Living in the Light
Yoga for Self-Realization
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Reach your highest potential and a deeper understanding of self with Deepak Chopra’s groundbreaking guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga.
Royal Yoga is the highest and most important of the yoga traditions—an all-embracing path to personal transformation that reaches beyond any approach to wellness and healing that exists today. Whatever you are doing to enhance your life, Royal Yoga can bring you more of everything you want; it brings every experience, no matter how small, into the light. By learning to live in the light, you deliberately and consciously accept your true self as a being of infinite possibilities, unfettered by worry or self-doubt.
In this groundbreaking new work, international bestselling author Deepak Chopra and his coauthor Sarah Platt-Finger, yoga director at Chopra Global and co-founder of ISHTA Yoga, offer an illuminating program for self-realization, bliss, and wholeness. Combining a practical thirty-day program that will help you break limiting habits and belief systems with an in-depth exploration of fifty stimulating and restorative yoga poses, Deepak and Sarah provide a thorough and inspiring way to unite the mind, body, and soul.
With new insights on social and emotional intelligence, the power of attention, body awareness, breathing, wholeness, and transcendence, and with dozens of specially commissioned illustrations of yoga poses (accessible for all skill levels, from beginner to enthusiast), Living in the Light provides the ultimate guide to your exciting, bright, and enlightening future.
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"Royal Yoga can bring you more of everything you want," contend bestseller Chopra (Abundance) and yoga teacher Platt-Finger in this uneven program. The authors outline a six-week plan for "living consciously" through the practice of raja, or "royal," yoga, which focuses on achieving wholeness through "bringing light" to one's social life, emotions, and body, as well as embracing one's energy and achieving awareness of knowledge that "exists beyond the senses." Chopra, who helms the first half, breaks down each week by day, encouraging readers to start the second week by facing one's "feelings honestly without denying or repressing them," and then close it out by turning one's "attention to what life means," though details on how to do either are scant. Platt-Finger provides the second half, which homes in on the philosophy and practices of yoga. She suggests the body is "so much more than a shape; it is a process," as she offers an overview of various asanas (poses), chakras (energy centers), gunas (natural qualities), and shariras (bodies of energy). The hazy discussions of "energy," "light," and "awareness" will leave some readers scratching their heads, though the illustrated survey of 54 yoga poses fares better with its pragmatic focus and details on the poses' physical and therapeutic benefits. Overall, this is hit-or-miss.
