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Poses of peace: Yoga practice around the world
From the banks of the ancient Ganges River to the glamor of Beverley Hills, from living saints to Hollywood celebrities,Michael O’Neill’s quest to capture the esssence of yoga spans time, space, and peoples. His stunning images celebrate how the age-old discipline of asanas has developed into amodern global community of 30 milliion practitioners, united in physical, spiritual, and mindful practice.

A yoga instructor in his own right, O’Neill’s own knowledge of yoga informs and inspires his stunning photography of the intricate positions, the rituals, the festivals, the meditations, and the symbols of yoga. He photographs some of the most important yogis of our time including Eddie Stern, Rodney Yee, Dharma Singh Khalsa, B.K.S. Iyengar,as well as those famed for integrating yoga into their high-profile lives, such asChristy Turlington and Sting and Trudie Styler.

The images are accompanied by illuminating captions and insightful essays from leading yogisH.H. Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and Eddie Stern, who together discuss the history of yoga, its dissemination into popular culture, and its health and healing capacities as a way of life.
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