Yoga in the Kashmir Tradition: The Art of Listening Paperback – October 31, 2014

I don't often buy books anymore as I already have too many. But this is a must have. It beautifully combines the teachings with practices.

A timely and welcome addition to the talks and meditations given by Francis Lucille and Rupert Spira.

Having been a student of Jean Klein many years ago I found this book to be a wonderful memory and pointing out of the way. I'm grateful to Billy Doyle for writing this for all of us.

these exercises of yoga are so natural and beneficial

Very nice summary of an approach to yoga rooted in the nonduality teaching of Jean Klein.

It is a very interesting and useful book about body awareness and non dual awareness

Before yoga was marketed as a mechanical method of training the body, it was quite something else. It was a way of getting in touch with the deeper nature of our body, and of the physical world in general. By acquainting us intimately with our own bodies, their subtle rhythms and invisible tensions, yoga both soothes us deeply and makes us intensely alive to the human condition. It put us in touch with the subtle layers of reality from which all life manifests in the physical realm. By taking us back, layer by layer, to our deepest truth, yoga facilitated a life lived in awareness of reality as it is. It allowed for rootedness and sensitivity to all forms of human experience, rather than a constant sifting between the pleasurable and the painful.Billy Doyle's book presents this perspective on yoga, acquainting the reader with the energy body as the essence of what we work with in yoga. The various evocative passages and simple exercises in this book bring us more deeply in touch with this dimension of our being, so that when we do yoga next, we are able to live out its full potential. Equally so, as we live life, we are able to do with with deep sensitivity to all that we do and experience, rather than get engulfed in the mad rush of modern civilisation.This is not a book of instruction about yoga poses and pranayamas, although it does describe a few of them to illustrate its approach to yoga. Rather, it is an introduction to a profound perspective on the body and more fundamentally, on life itself. As the subtitle says, it brings alive yoga as an art of listening to our body, and then to everything else. Bringing this perspective to one's yoga practice can deeply enhance the relaxing impact of yoga, and also open up its spiritual aspects more vividly.Perhaps the only limitation of this book, and all others like it, is that yoga is an act which is difficult to learn merely from a book. While the book enters us through our mental space, yoga is grounded in physicality, and often, something may be lost in the transition there. Hence, it is a book to go back to repeatedly, perhaps like one would go back to a book of poetry, so that the way of being expressed in there slowly seeps into one's being.

Excellent

Exceptionally clear and helpful. A valued book purchase and very highly recommended. Heading to my second reading and probably third in order retain this guidance and apply.

Very functional and practical - great read to facilitate insight.