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This is a book about meditation. True meditation in the yoga tradition - not mindfulness or relaxation or imaginative journeys, but deep, spiritually inclined techniques that take years to master. Never before have these techniques and tools been published and laid out in such a clear and structured way.

French yogi, Bernard Bouanchaud, in his eighties now, reveals his extensive training over several years in Chennai, India with T.K.V. Desikachar, and then in France with his brother T.K.Sribhashyam. Both were sons of the legendary yogi T. Krishnamacharya, who was at the centre of the modern revival of yoga and played a pivotal role in its recent growth in modern times. 

The yoga meditation in this book is:

- authentic, for it is a tradition that has been passed down for more than ten centuries; and

- based on the philosophy of Patañjali in his Yoga-Sūtra and other key yoga texts.

With the help of an experienced teacher to implement these rational and progressive methods presented here, you too will enrich your yoga meditation, promising you more mental clarity and compassion.

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The Samkhya school has a huge influence on Indian Philosophical thought and pins everything on three important principles. An unmanifested world, held in the three qualities (guna), that form ‘the cause’. A manifested world, formed of matter (prakrti), that is ‘the effect’ and a pure subject or knower (purusa). The key this philosophical approach presents is gaining knowledge of all three.

This book gives a clear translation accompanied with a commentary to aid the understanding of these teachings that are essential reflections for all serious practitioners of yoga and ayurveda. The Samkhya school provides both the framework and theory for both these popular approaches.

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This is the long awaited, updated and revised 2020 edition of Bernard Bouanchaud’s classic work: The Essence of Yoga: Reflections on the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.

Yoga stands at the heart of all meditative practices.

This book offers invaluable guidance to those seeking a deeper understanding of their true nature. The Yoga Sutra distill the essentials of an integrated system of physical and spiritual discipline. All too often, Westerners bypass the philosophy and practice the physical postures, but it is impossible to authentically practice the physical postures without first having grasped the philosophical underpinnings.

This book provides:

• A translation of each sutra, study questions, themes for reflection an illumination commentary, and the sutra word for word in Sanskrit.

• An eloquent translation by a celebrated yoga teacher for every yoga and philosophy student.

• A modern interpretation of yoga’s most important text, the essential source of Yoga.

Internationally acclaimed yogi Bernard Bouanchaud began studying yoga in 1961. He is the author of several books on yoga including Meditation Techniques in the Yoga Tradition.