Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness
by Erich Schiffmann
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Author: Erich SchiffmannEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-12-01
ISBN: 0671534807
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Gallery Books
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Book Review: One of the best books on yoga out there
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent how-to for just about anyone interested in learning about hatha yoga as experience, both as pose and meditation. Even if you've been practicing for many years (as indeed I had been when I purchased this book), you will learn a lot.
Schiffmann does not rush into a discussion on asanas as most books on yoga do. Instead, he spends the first eighty or so pages talking about the intangibles needed for each pose, including the right mindset, breathing techniques, body awareness of tension (or prana) in each pose, and the intuition to work with those tensions to become more comfortable with and aware of oneself in a pose.
Only then does he discuss the experience and benefits of many basic poses, including standing poses, sun salutations, backbends, forward bends, inversions, twists, and shoulder and hip openers. He talks about how to move into each pose, introduces preparatory stretches to each pose, and details how to deepen a pose into another stage once the body has become more experienced and flexible with time. Each pose and its different stages are depicted with photos and just enough biology in Schiffmann's accessible prose to ensure that the reader knows what body part should be where. His very useful concluding chapters on meditation are more or less non-denominational and in any event genuine, and so likely to speak to everyone, spiritual agenda or no.
He emphasizes self-acceptance as a road to self-discovery (rather than self-discovery as a road to self-transformation) by encouraging the reader to let themselves experience exactly where they are in a pose on any given day. The clear overtone is that accepting how we experience a pose right here, right now, opens the door to understanding, accepting, and even savoring who we are.
Definitely make room for this book in your budget.
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