Spectrum or Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health

Author: Dean Ornish

From the author of the landmark bestseller Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease comes an empowering new program that enables you to customize a healthy way of eating and living based on your own desires, needs, and genetic predispositions.

Dr. Dean Ornish revolutionized medicine by directing clinical research proving–for the first time–that heart disease and early-stage prostate cancer may be stopped or even reversed by his program of comprehensive lifestyle changes, without drugs or surgery. His newest research was the first to show that changing your lifestyle changes your genes in men with prostate cancer–“turning on” disease-preventing genes, and “turning off” genes that promote breast cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses, and in only three months. This study documented, also for the first time, that these lifestyle changes may significantly increase an enzyme that lengthens telomeres–the ends of your chromosomes that control how long you live. As your telomeres get longer, your life gets longer. Your genes are not your fate.

The Spectrum features one hundred easy-to-prepare, delicious recipes from award-winning chef Art Smith. Whether you want to lose weight, lower your cholesterol, reverse a major disease, or find a sustainable, joyful lifestyle, The Spectrum can make a powerful difference in your health and well-being.

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Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Author: Svatmarama

This affordable, definitive edition of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika contains the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and full-page photographs of all the asanas. The first edition of this classic to meet high academic, literary, and production standards, its for people who practice Yoga or have an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation.

Online Yoga Magazine - Christophe Mouze

"A new, crisp, no-nonsense translation of this great classic on the practice of Hatha Yoga. . . . If one, like me, holds that the work of the translator is to be as discreet as possible, then this very faithful translation is probably the best available. . . . The publisher, YogaVidya.com, also produces a version of the Gheranda Samhita, and, I am told, is working on the Shiva Samhita. Serious Yoga students watch out-these are serious translations of serious classics."

Yoga Site

"This lively and lucid translation includes the original Sanskrit. It is a must-have for any serious student or teacher."

Midwest Book Review

This faithful reproduction is an impressive and highly recommended reference for students and devoted practitioners of Hatha Yoga.

Kalamazoo Gazette

Written over five-hundred years ago, the text is considered by many a seminal work on the practice of Hatha Yoga.

Woodstock Times

There is a certain magic at work here—as if Svatmarama has projected himself through time, expressing himself through Akers.

Indology

Beautifully printed and translated. Wonderful pictures, too.

What People Are Saying

Ashok Aklujkar
Accurate and accompanied by clear pictures, this translation of an informative Sanskrit text is a very useful addition to the growing literature on Yoga in Western languages.
— author of Sanskrit: An Easy Introduction to an Enchanting Language