Free Community Event!
Grab your book and save the date! Community Members are welcome to join even if they are unable to finish the book, as there is much value to be gained from discussion.Â
Please sign up in advance so we know to expect you!
*ACY does not provide copies of the book. Please consider checking out from your local library, or buying used. The audiobook is available as well.
From GoodReads.com:
Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation—a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision.
Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than ten years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent “pilgrim’s progress” for today’s world. He demystifies the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga, and shows how it applies to our most human dilemmas: from loss, disappointment, and addiction, to the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. And he shows us that in yoga, “liberation” does not require us to leave our everyday lives for some transcendent spiritual plane—life itself is the path.
Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.
For more information on the book club facilitator Stephen, please see his teacher profile here!  He teaches donation-based Warm Vinyasa Flow Mondays 7:30am-8:30am, Gentle Flow Mondays 12:15-1:15pm, and Warm Vinyasa Flow Tuesdays 4:15pm-5:15pm.
Please create a Mindbody account for each participant if registering more than 1 person. If you have any questions regarding registration, please email Kelsey at  kelsey@ashevillecommunityyoga.org
