Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

Stephen Cope

Jan 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Paul Brion

About this audiobook

Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in the midst of our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as "the way of the fully alive human being"-a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation 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.

Ratings and reviews

Rated a one star cause the person reading it was annoying almost, computer like, fake, so yah that sucks.

About the author

Stephen Cope is Scholar Emeritus at the famed Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is a Western-trained psychotherapist and bestselling author of The Great Work of Your Life and Yoga and the Quest for the True Self. He lives in Albany, New York.

Paul Brion has a passion for storytelling. He believes that audiobooks-our most current form of the oral tradition-are the purest of the interactive and co-creative arts. An autodidact with eclectic interests, he enjoys learning about a wide variety of subjects, as he has an avaricious hunger for knowledge.