A Life Worth Breathing

Promises to help readers reach their full potential through yoga, meditation and mindful breathing, in a book that includes exercises, anecdotes and analogies. Original.

Autorentext

Max Strom is a teacher, speaker, and author known for inspiring and positively impacting the lives of his students and readers. His system guides us to live a meaningful life and includes a philosophy for living, self-inquiry, breath-work, yoga postures, and meditation. His book A Life Worth Breathing is available in five languages. Max Strom has spoken at TEDx events, and given a keynote speech on ethics in business at the Lululemon management conference. His articles and interviews have appeared in the Utne Reader, the Huffington Post, Whole Living, Happinez, Yoga Journal, and the New York Times. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.

Klappentext

In this inspiring work, yogi Strom looks beyond the often written about philosophies of yoga to what he sees as the purpose of this practice: to help with the journey within.

Zusammenfassung
Let Max Strom help you heal your body, camp your mind, and heal your heart. “I love the energy and flow of Max Strom’s yoga classes…but perhaps above all, I respect his quite strength and deep humility.”—Ali McGraw

A Life Worth Breathing teaches us how mindful breathing, in tandem with the physical practice of yoga and spiritual practice of meditation, raises us to a more powerful level of awareness. Max Strom’s groundbreaking book reaches past expected dogma in language that is inspired and accessible. Chapters include:

• The Yoga Revolution
• Our Situation
• The Three Pillars of Transformation
• The First Pillar—The Mind
• The Second Pillar—The Emotions
• The Third Pillar—The Body
• Mind, Emotions, Body—Integrating the Three Pillars
• Having a Code
• Ethics at Work
• Avoiding a Near-Life Experience
• Activism
  With exercises to help readers identify and achieve intentions, and anecdotes and analogies to bring the practice to life, this book will lead you to the loving and peaceful power of the universe and allow you to fully awaken to your highest human consciousness.