For modern spiritual seekers and yoga students alike, here isan irreverent yet profound guide to the most sophisticatedteachings of the yoga wisdom tradition–now brought to contemporarylife by a celebrated author, psychotherapist, and leading Americanyoga instructor. While many Westerners still think of yoga as an invigoratingseries of postures and breathing exercises, these physicalpractices are only part of a vast and ancient spiritual science.For more than three millennia, yoga sages systematically exploredthe essential questions of our human existence: What are the rootcauses of suffering, and how can we achieve freedom and happiness?What would it be like to function at the maximum potential of ourminds, bodies, and spirits? What is an optimal human life? Nowhere have their discoveries been more brilliantly distilledthan in a short–but famously difficult–treatise called theYogasutra. This revered text lays out the entire path of innerdevelopment in remarkable detail–ranging from
A decade ago, Deepak Chopra, M.D., wrote Perfect Health, thefirst practical guide to harnessing the healing power of the mind,which became a national bestseller. The book described howbreakthroughs in physics and medicine were underscoring thevalidity of a 5,000-year-old medical system from ancient Indiaknown as Ayurveda ("the knowledge of life span" in Sanskrit).Perfect Health went on to describe how to apply the ancient wisdomof Ayurveda to everyday life. In celebration of this classic workwe have created this new edition, revised and updated to includethe latest medical research. Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact morelike fires that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grownew stomach linings every five days, for instance. Our skin is newevery five weeks. Each year, fully 98 percent of the total numberof atoms in our bodies is replaced. Ayurveda gives us the tools tointervene at this quantum level, where we are being created aneweach day. Ayurveda tells us t
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The most respected Krav Maga experts in the USA present a bookaimed at the highest level students of Krav Maga. Presented are themost lethal moves normally taught to police and military personalfor disabling the most dangerous assailants - particularly thosearmed with a gun, knife or other weapon.As the official defensivetactics system of Israeli police, military, and elite specialoperations units, krav maga has proven its effectiveness from frontlines and back streets to prisoner transport and 'take noprisoners' missions. For the first time, "Black Belt Krav Maga"teaches and illustrates the discipline's most lethal fighting andself-defence moves in book format. These no-holds-barred streetfighting techniques are designed to do one thing and one thingonly: end a fight as quickly as possible by completely disabling anopponent. Extensive counterattacks are illustrated for the mostdangerous situations including neutralizing attackers armed withguns, knives, and other weapons. The program in "Black Belt Kr
