The Three Lives of a Czech Yogi ... and Beyond - Volume One: 1925 - 1968 (Hardcover)

"My reluctance to write a book about my life was cunningly overcome by my wife, who started interviewing me onto a camcorder. She enjoyed hearing about my idyllic childhood in Jemnice, South Moravia, but ended up transcribing 46 hours covering the years up to 1968 when I emigrated. During the war I worked for a German firm in Brno, then obtained a doctorate and was poised for a professorship at Olomouc University. After the communist putsch, only manual jobs were available to me. I became a good tram-driver but a less competent coal-miner and plumber. Unwittingly I gave the political commissar a nervous breakdown during my army service, most of which I spent sitting at a typewriter. From my teens I had been interested in oriental philosophy and was practising deep meditation, which helped me to stay true to myself during secret police interrogations and at other times of intense pressure. My research into the benefits of Hatha Yoga led to my writing the first book on it in Czech, and founding the Yoga Club in Brno, all under the eyes of the communist regime. Before I was deemed to be 'illegally abroad', the book had sold 95,000 copies."

General

Imprint:	Matador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Karel Werner
Dimensions:	297 x 210mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	656
ISBN-13:	978-1-80313-645-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-80313-645-6
Barcode:	9781803136455

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