Susanna Barkataki - Embrace Yogas Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice

Praise for
Embrace Yogas Roots

I cant think of anyone more
suited to lead the way to embrace yogas roots than Susanna. This book should be required reading in yoga teacher trainings across the world.

Rachel Brathen,
Author of Yoga Girl

A must have for any teacher or practitioner of yoga wishing to embrace its lineage.

Kathryn Budig,
Founder of Aim True

Susanna Barkatakis words are vital medicine for yoga today. Study, absorb and share this with your communitywatch the lines of communication open and expand.

Elena Brower,
Bestselling Author of Practice You and Art of Attention

You must read this book.

Amber Karnes,
Founder, Body Positive Yoga

Embrace Yogas Roots should become a curricular text in all yoga teacher training programs and essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the effects of cultural appropriation, race and white supremacy. We have an opportunity to change the tide and Susanna Barkataki is uniquely qualified to act as our guide.

Donna Farhi,
Author of Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Embrace Yogas Roots is a crucial addition to every yoga practitioners bookshelf.

Jessamyn Stanley,
Author of Every Body Yoga, Founder of The Underbelly Yoga

Susanna Barkataki is a bold, fearless leader who is leading the charge in decolonizing yoga.

Jesal Parikh,
Yoga is Dead Co-Founder, Yogawalla

Required reading for anyone who teaches yoga, works as a healer or is interested in equity and equality on the mat.

Dianne Bondy,
Founder of Yoga for All Yoga Teacher Training 200/300/500

Her words are like water
washing away the confusion around cultural appropriation with clear thinking, viveka, allowing us to move into a new chapter in yogas ancient historyone that harkens back to a tradition which has always been equitable, inclusive and accessible at its heart.

Jivana Heyman,
Accessible Yoga Founder and Director

Susannas commitment to the themes of roots and healing is needed for our world to be in equanimity, unity and connection!

Hemalayaa Behl,
Yogini, Transformational Facilitator, EMBODY Leadership Coach

This is it. The long-overdue conversation that has been swept under the rug year after year. Its a call to action for the yoga community as a whole. Teachers, students, practitionersthis book is for you. Its for all of us.

Nadia Carriere,
Founder of The Universal School of Yoga

She beautifully guides us through discourse, doable steps, and refined tools; all designed to aid readers in building an authentic yoga practice.

Maya Breuer,
E-RYT 500 Emeritus Trustee, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health

Embrace Yogas Roots gives us a roadmap back to the heart of a practice meant to be about liberation for all beings, not just individual wellbeing.

Hala Khouri,M.A., SEP,
Co-Founder Off the Mat, Into the World

Susanna Barkataki gently illuminates a path back from highly processed modern yoga to its nutritive, medicinal rootliberation. The world needs this book now more than ever!

Lakshmi Nair,
Satya Yoga Cooperative

Barkataki has given us a practical guidebook to help deepen our understanding of yogas rich history so as to preserve the integrity of its future growth. I highly recommend this book.

Seane Corn,
Co-Founder, Off the Mat, Into the World, Author of Revolution of the Heart

Susanna has created a gift to our yoga community that should be a part of all yoga teacher trainings and on the shelf of all teachers and practitioners.

Kelley Palmer,
Solution Architect, Mama, Yogi, Writer, Advocate

Embrace Yogas Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice

Copyright 2020 by Susanna Barkataki

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Publishers Cataloging-In-Publication Data
(Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.)

Names: Barkataki, Susanna, author.

Title: Embrace yogas roots : courageous ways to deepen your practice / Susanna Barkataki.

Description: Orlando, Florida : Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: ISBN 9781734318111 (black and white) | ISBN 9781734318104 (color) | ISBN 9781734318128 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Yoga--History. | Yoga--Social aspects. | Philosophy, Asian. | Social justice. | Cultural appropriation. | Mind and body. | BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Yoga.

Classification: LCC BL1238.52 .B37 2020 (print) | LCC BL1238.52 (ebook) | DDC 181.45--dc23

Special Edition Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7343181-0-4

eBook ISBN: 978-1-7343181-2-8

Printed in the United States of America

Welcome to
Embrace Yogas Roots:
Courageous Ways to Deepen
Your Practice

If you would like to jumpstart your exploration of the traditions of yoga and want to immediately integrate that knowledge into your practice while preparing for the deeper lessons presented in this book, Susanna has created a complementary video masterclass to accompany this book on how to start and end your yoga class confidently while embracing yogas roots.

Extend your learning and get support for your journey to bring the yoga tradition alive in your practice and honor its roots now.

www.namastemasterclass.com

Aum.
Asato ma sad-gamaya;
tamaso ma jyotir-gamaya;
mrtyor-ma amrutam gamaya.
Aum.
Shanti, shanti, shanti.
Aum.
Lead me from unreal to real;
lead me from darkness to light;
lead me from death to immortality.
Aum.
Peace, peace, peace.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28

Invocation

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti

Let us embrace yogas roots and honor our teachers together.

I honor my teachers. I honor your teachers.

I embrace all the elements, earth, water, fire, air and space.

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