Hark The Herald Yogis Sing

Books To Gift Your Favorite Yogi

Written by Dr. Lorin Roche

Vital Yoga: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers by Meta Chaya Hirschl. This book won a Gold Award from the 2010 Living Now Book Awards and is written with beautiful clarity. I prefer to read it slowly, a paragraph at a time, as if I am hearing Meta speak it in class – although I’ve never met her.

The inside cover is a chart of the historical timeline of yogic philosophies, from Vedic times, through Patanjali, to the Tantras and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika – that I have seen referred to by Yoga teachers around the US and in England.

Meta worked as a manufacturing supervisor for the Miller Brewing Company, keeping an eye on the beer-in-the-making, then went into software and wrote code. She lived several lifetimes with a hefty batch of physical health problems before finding Yoga and her pragmatism shows. This is another coffee-table book, beautifully illustrated on semi-glossy paper like an art book.

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