Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope
More than 100,000 copies sold!Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation-a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than ten years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent "pilgrim's progress" for today's world. He demystifies the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga, and shows how it applies to our most human dilemmas- from loss, disappointment, and addiction, to the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. And he shows us that in yoga, "liberation" does not require us to leave our everyday lives for some transcendent spiritual plane-life itself is the path. Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.
Stephen Cope, MSW, is the founder and former Director of the Kripalu Institute for Exceptional Living, which is the world's largest yoga research institute. He is a psychotherapist with a Western education who studies and writes about the relationship between Western psychological paradigms and Eastern meditative traditions. Cope is the author of several successful books, including Yoga and the Search for the Real Self, The Wisdom of Yoga, The Great Work of Your Life, and Soul Friends, and is a Scholar-in-Residence and Kripalu Ambassador in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780553378351 |
| ISBN 10 | 055337835X |
| Title | Yoga and the Quest for the True Self |
| Author | Stephen Cope |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2000-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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