{"product_id":"yoga-beyond-belief-isbn-9781556436468","title":"Yoga Beyond Belief","description":"\u003ci\u003eYoga Beyond Belief\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific  and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements  existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection  of valuable insights gleaned from a lifetime of exploration, practice, study, and  teaching by one of America’s pioneering and leading teachers of yoga, the book assists  readers in making sense of the many discordant claims and teaching techniques that  currently exist in the yoga world, freeing readers to pursue their own individual  paths of yoga and personal practice. This is an essential text and reference for  all yoga practitioners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book first sets a context for an open-minded and evolutionary  approach to yoga practice, and then explains the core principles of the many branches  of yoga. A clear foundation is given for how the physical practices of yoga work  to produce remarkable results of health and well being. The chapter Injury, Pain,  and Healing shows how to prevent injuries and how to heal injuries should they occur.  The reader is given a wealth of sophisticated of tools, insights, and anecdotes gleaned  from a lifetime of practice and teaching to develop, hone, and tune his or her personal  yoga approach. This book makes yoga come alive for the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book concludes  by going beyond the physical aspects to the heart of yoga. It illuminates and gives  insight into the discovery of non-dogmatic forms and evolutionary approaches to meditation  and spirituality. It presents a clear argument showing the pitfalls of regimented  systems and how to make everything in daily life part of yoga practice and spiritual  development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ganga White gives us his unique and creative perspectives on a time-tested  discipline for a healthy and vital life. Entertaining and thoroughly readable, this  book offers a coherent explication of yoga, its philosophy and practice. White’s  integrative views will inspire beginners and accomplished yogis to trust their inner  wisdom and creatively reassess their practice. He is a great storyteller and gives  us his personal and creative perspective, breathing fresh air into an ancient discipline.  \u003ci\u003eYoga Beyond Belief\u003c\/i\u003e offers an original, integrative approach to body, mind, and spirit  that is practical, inspiring, and full of valuable insights to enliven and inform  anyone’s yoga practice.\"This book takes you into the mind of a noted renegade yogi. With humor and disarming  honesty, Ganga explains the history and philosophy of yoga, and guides you with his  own original and innovative approach to this ancient discipline. \u003ci\u003eYoga Beyond Belief\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique, integrative approach to body, mind and spirit. It is practical, inspiring  and full of valuable insights to enliven and inform the practice of both beginning  and experienced students. I recommend it highly.\" —Andrew Weil, MD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eYoga Beyond  Belief\u003c\/i\u003e will strike a chord with anyone seeking a new level of awakening and freedom  in yoga and in their lives. This book offers a flexible and modern perspective that  is needed more than ever to meet and live in these times of accelerating change.\" —Sting, from the Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This is a rich, wide-ranging work of great sensitivity  and eloquence, a guided journey through the world of yoga by a master whose wisdom  is matched by his humility—a rare and precious commodity in the modern yoga scene  of massive egos, glitz, and hype.” —David Gordon White, PhD, author of \u003ci\u003eKiss of the  Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in its South Asian Contexts \u003c\/i\u003eand professor of Hinduism, UCSB\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In \u003ci\u003eYoga Beyond Belief,\u003c\/i\u003e Ganga has done an outstanding job.... This is the clear  voice of a modern yogi. Ganga is living proof that the real tradition of yoga is  still very much alive and well.” —Erich Schiffmann, author of \u003ci\u003eYoga: The Spirit and  Practice of Moving into Stillness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eYoga Beyond Belief\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together science, spiritual  inquiry, personal stories, and yoga practices into a tapestry that will serve students  of self-discovery in navigating their own unique path.” —Jack Canfield, author of  \u003ci\u003eChicken Soup for the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e ® \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Ganga is the spearhead of a revolutionary evolution  in the field of yoga. His endeavor has been: How to retain the old form and put new  spirit into it? It also implies: How not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.” —Swami Venkatesa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book can make yoga meaningful to people who never imagined  it. It is a tour de force of deconstructing tradition and making yoga a powerful,  exploratory vehicle for modern times.” —Joel Kramer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guru Papers\u003c\/i\u003e and  \u003ci\u003eA Passionate Mind\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGanga White, referred to as a “pioneer of yoga” by \u003ci\u003eYoga Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, has been teaching,  innovating, and promulgating yoga since 1967–nearly forty years. He has led international  yoga organizations, established yoga centers in major cities that have been emulated  the world over, and he is a leader on the forefront of the wave of yoga in America.  White is founder of the world renowned White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, California,  which offers programs internationally. Situated on forty acres, the residential retreat  and primary teaching institute offers yoga workshops, teacher training, and advanced  study to students and teachers from around the world. White has extensive training  and experience in the field of yoga combined with education in science, physics,  and electronics. He brings a unique, East\/West perspective to yoga, meditation, and  spirituality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ganga White introduced Flow Yoga in the 1970’s and it is now one of  the most popular forms practiced around the world. In 1980, his text Double Yoga  introduced his innovation of partner yoga, now practiced worldwide. With his wife,  Tracey Rich, he co-created Total Yoga–The Flow Series videos, which are international  #1 best sellers with sales of over 1.8 million copies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e White brings a broad, modern  perspective to the teachings of yoga. Although he is extensively trained in traditional  yoga and has a Sanskrit name and titles, White is an evolutionary and critical thinker  who shows his students how to grow beyond tradition into their own freedom and understanding  making their yoga, practice, and their spirituality uniquely their own. He and his  wife currently direct the renowned White Lotus Foundation and lecture and teach internationally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Sting:\u003cbr\u003e World renowned musician Sting has been practicing yoga for more  than 15 years. He and his wife, Trudie Styler, rely on yoga to help maintain their  well-being and the high energy pace of their lives. Along with Trudie and a Brazilian  Indian, Sting started the Rainforest Foundation in 1989 to help save the rainforests.  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