Yoga for the Three Stages of Life: Developing Your Practice as an Art Form, a Physical Therapy, and a Guiding Philosophy Paperback - 2001

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MORE BOOKS ON YOGA HAVE BEEN WRITTEN in the past twenty years than ever before, perhaps since Vedic times.

From the rear cover

YOGA Are you ready to devote your life to yoga? For thirty‑three years Śrīvatsa Rāmaswāmī studied with the legendary T. Krishnamāchārya, the most influential figure in the field of yoga in the past hundred years and teacher of B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and T. K. V. Desikachar. Since that time he has developed Krishnamāchārya's teaching into what may be the most highly evolved program available for making yoga a way of life, rather than simply a routine. In thought‑provoking discussions and hundreds of photographs, Rāmaswāmī lays out a life's worth of yoga teachings, including principles for right living, postures, breathing practices, meditation practices, and mental disciplines. Key to Rāmaswāmī's teaching is the focus on adapting yoga to individual needs and to different stages of life. During the early part of life, learning yoga as a physical art form is most beneficial for the self‑confidence and discipline it instills. In middle age, yoga should focus on physical therapy and maintaining optimum health as far into life as possible. In the last stages of life, the practitioner will be ready to focus on the ultimate goal--true understanding of the philosophy behind yoga and the realization of truth. SRIVATSA RAMASWAMI has taught yoga in universities, hospitals, and schools in India for more than twenty years. A familiar figure on Indian radio and television, he now teaches workshops throughout the United States as well.