Downward Dog & Warriors

Wisdom Tales for Modern Yogis

Author: Zo Newell
Paperback: 104 pages
Language: English

2008 Nautilus Book of the Year Silver Medal Winner

Why should a modern yoga student bother with the mythological stories and figures of some distant culture?  The rich oral tradition of stories surrounding yoga holds deep significance when taken as a guide to working with universal human emotions.  This book pairs culturally significant stories with selected yoga postures to show how you can achieve health and well-being through greater self-awareness.  Connecting these stories to common yoga poses opens a deeper dimension of practice.

"When I was young, my teacher told stories about Shiva and other heroes from the Indian epics.  He explained that all the characters in the stories were aspects of our own minds.  I chose stories about Shiva related to well-known asanas in the hoipe that your yoga practice will be enriched and enlivened.  I believe the postures themselves embody the energy of these stories, and that knowing the stories behind them will help you to find the pose that emerges uniquely from your body and from your own experience of yoga."   Zo Newell