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Yoga for the Three Stages of Life:

Developing Your Practice As an Art Form, a Physical Therapy, and a Guiding Philosophy
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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, Jan 1, 2001 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 272 pages
Essential reading for those looking to customize their practice to life's changing needs.

 

• 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 a way of life, rather 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 focus on adapting yoga to individual needs and to different stages of life. During the early part of life, learning yoga as a physical art form is most beneficial for the self-confidence and discipline it instills. In middle age, yoga should focus on physical therapy and maintaining optimum health as far into life as possible. In the last stages of life, the practitioner will be ready to focus on the ultimate goal of yoga--true understanding of the philosophy behind it and the realization of truth.

  

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Contents

My Studies with Śri T Kriṣṇamācārya and Others
4
The Story of Patañjali
21
3 What is Yoga?
30
4 Advanced Yoga
36
5 Mantrayoga
62
6 The EightPart Yoga and Its Ten Commandments
87
Yoga Sādhana or Practice
93
Standing Postures
94
Paścimatānam
156
Padmāsana and Other Postures for Yoga Sādhana
165
Yogic Breathing Exercises and Their Health Benefits
189
Yoga for Woment
212
Yoga Texts
227
Freed0k
236
Glossar7
242
Glossary
246

Supine Postures
126
Sarvāngāsana and Śirṣāsana
135
Prone Postures and the Spine
149
Index
260
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About the author (2001)

\Srivatsa Ramaswami has taught yoga in universities, hospitals, and schools in India for more than twenty years. A familiar figure on Indian radio and television, he now teaches workshops throughout the United States as well.

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TitleYoga for the Three Stages of Life: Developing Your Practice As an Art Form, a Physical Therapy, and a Guiding Philosophy
AuthorSrivatsa Ramaswami
Editionillustrated
PublisherInner Traditions / Bear & Co, 2001
ISBN0892818204, 9780892818204
Length272 pages
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Body, Mind & Spirit / Meditation
Health & Fitness / Yoga
  
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