Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya

6 best books like Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya (T.K.V. Desikachar): As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Native Guard, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga, Children of Dune, The Gospel in Brief

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Author	Laurie Lee
ISBN	0140033181

It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune.

He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain. For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs...

Native Guard

Author	Natasha Trethewey
ISBN	0618872655

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and...

Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

Author

Stephen Cope

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...

Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga

Author	Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
ISBN	0865476624

The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga yoga by the master of this increasingly popular discipline

There is a yoga boom in America, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois is at the heart of it. One of the great yoga figures of our time, Jois brought Ashtanga yoga to the West a quarter of a century ago and has...

Children of Dune

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0593098242

Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis...

The Gospel in Brief

Author	Leo Tolstoy
ISBN	0803294328

"Are you acquainted with Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief? At its time, this book virtually kept me alive... If you are not acquainted with it, then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person" -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, in a letter to Ludwig von Ficker. The Gospel in Brief is Leo Tolstoy's integration...