• Includes sections on vedic chanting, throat breathing, and exercises for women.
• Presents a unique portrait of T. Krishnamacharya and his teachings.
For 33 years Ramaswami studied with the legendary T. Krishnamacharya, teacher of B.K.S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and T.K.V. Desikachar and perhaps the most influential figure in the field of yoga in the last 100 years. Since that time he has developed Krishnamacharya’s teaching into what may be the most highly evolved program available for making yoga an approach to life, relatively than simply a routine. In seventeen chapters Ramaswami lays out the whole philosophy of yoga, including principles for right living, postures, breathing practices, meditation practices, and mental disciplines.
Key to Ramaswami’s teaching is the focal point on adapting yoga to individual needs and to different stages of life. All the way through the early a part of life, learning yoga as a physical art form is most really useful for the self-confidence and discipline it instills. In middle age, yoga must focus on physical therapy and maintaining optimum health as far into life as imaginable. In the last stages of life, the practitioner will manage to focus on the ultimate goal of yoga–true understanding of the philosophy in the back of it and the realization of truth.
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