The Art of Vinyasa: Awakening Body and Mind through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga

A radical presentation of the most rigorous form of contemporary yoga as meditation in motion

In The Art of Vinyasa, two of the most well-respected teachers of the Ashtanga style of yoga, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor, explore this rigorous practice not as a gymnastic feat, but as a meditative form. They reveal that doing the practice—and particularly the vinyasa, or the breath-synchronized movements—in such a deep and focused way allows practitioners to experience a profound awakening of ...