What is Yoga? How can I, as a Westerner, be part of this 5,000- year-old Yoga tradition and lineage? How can the teachings of Yoga help bring the best out in people and enable us to cope better with today’s global and climate challenges? This short but comprehensive book offers all practitioners of Yoga a way to step into this ancient tradition with full awareness and appreciation of its teachings, practices, and sacred texts. Despite the misleading image of Yoga one can find on social media, Yoga is more than physical exercises. It is accessible to all. It does not require any sophisticated equipment nor special clothing and can be practiced anywhere, anytime or age. The book demonstrates how Yoga – through the practice of peace, wisdom, inner balance, and freedom – is a path of self and collective transformation, leading to a change of consciousness that is necessary to solve the challenges the world is facing. The first section of the book explains in simple terms using the form of a dialogue, what Yoga is, and provides the essential elements of how to initiate this journey inwards. Insights are also provided for readers who wish to dive into complex subjects or historical elements. The second section of the book offers detailed summaries of some of the key sacred texts mentioned in the dialogue, including The Vedas, Upanishad, The Bhagavad Gita and The Yoga Sutras. This book is co-written by Cesare Maramici, Lissia Amach and Ana Giselle Kafie, seasoned Yoga practitioners coming from different backgrounds, origins and Yoga lineages and committed to spreading the knowledge of Yoga to contribute in all humility to a more sustainable, inclusive and caring world.
Yoga as explained to my daughter. Everything you need to know to practice Yoga with awareness
