Yoga Philosophy in Plain English

A Simple Guide to a Quiet Mind, a Steady Heart, and the Wisdom Beyond the Mat

von Curtis Lowell

148 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The poses were only the front door. This book shows you the rest of the house.Yoga began as a method for training the mind, not the hamstrings. This book takes its two great sources, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita, and turns them into plain English you can use the same day.You will learn to step back from racing thoughts, catch a worry spiral early, work the eight limbs into an ordinary week, do your best work without clinging to results, and build a calm that holds up in good times and bad.Twenty-two short chapters. No jargon, no required beliefs, no bendy poses. Each chapter ends with one small thing to try, and the book closes with a simple fifteen-minute daily practice.A quiet mind and a steady heart are skills. This book shows you how to build them.What Changes?- Your thoughts stop running the show. You learn the one idea the whole tradition rests on: you are not only your thoughts. You are also the one who notices them.- The late-night spiral gets shorter. Simple tools from the Yoga Sutras help you catch worry and resentment before they take over your evening.- The eight limbs finally make sense. From ethics to breath to meditation, each one explained simply, with something to try the same day.- Work gets lighter. The Bhagavad Gita's most famous teaching shows how to give your best effort without being crushed by worry about results.- Your phone loses some of its grip. An ancient practice for turning the senses inward turns out to be exactly what a distracted world needs.- You build a steady heart. Calm in good times and bad, like an ocean that stays full while the rivers pour in.What's Inside?The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the famous handbook of the mind. The Bhagavad Gita, the story of a great warrior who froze on the edge of battle and the friend who helped him rise. The forest teachers of the Upanishads. And a chapter on how yoga and Stoicism, from opposite ends of the ancient world, reached remarkably similar conclusions.Why This Book: Twenty-two short chapters, each ending with one small thing to try. A simple fifteen-minute daily practice. Discussion questions for book clubs and yoga teacher trainings, and a one-page Practice Card that holds the whole book.No background needed. If your mind has ever kept you awake at night, you are ready.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175694544
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published