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Yoga continues to be a growth industry with an estimated thirty
million people in North America now practicing either privately or
in most cases with a class. Though the yoga market is fractured by
the great number of competing schools and philosophies, what they
all have in common is the ending of the session with a period of
relaxation coupled with inspiring readings."Soul to Soul" fills
just this need with a beautiful collection of 150 inspiring
perfect-length readings plus tens of quotes that are just right for
ending a yoga class or private session. Honoring many spiritual
traditions, its the perfect teaching tool or gift for yoga teachers
and practitioners, or for anyone seeking uplifting messages for any
occasion. Includes writing by Swami Kripalu, Thich Nhat Hanh,
Deepak Chopra, Eckart Tolle, H.H the Dalai Lama, Don Miguel Ruiz,
quotes from Rumi, Hafiz, Gandhi, Meister Eckart, Lao Tzu, as well
as selections from the Bhagavad Gita, and the Yoga Sutras of
Pantajali. Unlike most books intended for yoga teachers, "Soul to
Soul" has strong appeal to teachers in nearly any tradition, and to
a wider range of their students.John Mundahl has been a yoga
teacher and practitioner for over thirty-six years. He was a
resident at the original Kripalu Yoga Ashram in Sumneytown,
Pennsylvania, from 1977 1981, the four years of Swami Kripalus
remarkable stay. He is the author of twelve books, including "From
the Heart of the Lotus, the Teaching Stories of Swami Kripalu." He
lives in St. Peter, Minnesota."
On May 20, 1977, Pan American fl ight 695 touched down at Kennedy
Airport in New York City carrying a great treasure. The treasure
could not be measured in gold or silver or precious gems. The
treasure was spiritual, not material. A saint, revered by hundreds
of thousands of people in India, but little known in the west, had
agreed to visit the United States. His name was Swami Kripalu. This
book tells the remarkable story of his life and his extraordinary
stay in the United States from 1977-1981, when he broke his silence
of many years and delivered more than 100 talks on a vast array of
spiritual topics, most of which have never been published prior to
this book. In the process, he became the namesake for the Kripalu
Center in Lennox, Massachusetts, the largest holistic health center
in North America and for Kripalu Yoga, a form of yoga taught by
more than 5000 yoga teachers in the United States and around the
world. "To live near one of the greatest saints of India is an
experience of profound grace. Rarely does such an evolved being
exist on this plane. And here he was in the spring of 1977, Swami
Kripalvanandji, lovingly known as Bapuji, living among us at the
spiritual community named for him." Yogi Amrit Desai "Nothing could
have prepared me for my first encounter with Swami Kripalu. As the
69 year old Kripalu walked into the room, my mind was catapulted
into a state of focused awareness deeper than anything I'd ever
experienced. My first startled thought was that he looked
surprisingly like my grandfather, who was also bald and pencil
thin. But the similarities stopped there. Swami Kripalu was a
lightening bolt wrapped in an orange robe." Rick Faulds, author of
Kripalu Yoga: A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat. "His Holiness
Swami Shri Kripalvanada was the greatest yogacharya of the 20th
Century. He meditated 10 hours a day for 30 years, a stunning feat,
in pursuit of the Divine Body. He is revered in India as one of our
greatest saints." T.R. Patel, Doctor of Ayurveda, author and yoga
instructor, Ahmedabad, India. John Mundahl has been a yoga teacher
and practitioner for 34 years. He was a resident at the original
Kripalu Yoga Ashram in Sumneytown, Pennsylvania from 1977-1981, the
four years of Swami Kripalu's remarkable stay in the United States.
He is also a retired public school teacher, a returned Peace Corps
Volunteer, an Ayurvedic Health Care Educator and the author of 10
books, including From the Heart of the Lotus, the Teaching Stories
of Swami Kripalu and Soul To Soul: Poems, Prayers And Stories To
End A Yoga Class.
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