About 20 million Americans are practicing some form of yoga. Yet the original purpose of yoga as a path to inner freedom and enlightenment is embodied by only a few students in the West.
Yoga Wisdom introduces this growing market to the endangered mental and spiritual disciplines of this ancient philosophy for living. From yoga's origins and how it evolved into many schools, to the moral and esoteric principles that unite them all, here is the perfect primer on Yoga and its authentic practice.
Note: Excerpted from the full-length audio course The Lost Teachings of Yoga. Georg Fauerstein
Georg Feuerstein (1947-2012)
Georg Feuerstein was born in Germany shortly after World War II, and conducted his postgraduate research in Indian philosophy at the University of Durham in England. He was the founder and director of the Yoga Research and Education Center in northern California. Georg Feuerstein authored more than 30 books, including Living Yoga, The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, Tantra: Path of Ecstasy, and The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali. He was the editor of Yoga World newsletter and the annual International Journal of Yoga Therapy.
