A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga: How to create a more authentic practice

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Learn how to incorporate traditional yoga into your modern practice and feel the benefits. Yoga in its traditional form is a practice focused on inclusivity, inner work and peace. But the yoga that is practised today in the West has got a little lost along the way. In this accessible beginners guide, Indian yoga teacher Nikita Desai brings us back to the authentic roots of this ancient practice. In A Beginners Guide to the Roots of Yoga, Desai unpicks the complexities of the modern yoga space. Moving away from the focus on physical poses, she delves into traditional resources to show how yoga can help your mental and spiritual wellbeing. With a range of enlightening essays, she explores why change in the industry is vital, before centring key yogic texts, philosophy and history in a digestible manner to give you a basic understanding of the origins of yoga. Desai then guides you through integrating these foundations into your current practice both on and off the mat, so you can enjoy the benefits of the tradition while helping to make yoga today a more inclusive and diverse space. A Beginners Guide to the Roots of Yoga is the perfect companion for anyone wanting to make their practice more authentic.

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Nikita Desai is a yoga practitioner and educator who owns the Arya Yoga Studio. She is passionate about promoting the traditions and health benefits of authentic yoga to the modern yoga space, and runs workshops on this topic both online and at festivals. Nikita is based in London. @nikyyoga https://www.aryayogastudio.com/