The Mystics in ancient India did not create yoga with our busy modern lives in mind. In fact, yoga was originally developed for people who would renounce the world. Therefore, learning to look at yoga in a new way is essential. In Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic, Darren Main explores the time-tested practice and philosophy in a new way. By using modern examples from more than a decade of experience with this ancient practice, Darren brings the principles of yoga into clear focus, making them user-friendly for yogis living in the modern world.
Praise for Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic Our urban lifestyles could greatly benefit from a bit of mysticism. To live in a magical mystical world one only has to uncover the potential in their own daily lives. Darren Main gives us a how to book on yoga, which offers us ways to transform the mundane into the mystical. As yogis we pursue transformation, but mostly get change. Darren Main and his book, Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic motivates us with simple humor, honesty and personal experience to stay the course, keep the faith and turn change into transformation.
With gentle humor and obvious knowledge, Darren Main shares with us his practice and understanding of yoga. He does a beautiful job of interspersing his life experiences with the classical teachings in a way that makes them clear and alive. You will enjoy this book.
Darren Main’s Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic is a completely delightful and insightful introduction to the philosophy of yoga for the modern practitioner. Darren’s personable and compassionate style makes the philosophical visions of Classical Yoga and Vedanta easily accessible and applicable for the quickly growing yoga community in the West. Darren Main's latest book, Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic, is intended for those facing the quintessential trials of modern life, while simultaneously attempting to live out a spiritual one. . . Main covers dense territory in a clear, straightforward manner while drawing from ancient texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads and the Yoga Sutra. Darren Main explains how to turn [life's] distractions into darshan, with humor, lightness and love. He also explains the Yoga Sutra, the chakras, pranayama and other esoteric yoga philosophies in a live and engaging way. His humorous style and delicious honesty create a thoroughly modern approach to this ancient science. |
Darren Main takes yoga off the yoga mat - adroitly applying the ancient system of yoga to the daily challenges of the modern mystic. Combining personal insight and anecdotes with practical, down-to-earth teachings, he brings you into a world in which every part of your life has sacred and transformative potential. In Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic Darren Main has given us a wonderful doorway into the potentially complex world of raja yoga. His work provides us with a compelling but accessible Baedeker to the sometimes dense world of Indian metaphysics. It is a yoga commentary with a uniquely American voice. It is piquant, experience-near, real, contemporary, and very sensitive to the reader for whom the world of Sanskrit terms and Indian ideas is completely new and foreign. Darren's work, like raja yoga itself, is precise and methodical in its approach to spiritual practice. |
