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“There is no daily practice without some formal training; and there is no deep spiritual training without the mess of relational life. The two are one,” says Michael Stone. This wise, accessible guide—now revised and updated—makes the spiritual and ethical teachings of the yogic tradition immediately relatable to our practice on the mat and in our everyday relationships and activities. Stone draws from numerous disciplines—including Buddhism and psychotherapy—to provide an in-depth, completely clear explanation of yogic philosophy, along with teachings on how to work with the conditions of our life and fully appreciate yoga as a practice of being intimate with moment-to-moment reality.
Michael Stone

Michael Stone

Author Bio

Michael Stone (1974–2017) was a prominent and innovative Buddhist teacher, yogi, psychotherapist, and author. He was the founder and director of the Centre of Gravity Sangha, a community of yoga and Buddhist practitioners based in Toronto, and he taught widely and had a large international following. He is the author of The Inner Tradition of Yoga, Yoga for a World Out of Balance, Freeing the Body Freeing the Mind, and Awake in the World. For more information visit michaelstoneteaching.com.

Praise for the book

Richard Freeman

author of The Art of Vinyasa

“This book brilliantly reveals the profound underpinnings of yoga that are rarely taught or understood. Stone’s demonstration of the interdependence of theory, practice, and daily life makes yoga work on a level that will truly transform our minds and hearts, as well as our bodies.”

Richard Rosen

author of The Yoga of Breath

“Michael Stone manages to seamlessly integrate traditional teachings with contemporary advances in the field—and so adds new dimensions of meaning to both.”

Sharon Gannon

cofounder of Jivamukti Yoga

“Intense, poetic, wise, practical, intimate, and visionary—the mind-body connection has never been better explored or explained.”

Frank Jude Boccio

author of Mindfulness Yoga

“Michael Stone details a practical and pragmatic psychology of yoga that can provide all practitioners a way to engage with the deepest transformative possibilities that yoga can offer. It is certainly what we need now.”

Paul Grilley

author of Yin Yoga

“This work is going to help deepen the practice of yoga in the West by presenting the mental disciplines of this ancient tradition in an accessible manner. Here is a pragmatic presentation of mental and spiritual training.”

Larry Payne

PhD, coauthor of Yoga for Dummies and Yoga Rx

“Few people on the planet have Michael’s gift to explore and explain in contemporary language the profound wisdom of yoga.”

Chip Hartranft

author of The Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali

“The Inner Tradition of Yoga has much to guide and inspire anyone on the road to insight.”

Author: Michael Stone

The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner

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