Inspired Lives: The Best of Real Life Yoga from "Ascent Magazine": The Best of Real Life Yoga from Ascent Magazine - Softcover

Clea Mcdougall

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9781932018110: Inspired Lives: The Best of Real Life Yoga from "Ascent Magazine": The Best of Real Life Yoga from Ascent Magazine

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ISBN 10: 1932018115 ISBN 13: 9781932018110

Publisher: Timeless Books,U.S., 2007

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In this anthology from award winning Ascent magazine editor Clea McDougall collects the most compelling voices of yogis who are thinking deeply about yoga and actively living a spiritual life. Whether risking life and limb fighting for social change sitting with an ailing mother or feeling the fire of a stretch in yoga class the wide range of stories in INSPIRED LIVES is told with the intimacy and humanity characteristic of Ascent magazine. It is the rarity of this kind of writing that has won Ascent numerous awards of excellence including Utne's Best Spiritual Coverage and brought the magazine a devoted readership. Collected from 1999-2004 INSPIRED LIVES revisits classic interviews profiles and personal essays from an eclectic mix of yogis authors and activists including Georg Feuerstein Yann Martel Arundhati Roy and Tenzin Palmo. The depth of human experience is revealed in candid personal essays concerning illness and health life and death suffering and happiness. With the magazine's emphasis on the arts and social engagement INSPIRED LIVES gets to the heart of how we live our yoga.

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The best of real life yoga from ascent magazine: This is a collection of articles, photography, and illustrations by some of the most innovative thinkers writing about yoga, inspired living and the places where the two meet. Some books on yoga will teach you a posture, how to hold a pose. Through compelling exposition, artful photography and delightful illustrations, Inspired Lives teaches how people think expansively to bring yoga to their lives. The best from the Utne Award-winning Ascent magazine, Inspired Lives presents dynamic stories in heartfelt prose that distills the essential teachings of yoga into the art of living life.

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ascent is an independent, not-for-profit magazine of yoga and engaged spirituality. Published quarterly, ascent translates the philosophy of yoga into practical realities by exploring its intersection with social issues, art, culture and contemporary thought. ascent has won several awards, including the 2003 Utne Independent Press Award for Spiritual Coverage.Clea McDougall was the editor of Montreal-based ascent magazine from 1999 until 2004. She continues to write, edit and explore the expression of yoga through language, art and life. She lives in Canada.Swami Sivananda Radha (1911-1995) is the inspiration for ascent magazine, the author of several timeless books, and the founder of Yasodhara Ashram in British Columbia. She is widely regarded as one of the foremost yoga teachers of the 20th century.

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