Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
Author: Cope, Stephen
ISBN: 9780553378351
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2000
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;More than 100,000 copies sold!Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberationP#8212;a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than ten years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent Pquot;pilgrimP#39;s progressPquot; for todayP#39;s world. He demystifies the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga, and shows how it applies to our most human dilemmas: from loss, disappointment, and addiction, to the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. And he shows us that in yoga, Pquot;liberationPquot; does not require us to leave our everyday lives for some transcendent spiritual planeP#8212;life itself is the path. Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.
ISBN: 9780553378351
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2000
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;More than 100,000 copies sold!Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberationP#8212;a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than ten years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent Pquot;pilgrimP#39;s progressPquot; for todayP#39;s world. He demystifies the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga, and shows how it applies to our most human dilemmas: from loss, disappointment, and addiction, to the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. And he shows us that in yoga, Pquot;liberationPquot; does not require us to leave our everyday lives for some transcendent spiritual planeP#8212;life itself is the path. Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.
