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After studying yoga in India and traveling all over the world with traditional Vedantic masters, Steve Ross returned to his hometown of Los Angeles with a broadened point of view of what yoga could be. He was surprised to find that yoga classes at home were missing the humor, joy, and celebration that fueled his Eastern studies. Instead of expanding and enhancing the joy of being, Western yoga classes focused obsessively on correcting body positions and developing a picture-perfect physique. Determined to keep his yoga practice true to cultivating bliss and inner radiance, Ross started his own yoga studio and has created a yoga movement in Los Angeles that is, to put it simply, revolutionary.
Ross lives and teaches according to his belief that the secret to yoga is not obsessing over whether your feet are parallel or whether you can bend as far as the person on your left can, but about transcending the serious and allowing joy into your life, your body, your mind, and hopefully your yoga practice itself. It's about lightening up.
In Happy Yoga, Ross reveals that everyone is inherently happy, but that our true self is shadowed and concealed by the layers of worry that, through habit, become our daily thoughts. In each chapter, he examines one of our seven greatest human fears -- depression, ill health, loss of love, career failure, war, death, and emotional stasis -- and uses yoga wisdom to explain how to strip away these worries to reach your core of calm radiant joy. By sharing his system of yoga postures, diet, meditation, music, supplements, and philosophy, Ross has effected profound physical and mental changes in both his life and the lives of his students.
Ross's power is that he goes back to the source -- five thousand years of ancient yogic wisdom -- and decodes the abstract Eastern ideas for a Western audience. Happy Yoga is not just a set of movements and facts to consume, it is a way of shifting your awareness to bring the spirit of yoga into each movement, each meal, each relationship, each thought, and each breath.
With love and joyful abandon, Ross offers us a new way to practice and live yoga. The result is profound calm, a dramatic release of anxiety and pain, and the realization that there really is nothing to worry about.
In all the time I've taught yoga, the question that I've gotten hit with the most is, "Why are you so happy?" Read the first page
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Just Plain Happy,
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This review is from: Happy Yoga: 7 Reasons Why There's Nothing to Worry About (Paperback)
I've been reading this book for the past 3 weeks along with practicing yoga using Steve's program and I do feel calmer and more at peace, as well as stronger and more comfortable in my body. The book features lessons followed by suggested exercises (mental as well as physical) that can guide you on your journey. I've been to many yoga classes and found that they can be indimitading and pretentious to newcomers. This book explains the principles of yoga in a way that beginners can understand and feel in sync when practicing with more experienced others. Every lesson had has inspired me - I can already tell that this will be a book that I pick up time & again.
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This review is from: Happy Yoga: 7 Reasons Why There's Nothing to Worry About (Paperback)
This book has really changed my life. It was incredibly enjoyable to read, enlightening and humorous. It offered a great life philosophy! I go back to reread parts of it all the time! It is the most influential book I have ever read.
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i LOVE this book.,
By rabbit (georgetown, ct United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Happy Yoga: 7 Reasons Why There's Nothing to Worry About (Paperback)
it is lovely to have something so well written and funny on a subject usually treated with intense seriousness. steve ross reminds us that yoga is FUN and about joyful living. he touches on many topics including relationships, diet advice (changed my life and my body), money, the tyranny of the ego, and the potential for permanent happiness. there is no fixation on perfecting the postures, like i have experienced in class so many times, but instead a recipe for lifelong bliss. i expect i will reread this book many many times.
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