“Just
Breathe is a brilliant book… It goes well beyond the physical practice of
yoga asana to reveal the deeper life practice in the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. It
is the perfect book for all, starters or practitioners, not only to expand
their love and understanding of Yoga, one of India’s greatest contributions to
humanity, but to live life with fullness.”
– Kabir Bedi, Indian
television and film actor
There
seems to be a yoga studio in just about every city in America these days. 24
hour big-box gyms even have yoga classes scrunched between their weight lifting
courses and Zumba dance sessions. The Western world has, in a sense, taken Yoga
and run with it as an alterative to pilates and dance
routines, resulting in this ancient practice leaving its mental and spiritual
origins in India, far behind.
“Yoga
is a science of the mind. It not only teaches us how to live a more mindful and
meaningful existence, but it also helps us discover our remarkable individual
potential,” says Radhika Vachani, the founder and CEO of Yogacara Healing Arts,
one of the most popular yoga and wellness institutions in Mumbai, India.
This
is the heartbeat behind her new book, Just Breathe: The Most PowerfulTool for Personal Transformation and Happiness [Westland Publishing,
July 15 2017], the first-ever book written as a tribute to the renowned yoga-legend BKS Iyengar.
In JustBreathe, Vachani begins with her personal journey with Iyengar yoga that
helped her climb out of a pit of anxiety, depression and illness, into a life
of meaning and joy. Just Breathe takes readers through an
inspiring journey based on the ancient text of the Yoga Sutras, and shows us how
to skillfully maneuver through this complex rollercoaster called 'Life,’ all
centered around one main point: your breath. Through simple, practical
techniques, Vachani demonstrates how the breath
is by far the most important tool in helping you train and discipline your mind
into stillness. A restless mind is not only the route cause of all your
experiences of pain and pleasure, but it also determines your ability to discover
the best version of yourself.
“If you do not take the time to bring order to your mind, despite
everything you do or achieve, your happiness and sense of satisfaction will be
short lived and you will spend your entire life on a treadmill to nowhere,”
says Vachani, who gave up a successful corporate career in San Francisco to
start her holistic wellness business back in India. “My hope is that Just
Breathe inspires individuals to take full responsibility for their
lives, the state of their minds and the enhancement of their life experiences.
Every single one of us have access to a vast reservoir of intelligence,
creativity and wisdom that we may never access unless we learn how to do it. Just
Breathe is precisely about this journey of self discovery that unfolds
through the training of the mind through simple yet integral breathing
practices.”
In
Just Breathe, Vachani addresses:
·
Changing the way we think so we can
live life with meaning, discovering our full individual potential
·
Becoming more responsive versus reactive
·
Handling challenges, stress and
anxiety with grace and equanimity
·
Understanding how the mind functions and
creates all our experiences of pain and pleasure
·
Yoga, the life practice-developing the
art of living skillfully, the journey that is well beyond the physical practice
of yoga as seen in the Western world
·
The highly advanced practice of
meditation as the ultimate goal of yoga, and the importance of the
pre-meditative practices in this journey
·
The path of self discovery and to uncovering
our amazing individual potential
·
And much more…
"Each
one of us is faced with a tremendous amount of impermanence, volatility and
uncertainty in our lives, thus learning how to live life skillfully,
living yoga as a life practice, is an integral learned art," Vachani
says.
RADHIKA VACHANI is an author, motivational speaker, yoga
and holistic wellness expert, and the Founder of Yogacara Healing Arts in
Mumbai, India (www.yogacara.in). A
devoted student of the Iyengar School of Yoga for 15+ years, Radhika quit her
successful corporate career in San Francisco, to start Yogacara in 2010, after
having experienced life-transforming changes with the practices of Iyengar Yoga
and Ayurveda. She began Yogacara with the intention of enhancing human wellness
and spreading these ancient Indian sciences globally. Yogacara has built a
diverse community of corporate leaders, professionals, housewives and senior
citizens, that share one common goal: developing
inner awareness-the
most powerful driver for change, expansion and growth.
Radhika also runs life-transforming retreats all over the
world, in the Himalayas, Ladakh and at her Retreat Center outside of Mumbai in
Alibaug. To learn more, visit www.yogacara.in
or connect with Radhika at radhika.vachani@yogacara.in and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Just Breathe is
available on Amazon and
wherever books are sold.
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