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Sharing Sadhana
Victoria Bailey
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Description for Sharing Sadhana
Hardcover. Practicing a personal daily yoga practice, or sadhana, has many physical and mental health benefits, but developing that practice can be challenging and confusing at times. Here, the author offers experienced insights from experts in various yogic traditions on how to cultivate a daily yoga practice that fits your life, needs, and abilities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: VFMG; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
A daily personal yoga practice, or sadhana, is carried out by yogis and yoginis throughout the world every day. Within western culture our knowledge of yoga and yoga practices has been shaped by lessons and insights provided and shared by well-known yoga teachers and yoga therapists in various traditions. Yet, the consistent message from all these teachers is to maintain your own daily practice – honor your sadhana. Finding and committing yourself to either a particular yogic tradition’s daily discipline or finding the confidence and dedication to create your own yoga practice can be both daunting and challenging ... Read moreto new yoga students while it eventually becomes an essential part of every day for people with an established practice. In Sharing Sadhana, the author provides an overview and outline of what yoga sadhana means within western yoga culture and what it means to prominent and experienced yoga teachers and therapists in the western yoga world. She interviews yoga teachers such as Richard Miller, Nischala Joy Devi, Leslie Kaminoff and other prominent practitioners about their views, advice, and experience of sadhana and what it means to them in their personal daily lives and in their teaching. The book offers a means for these experienced practitioners to share information about their own development of sadhana, to provide insights into their own personal yoga journey as well as sadhana guidance and inspiration to new and seasoned yoga practitioners. It includes the challenges they have faced on their yoga journey and how they have overcome those barriers; their advice to other yoga practitioners; and how their yoga practice has changed over time. Anyone hoping to cultivate a better daily yoga practice will be inspired to begin today. Show Less
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
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About Victoria Bailey
Victoria Bailey is a yoga student, a yoga teacher and certified yoga therapist. She is a member of IAYT and has completed a wide range of yoga teacher training. Victoria is also a freelance writer and lives and practices yoga in Calgary, Canada.
Reviews for Sharing Sadhana
Sharing Sadhana delivers exactly what it promises. . . . The books depth of knowledge and insight make it the perfect book if you’ve been thinking about starting a home yoga practice, because it can free you of the idea that it needs to be like this, or look like that.
The Yoga Lunchbox
What does sadhana ... Read moremean to you? Victoria Bailey poses this question to 14 prominent yoga teachers and therapists in Sharing Sadhana....This is not a practice-based instructional book; rather, it illuminates the common thread that runs through each sadhana story. Bailey invites (and inspires) all yogis to make a personal yoga practice exactly that: uniquely their own.
Yoga International
An impassioned look at how great yoginis and yogis, through their dedicated sadhana (practice) create a dynamic energy, which empowers their teachings, to inspire each student to experience inner joy.
Nischala Joy Devi, Teacher and Author of The Healing Path of Yoga and The Secret Power of Yoga What a pleasure, in a world so filled with how to's and must do's, to read Victoria Bailey's lovely book on practice! Yoga enthusiasts of all levels will appreciate the breadth of experience and scope provided by the many wonderful teachers included in this book. Finally, a book that doesn't tell you what to do, instead, one that simply inspires you to find your own practice. If the result of a yoga practice is indeed a light and joyous heart and an expansive mind, the teachers included in this book must all be doing something right, which provides a simple direction for the reader - just practice!
Molly Lannon Kenny, founder and director, The Samarya Center, www.samaryacenter.org www.mollylannonkenny.com Victoria Bailey's book Sharing Sadhana: Insights and Inspiration for a Personal Yoga Practice is a lovely support to new practitioners and yoga enthusiasts alike! Unlike most yoga books that offer outlined practices, this book inspires the reader to embark on a self-discovery process as modeled by each of the teachers Bailey has interviewed for her book. This intimate view into the making of a yoga practice demonstrates the organic evolution of sadhana and the truly personal nature of one's "personal practice". Through it students of yoga who have strived to find the 'perfect' practice will be reassured that there is no one 'right' way. Honest, moving, and encouraging, the stories shared in this book beckon us to discover the practice which authentically expresses and supports who we are in each present moment.
Robin Rothenberg, certified yoga therapist, Essential Yoga Therapy Sharing Sadhana is a comprehensive, sweet look at the concept of sadhana from a wide swath of traditions. Each thoughtful chapter captures the heart of each teacher, providing inspiration, maps for contentment and tools for practice. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
Elena Bower, founder, VIRAYOGA and Art of Attention Yoga sadhana truly begins when we fall in love with learning for its own sake, without goal in mind. When practice blossoms in love, it gives rise to wisdom forged by the proper functionings of mind, body, emotion, devotion, and surrender. Sadhana then becomes the means whereby bondage becomes liberation. In her book, Sharing Sadhana, Victoria explores the ins and outs of how some of America’s most devoted proponents of yoga discovered and forged their own yoga sadhana through years of daily practice and challenge until it became an essential part of their everyday life and they realized that sadhana, instead of them finding it, had found them. Sharing Sadhana is helpful reading for everyone yearning to discover a personal practice that is forever fresh and revitalizing, and can show us our way back home to our heartfelt connection with ourselves, and all of life.
Richard Miller, PhD., author of Yoga Nidra: A Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing, president of the Integrative Restoration Institute, co-founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapy Show Less
