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Yoga Mala Author: Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Paperback: 127 pages Publisher: North Point Press (September 2002) ISBN: 0865476624 The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga Yoga by the living master of this increasingly popular discipline There is a yoga boom in America, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois is at the heart of it. One of the great yoga figures of our time, Jois brought Ashtanga Yoga to the West a quarter of a century ago and has been the driving force behind its worldwide dissemination. Based on flowing, energetic movement, Ashtanga and the many forms of vinyasa yoga that grow directly out of it--have become the most widespread and influential styles of practice in the United States today. Mala means "garland" in Sanskrit, and Yoga Mala--a "garland of yoga practice"--is Jois's distillation of Ashtanga Yoga. He first outlines the ethical principles and philosophy underlying the discipline and explains its important terms and concepts. Next he guides the reader through the Ashtanga versions of the Sun Salutation and the subsequent sequence of forty-two asanas, or poses, precisely describing how to execute each position and what benefits each provides. Brought into English by Eddie Stern, a longtime student of Pattabhi Jois and director of Ashtanga Yoga New York, Yoga Mala will be an indispensable handbook for students and teachers of yoga for years to come. |
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