Yoga of Courage and Compassion
Conscious Breathing and Guided Meditation
by William Yang
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Pub Date Jul 06 2021 | Archive Date May 20 2021
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Description
• Shares a series of simple, practical, and profound conscious breathing, movement, and meditation exercises that help you bypass the ego-centered mind, open your heart, and live in the present moment
• Developed through the author’s decades of work with cancer patients
Through decades of teaching yoga and meditation to cancer patients, William Yang witnessed hundreds of breakthroughs into radical presence and openheartedness. In many ways, his patients taught him more than he taught them. From this collaboration with the sick and dying, Yang developed a series of simple, practical, and profound conscious breathing, movement, and meditation exercises that help to bypass the ego-centered mind, open the heart, and live fearlessly in the present moment.
Yang’s exercises begin with an invitation to rediscover a natural and unforced way of breathing, so we can let go of our anxious ego and let life in again. From there, enlarging the sequence step by step, the author focuses on grounding and connecting with Mother Earth, working with the spine to develop a new sense of self-confidence, and opening the heart to love again.
As we shed elements of the stressed, anxious person we once were, we are able to be more attuned to the world around us in a loving and caring way. Through the lessons learned from his cancer patients, Yang shows how, with courage and compassion, we can live and love without reservation at any time in our lives.
Advance Praise
“William Yang takes you on a profound journey of awakening through a step-by-step program that anyone can understand, explore, and benefit hugely from. Dive into these teachings wholeheartedly, and you will transform your relationship with life and death both.”
Will Johnson, author of Breathing through the Whole Body
“This is a brave and passionate book that should be in every yoga lover’s backpack. It shows that yoga is far more than the beneficial physical exercise it has often been reduced to in our materialist culture, and it demonstrates with precise verve how doing yoga can provide a foundation of galvanized yet peaceful energy for the courageous work of sacred activism and for rising gracefully to the brutal challenges of our time.”
Andrew Harvey, coauthor of Heart Yoga
“There is more to yoga than staying limber, youthful, and healthy. The confrontation with the vulnerability of the body and the finite nature of life is an essential moment of spiritual learning. William has collected precious lessons about courage, compassion, and love in the years he has worked with people who have cancer. He has brought these lessons together in this book, opening up a deeper dimension in yoga. His exercises are simple, yet profound and very energetic. They help you embrace the totality of life and enjoy the depth of the moment. William Yang’s work has become a source of inspiration for many yoga teachers and their students. I can heartily recommend this book.”
Lea Vos, former director of Zweiersdal, center for yoga and continuing education of yoga teachers
“William Yang invites people to take the journey into the depth of their own being. If people are willing to investigate their life in the face of death, all false solutions will be destroyed. This book is not only for the sick but for all those affected by the incurable disease of life. Yoga of Courage and Compassion is remarkable.”
Drs. Nol Hogema, OP, former director of the Han Fortman Center
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781644112861 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 112 |
Featured Reviews
Emma F, Reviewer
I am very much into Yoga and was very excited to be given this Yoga book to read from NetGalley, thank you.
I like the cover of the book it really appealed to me and it is full of interesting information. There is also techniques in there to help you with breathing and yoga you can follow. I will definitely keep coming back to use these especially the breathing technique.
Paul V, Reviewer
This little book is full of really nice illustrations (unlike ones I've ever seen) that bring the exercises and practices alive. This book will help readers deepen their breathing and meditation practices. You don't have to practice yoga to benefit from this book. Good stuff.
I really appreciate the ARC for review!!
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