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Yoga students everywhere will be grateful for Charlotte Bells thoughtful guidance through the path of classical yoga. Her book is packed with stories that help us make sense of the sometimes-complex teachings of this ancient techniqueand the practical quality of her wisdom is irresistible.

Stephen Cope, author of The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seekers Guide to Extraordinary Living

In Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life, Charlotte Bell weaves in her deep personal life experiences to give the reader a comprehensive guide to a spiritual practice that is captivating and down to earth. With her many years of yoga practice and vipassana meditation, she comprehensively compares Patanjalis Yoga Sutras, including the eight limbs of yoga, with Buddhist philosophy and shows how each philosophy and practice support each other. Charlotte also has an extensive musical background and brings a lyrical quality into her writing that is creative and compelling. I highly recommend this book to my students and all students of yoga who want to explore yoga in all walks of their lives.

Elise Browning Miller, coauthor of Yoga: Anytime, Anywhere

Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life is an open invitation to bring yoga to your life. Drawing on many years of yoga study, Charlotte Bell presents its core teachings, artfully weaving in personal stories from her own journey. Part memoir, part instruction, the result is a warm and accessible guidebook to be sampled, savored, and shared. Receive this book as a gift, whether you are just beginning yoga or have been on the path for years.

Yael Calhoun, coauthor of Create a Yoga Practice for Kids: Fun, Flexibility, and Focus

In this intensely personal book, Charlotte Bells life stories flow seamlessly into a thoughtful discussion of the yoga philosophy that has shaped and supported her daily life for decades. While seemingly simple, the book radiates wisdom, humor, and hope. Highly recommended for all levels of students of yoga.

Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., P.T., author of A Year of Living Your Yoga: Daily Practices to Shape Your Life

Before I knew Charlotte Bell, I knew of Charlotte Bell. Her impeccable reputation and high standards seemed legendary to me. Then I met her and found her to be an ordinary person living an extraordinary life. I am thrilled that she decided to write about it in this book. This book is a story of the way one woman has authentically and powerfully woven the eight limbs of yoga into her very busy Western life. This book is an invitation. It invites us to explore the Yoga Sutras as a means of exploring our own busy and sometimes confusing lives. This book is a how-to manual. It gives us practical suggestions on how to reap the benefits of yoga without giving up the world we live in. Ultimately this book is a tribute, to all of us who have ever wondered where the yoga industry is headed, who see yoga being branded, owned, and made exclusive, and who see self-proclaimed gurus taking credit for another persons growth. Charlotte reassures us that the true spirit and power of yoga will prevail.

Dana Baptiste, Director of Centered City Yoga, Salt Lake City, Utah

For my mother

Acknowledgments

NO BOOK is the work of a single person. Every person Ive encountered, every experience Ive lived, has contributed to this text. It is with immense gratitude that I acknowledge the individuals who have helped most directly with the birth of this book, through their writing expertise, the strength of their yoga and meditation practice, or their continued support.

A community of fantastic writers have provided a solid sounding board for this project: Dawn Marano, for making my proposal shine; Dorothee Kocks, for her sage advice on the world of publishing; and Yael Calhoun, for her expertise on the process, from querying to copyediting. I am grateful for a renewed friendship with my childhood writing companion, Chandra Mattingly, whose astute eye for detail helped me refine my text when I could no longer see it for having read it so many times.

Thanks also to Greta deJong, founder of Catalyst magazine, who gave me my first opportunity to write for the public, and to Paul English, for the generous gift of a regular column in NewYork Spirit magazine. Finally, many thanks to Linda Cogozzo for so many lovely conversations and for believing in this project enough to bring it to fruition.

Ive been fortunate to study yoga and meditation with teachers of incredible depth and unflagging integrity. Pujari and Abhilasha of the Last Resort have been my lifeline through virtually all the trials and triumphs of my adult life. I cannot imagine who I would be without their love, support, and guidance. Donna Farhis teaching has expanded my practice in ways that continue to surprise me. Her writing is an inspiration, and her friendship is a jewel in my life. I am grateful to many other teachers who have shaped my understanding of yoga: Judith Hanson Lasater, Cita Mason, David Riley, Mary Dunn, and Elise Browning Miller. Thank you to Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Michele McDonald, Jack Kornfield, and Christina Feldman. Thanks also to Sara Chambers and the staff at Hugger-Mugger Yoga Products for two decades of inspiration, collaboration, and friendship. Finally, I am infinitely grateful to and humbled by the community of exceptional people who attend my classes each week.

Many of the stories in this book were written into my life by my birth family: my mother, Mary Jane; my father, the late Bob Bell; and my sisters, Martha and Anne. Im ever grateful for their creativity, intelligence, and integrity. Throughout the writing process, four precocious felinesJazzy, Pushkin, the late, great Cleocatra, and Fiona the heart kittyhave kept me balanced and have brightened my attitude with their love, loyalty, and countless humor breaks. And I am immeasurably grateful to Phillip for his love, optimism, support, and encouragement throughout the process of writing this book.

Foreword

BY DONNA FARHI

OVER TWENTY YEARS ago, I met Charlotte Bell at one of the first yoga intensives I taught in Jackson Hole,Wyoming.The deep level of introspection I sensed in her struck me. But there was something morea recognition that she was on the cusp of some momentous change. She invited me to come and teach in her hometown, Salt Lake City, Utah, and we began a long association that continues to this day. I must admit that in those early years I was not always comfortable around Charlotte.

As she so honestly reveals in this book, she was facing huge psychological and emotional obstacles (as was I), and I found her quite a depressing and sad person to be with. Perhaps this is a strange way to begin a foreword to this wonderful book, but this information about who Charlotte was when I met her seems most important of all to me. For in the years to come, as she committed herself to one long meditation retreat after another and to her yoga practice, I was deeply privileged to witness one of the most complete metamorphoses of any person, friend or student, I had seen. Soon I looked forward to my visits with Charlotte, as she revealed a character of complete integrity. Her commitment to leading a compassionate yet at the same time inclusively human life is expressed in her sense of fun and sharply observant wit. Does yoga work? It is one thing to ask this question when everything is going our way; it is quite another thing to ask whether this centuries-old practice holds up when our life is going to hell. Charlotte decisively answers this question in

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