Krishnamacharya: His Life and Teachings
10 best books like Krishnamacharya: His Life and Teachings (A.G. Mohan): White Oleander, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, The Gift, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Shopgirl, An Object of Beauty, No One Belongs Here More Than You, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
| Author | Janet Fitch |
| ISBN | 0316182540 |
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| Author | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| ISBN | 1571313354 |
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...
| Author | Hafez |
| ISBN | 0140195815 |
More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."
With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's...
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 1416553649 |
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away."
Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed...
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
| Author | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0670021652 |
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever,...
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 0786891076 |
Lonely, depressed, Vermont transplant Mirabelle Buttersfield, who sells expensive evening gloves nobody ever buys at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and spends her evenings watching television with her two cats. She attempts to forge a relationship with middle-aged, womanizing, Seattle millionaire...
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 0446573647 |
Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension...
No One Belongs Here More Than You
| Author | Miranda July |
| ISBN | 0743299396 |
I bought this book cause I was walking through a bookstore with a friend of mine... a friend I adore more than newborn puppies and tiny rabbits hopping in fields of grass, and she said, "MIRANDA JULY! I love her. She made the movie You, Me, and Everyone We Know."
I hadn't seen the movie, but I remember...
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
| Author | Michael A. Singer |
| ISBN | 1572245379 |
What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul—now a #1 New York Times bestseller—offers simple yet profound answers to these questions.
Whether this is your first...
| Author | Eva Saulitis |
| ISBN | 0807014354 |
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas
Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas struggling...
| Author | Yogi Swatmarama |
| ISBN | 8185787387 |
This affordable, definitive edition of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika contains the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and full-page photographs of all the asanas. The chakras, kundalini, mudras, shakti, nadis, bandhas, and many other topics are explained. This is the first edition of the...
| 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...
| Author | Gregor Maehle |
| ISBN | 1577316061 |
Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy is the first book of its kind, presenting a comprehensive guide to all eight limbs of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Join author Gregor Maehle, a seasoned yogi and compassionate teacher, as he guides you through the history and lineage of yoga; the fundamentals of breath,...
Seventeen hundred years ago, key elements of our ancient heritage were lost, relegated to the esoteric traditions of mystery schools and sacred orders. Among the most empowering of the forgotten elements are references to a science with the power to bring everlasting healing to our bodies and initiate...
One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life
| Author | Eddie Stern |
| ISBN | 0865478392 |
A pragmatic and succinct introduction to the purposes and benefits of yoga--philosophical, physiological, mental, and spiritual--and how practice affects the body/mind to realize those purposes and benefits
Yoga is reputed to improve our physical and mental health, and to help us become...
Learning to Love You More
| Author | Harrell Fletcher |
| ISBN | 3791337335 |
Once upon a time, when the Internet was young, a pair of artists made a site called http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/. They created "assignments" which people carried out, posting the results. It was sweet. It was wonky and personal and empowering. The site is still up. My favorite assignment is...
The Yoga of the Yogi: The Legacy of T. Krishnamacharya
| Author | Kausthub Desikachar |
| ISBN | 0865477531 |
This deeply personal biographical tribute by Krishnamacharya's grandson includes photographs, archival materials, and family recollections that have never been published elsewhere, as well as unique insights into the "master of masters" by some of his most famous students-Indra Devi, Sri K....
The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for the Human Condition
| Author | Debra Silverman |
| ISBN | 1844096890 |
Everyone longs to be understood in their essence. In The Missing Element, author Debra Silverman describes human nature in a compassionate and succinct way, and offers ways for us to get to know ourselves in depth with the wisdom of archetypes.
The information in this book stands on the shoulders...
