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A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga
- Author
- Nikita Desai
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 30 January 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
‘This will play a crucial role in preserving the true spirit of yoga for future generations.’ – Vex King
Learn how to incorporate traditional yoga into your modern practice – and feel the benefits.
Yoga in its authentic form is focused on inclusivity, inner work and peace. But the yoga that is practised in the Western world has got a little lost along the way…
Join Nikita Desai on her mission to help us understand yoga beyond the physical poses and pricey outfits that we’re so familiar with today. Drawing on research and teachings from ancient sources, Desai helps us navigate this complex practice as we learn how to:
- Unpick the problems in modern yoga
- Understand the fundamentals of what yoga is in its truest form
- Explore key yogic texts and gurus to support our learning
- Add in practical elements of traditional yoga to our current practice, both on and off the mat.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Roots of Yoga is the essential companion for anyone who wants to practise yoga respectfully and fully.
Critics Review
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Thoughtful and informative, it’s a must-read for anyone looking to cultivate a more meaningful and mindful practice.
Yoga Magazine
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This will play a crucial role in preserving the true spirit of yoga for future generations.
Vex King
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An important read
Glamour
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This is such an important book
Carrie and David Grant, BBC Radio London
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Details
- Author
- Nikita Desai
- Narrator
- Nikita Desai, Prasad Rangnekar, Sid Sagar
- Duration
- 7 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 January 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399421546
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Yoga for exercise, Yoga (as a philosophy), Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Hinduism
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga: How to create a more authentic practice by Nikita Desai read by Nikita Desai, Prasad Rangnekar and Sid Sagar ‘This will play a crucial role in preserving the true spirit of yoga for future generations.’ – Vex King Learn how to incorporate traditional yoga into your modern practice – and feel the benefits.Yoga in its authentic form is focused on inclusivity, inner work and peace. But the yoga that is practised in the Western world has got a little lost along the way…Join Nikita Desai on her mission to help us understand yoga beyond the physical poses and pricey outfits that we’re so familiar with today. Drawing on research and teachings from ancient sources, Desai helps us navigate this complex practice as we learn how to:- Unpick the problems in modern yoga- Understand the fundamentals of what yoga is in its truest form- Explore key yogic texts and gurus to support our learning- Add in practical elements of traditional yoga to our current practice, both on and off the mat.A Beginner’s Guide to the Roots of Yoga is the essential companion for anyone who wants to practise yoga respectfully and fully.
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