will be invaluable to both specialists and to nonspecialists seeking a deeper understanding of...(Read More) |
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Stories of School Yoga
(September 2019)
Narratives from the Field
Andrea M. Hyde - Editor
Janet D. Johnson - Editor
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Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.
The yoga-in-schools movement has been gaining momentum in recent years as adult practitioners realize the benefit of yoga in their personal lives and want to share it with children and youth. As the movement has grown, so has the need to understand ho...(Read More) |
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The Art of Gratitude
(May 2018)
Jeremy David Engels - Author
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Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.
In The Art of Gratitude, Jeremy David Engels sketches a genealogy of gratitude from the ancient Greeks to the contemporary self-help movement. One of the most striking things about gratitude, Engels finds, is how consistently it is described using the language of indebtedness. A chief purpose of thi...(Read More) |
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Art as Contemplative Practice
(September 2017)
Expressive Pathways to the Self
Michael A. Franklin - Author
Christopher Key Chapple - Foreword by
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Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.
Drawing upon his personal experience as a practitioner-researcher, visual artist, and cancer survivor, Michael A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting various practice traditions i...(Read More) |
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Engaged Emancipation
(December 2015)
Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Moksopaya (Yogavasistha)
Christopher Key Chapple - Editor
Arindam Chakrabarti - Editor
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A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.
In the Mokṣopāya (also known as the Yogavāsiṣṭha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasiṣṭha counsels his young p...(Read More) |
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Yogi Heroes and Poets
(November 2011)
Histories and Legends of the Naths
David N. Lorenzen - Editor
Adrián Muñoz - Editor
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An exploration of the history, religion, and folklore of the Nāths, a Hindu lineage known for Hatha yoga practice.
This book provides a remarkable range of information on the history, religion, and folklore of the Nāth Yogis. A Hindu lineage prominent in North India since the eleventh century, Nāths are well-known as adepts of Hatha yoga and alchemical practices said to increase longevity. Long a h...(Read More) |
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Asian Texts — Asian Contexts
(March 2010)
Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions
David Jones - Editor
E. R. Klein - Editor
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An overview of some of the great texts of Asian philosophy and religion, along with an exploration of the contexts in which they arose.
In an increasingly global society, non-Western thought can no longer be an afterthought for educators and their students. Asian Texts — Asian Contexts helps bring Asian philosophy and religion into wider classroom consideration by giving nonspecialists entrée to ...(Read More) |
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The Revelation of the Breath
(October 2009)
A Tribute to Its Wisdom, Power, and Beauty
Sharon G. Mijares - Editor
Seyyed Ali Kianfar - Foreword by
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Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath.
Faced with unrelenting stresses from daily news, relationships, health, and financial conditions, and unsatisfied with the temporary and side-effect-riddled relief that pharmaceuticals provide, millions are finding measures of peace and positive energy through mindful breathing practices. In this book, Stanislav Grof, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Sharon G. Mijares...(Read More) |
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Yoga and the Luminous
(October 2008)
Patañjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom
Christopher Key Chapple - Author
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A fresh look at Yoga philosophy.
In Yoga and the Luminous, a book that emerges from more than thirty years of practice, study, and reflection, Christopher Key Chapple addresses the need for an accessible explanation of Yoga’s difficult philosophy and its applications in daily life. Yoga practice takes an individual on an inward journey, and through Yoga, one enters a rarefied state of consciousness...(Read More) |
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