Sri T. Krishnamacharya (18881989) was the most influentialfigure in the last 100 years in the field of yoga. Many of today'sbest-known yoga teachersincluding his brother-in-law B. K. S.Iyengar, his son T. K. V. Desikachar, and Pattabhi Jois, founder ofAshtanga yogastudied with him and modeled their own yoga stylesafter his practice and teaching. Yet, despite his renowned status,Krishnamacharya's wisdom has never before been made completelyavailable, just as he taught it. Now, in The Complete Book ofVinyasa Yoga, Srivatsa RamaswamiKrishnamacharya's longest-standingstudent outside his own familypresents his master's teachings ofyogasanas in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon his 33 years ofdirect study, beginning in 1955 and continuing nearly until histeacher's death, Ramaswami presents more than nine hundred posesand variations in logically structured sequences, preciselydescribing Krishnamacharya's complete Vinyasakrama system. Alongwith every movement of each yoga posture, he covers the properbreathin
Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to bepracticed in many forms and situations throughout the world. Butuntil now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of itstenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whoseTheory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such aservice to that discipline since 1970, provides existentialpsychotherapy with a background, a synthesis, and a framework.Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four ultimateconcerns of lifedeath, freedom, existential isolation, andmeaninglessnessthe book takes up the meaning of each existentialconcern and the type of conflict that springs from ourconfrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifestedin personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helpedby our knowledge of them. Drawing from clinical experience,empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom haswritten a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide anintellectual home base for those p
