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Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a
potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of
the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of
liberation--a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with
startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist
who has lived and taught for more than ten years at the largest yoga
center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent
pilgrim's progress for today's world. He demystifies the philosophy,
psychology, and practice of yoga, and shows how it applies to our most
human dilemmas: from loss, disappointment, and addiction, to the eternal
conflicts around sex and relationship. And he shows us that in yoga,
liberation does not require us to leave our everyday lives for some
transcendent spiritual plane--life itself is the path. Above all, Cope
shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades
our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more
satisfying life in the world.