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YOGA, MEET LIFE.

Sometimes an hour-long yoga class is the only chance we get to connect meaningfully with our bodies and our minds during an otherwise hectic week. For a brief moment we’re able to let our worries melt away and feel relaxed, centered, and fully ourselves. Have you ever wondered how it would feel to bring that experience out of the yoga studio and into your everyday life?

In Do Your Om Thing, master yoga teacher and creator of the popular blog OmGal.com Rebecca Pacheco shows us how to do just that. The true practice of yoga, she says, goes deeper than achieving the perfect headstand—it is about bringing awareness and intention to every part of our lives. In her warm, personal, and often hilarious prose, Rebecca translates yogic philosophy for its twenty-first-century devotees, making ancient principles feel accessible, relatable, and genuinely rooted in the world in which we live today.

ISBN-13: 9780062273383

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 09-06-2016

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Rebecca Pacheco is the author of Do Your Om Thing, as well as a yoga and meditation teacher and speaker. Previously, she founded and wrote the popular blog OmGal.com (2008-2015) and created the Runner’s World Yoga Center. She studied English Literature at the University of Richmond and frequently writes for The Boston Globe on a range of mind-body topics. She lives in Boston.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part 1 Yoga: Ancient and Modern

Chapter 1 The Making of a Modern Yogi 3

Chapter 2 The Eight Limbs: Walking an Ancient Path in Modern Life 13

Part 2 The Body

Chapter 3 What Do You Want to Embody? 79

Chapter 4 The Chakras: Feeling Light from the Inside Out 85

Chapter 5 The Koshas: Balancing the Layers of Your Being 123

Part 3 The Mind

Chapter 6 Why Meditate? 147

Chapter 7 How to Meditate: Five Essential Elements 153

Chapter 8 Make It Your Om: Finding Your Meditation Style 163

Part 4 The Spirit

Chapter 9 OMG, Is Yoga Religious? 181

Chapter 10 Suggestions for Spiritual Sustenance 193

Chapter 11 Love 245

Acknowledgements 253

Glossary 257

Recommended Resources 261

Bibliography 263