Nischala Joy Devi - The Secret Power of Yoga: A Womans Guide to the Heart and Spirit of the Yoga Sutras

Praise for The Secret Power of Yoga

This sweetly voiced explication of the Yoga Sutras is disarming in its simplicity, charming and inviting the reader into the happiness of realizing that she/he is actually a manifestation of the Divine. I read it smiling all the way, and learning yoga philosophy as I was doing it.

S YLVIA B OORSTEIN , author of Pay Attention, for Goodness Sake:
The Buddhist Path of Kindness

Nischala Joy Devi has provided a dynamic new interpretation of the Yoga Sutras, one of the most important but esoteric guidebooks to deeper Yoga practice, that will make this wonderful ancient teaching accessible to modern readers and useful in their daily life. She has explained the essence of Yoga in a simple, direct, and relevant manner for all sincere students of the spiritual path.

D AVID F RAWLEY (V AMADEVA S HASTRI ), author of Yoga and Ayurveda

Weaving together her deep knowledge of the Yoga Sutras with her many years of teaching and studying, Nischala Devi has created a very readable and insightful book. Her words ring with the authenticity of a committed practitioner, and the exercises she offers the reader can be truly life changing. But I must admit, I loved her funny and inspiring stories the best! A book to be read again and again.

J UDITH H ANSON L ASATER , P H. D., P.T., yoga teacher since 1971 and author of six books, including A Year of Living Your Yoga

Nischala Devi has given us a fresh and compelling new look into the mysteries of one of yogas most important scriptures. Bravo! I heartily recommend her new book to all who want to understand (and trod) the practical path of liberation so brilliantly described by Sri Patanjali.

S TEPHEN C OPE , author of The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seekers Guide to Extraordinary Living

This book has the feel of divinely guided inspiration. A loving call to every woman who walks the sacred journey. Nischala Joy Devi breathes new life, enthusiasm, creativity, and insights into the endless secret powers of yoga.

L ILIAS F OLAN , PBS host and author of Lilias! Yoga Gets Better with Age

You hold within your hands a treasure box filled with priceless gems, collected by a most wise, gentle, and generous woman. This book promises to guide us, joyfully, to divine realization.

S HARON G ANNON , cocreator of the Jivamukti Yoga method

Devi boldly reinterprets the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali from a personal acknowledgment of feminine intuition. Many women will find it refreshingly accessible and uniquely relevant to their spiritual quest on the Yogic path. Nischala brings a delightful emphasis on the celebratory Divine, inviting readers to allow this liberating text and the visualizations shes added, to illumine our own sacred journey to the heart.

SARAH POWERS , international Yoga and mindfulness teacher

A wise womans guide to a life of peace and harmony. Full of heart and with a beautiful earthy wisdom, Nischala Joy Devi has crafted a whole new and feminine dimension to these ancient writings, bringing the age-old teachings of yoga right into our everyday actions and reactions.

A NGELA F ARMER , cofounder of Yoga from the Inner Body

This book is revolutionary! With great skill, Nischala Devi guides us on a journey through the Yoga Sutras; not through a dry, intellectual dissection of words, but by bringing us out of our heads and into our hearts, where the intuitive insights of these teachings reside. An inspiring guide that will nourish your practice and your life.

J ANICE G ATES , author of Yogini: The Power of Women in Yoga

By telling the story in another way Nischala Joy Devi allows these ancient Sutras from the soul to resonate in your heart. She delivers a bounty of stories, examples, experiential exercises, and new ways to awaken sacredness and experience life as a living joy. Like a green coconut, The Secret Power of Yoga invites you to hold it in your hands and open it. Read each Sutra aloud; through Nischala Joy Devis tender and subtle rendering may you find every line fresh, fragrant, and deeply satisfying.

S HANTI S HANTI K AUR K HALSA , P H. D., director of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology

Nischala Joy Devi illuminates a practical way to apply the Yoga Sutras to everyday living and spiritual awakening. Within the flow of her message is the trinity of bhakti, Jnana, and karma. With bhakti, her approach and understanding come from the heart as she inquires into the heart of the matter. Jnana comes from her years of devotion to yoga. She complements this experience with cross-references to various classic scriptures. Karma is reflected at the completion of each sutra with a lesson that welcomes self-inquiry and calls for positive action. Nischala Joy Devis commentaries, inspired from the feminine voice, will nurture many on the path of yoga.

K ALI R AY (S WAMINI K ALIJI) , internationally renowned yogini and founder of TriYoga

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The Healing Path of Yoga

To all the future generations of women and men
who will never even wonder if the
scriptures are also for women.