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VITAL YOGA
A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers
A full-color yoga book like no other on the market
Metta Garuda Mudra
Meta Hirschl opens the door to the full vision of yoga with graphics, photographs, and personal stories. Interwoven with discussions about the eight limbs of yoga as presented in the original literature, including the core principles, Sanskrit Devanagari, mantras, poses, breath work, mediation, a derivation of terms, compassionate communication guidelines, basic teaching principles, wisdom and photos of the great sages, recipes, and illuminating accounts by contemporary yogis. Throughout, readers are guided to connect with their inner selves, transcend fear, emotional turmoil, and attachment to the stresses of life.
This informative reference features a highly visual format, including a first-ever historical timeline of yogic philosophies, texts, and key figures. Introduced too is yoga therapy for everything from low back or knee pain to depression. Each chapter concludes with specific invitations to delve further into the heart of yoga. It is designed to enrich any chosen style of practice, and this book is ideal not only for yoga students and aspiring yoga teachers, but also for healing arts practitioners and their patients, as well as anyone seeking to cultivate a vibrantly healthy body, mind, and spirit.
LAYoga Review
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.
Meta Chaya Hirschl
Meta Chaya Hirschl, originator of the YogaNow Teacher Training Apprentice Program, has studied yoga for decades and been teaching for ten years. Before opening her yoga studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she received a bachelor of science degree in Food Science, took a job as a brewing supervisor, then earned a master of business administration degree in Information Systems and worked as a computer systems consultant, technical software writer, and university lecturer.
Meta took her first yoga class in 1978. Years later, after working in business, teaching in academia, and writing software books, she was drawn back to yoga following the development of a serious illness. Her passion for yoga led her to eventually open a studio and later establish the YogaNow Teacher Training Apprentice Program, a nationally accredited curriculum incorporating a variety of traditions and styles.