A lively and playful notebook-style book of drawings and text describing the yoga teaching of Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten. Black and white drawings are interspersed with sumptuous color images in this high-quality, full size book, reflecting the unique, iconoclastic and inspired teaching of these esteemed international teachers.
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"[The book accurately reflects] Van Kooten and his partner Angela Farmer [who] are famous in yoga circles for their iconoclastic teachings, which emphasize inspiration over alignment and dogma." -- Yoga Journal magazine
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Victor Van Kooten is a dutch yoga teacher and artist who studied with Sri B. K. S. Iyengar of Pune, India in the late sixties and the seventies. Traveling and teaching internationally with his partner Angela Farmer, they are both known for their innovative and fresh approach to yoga from the inner body.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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This one is different...,
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This review is from: From Inside: Out: A Yoga Notebook (Book I) (Paperback)
This is a completely different kind of yoga book - refreshing and thought provoking. Books about Yoga in the US tend to be mechanics' instruction manuals for the human body. Place hip here, rotate collar bone thirty degrees, breathe deeply, that kind of thing. All of this comes from Americans' infatuation with fitness. The problem is, fitness is a BYPRODUCT of yoga, not the main goal. On the other side of the spectrum, books about Yoga from Eastern writers are often lost in Hindu/Sanskrit jargon about raja yoga, karma yoga, etc. While fascinating to pursue for some, not everyone wants to become a sannyasin. Yoga master Victor Van Kooten has here broken out of the mold, and anyone who has studied with him knows that's his specialty. His book is about JOINING your body with your mind and your spirit, which is what yoga is all about anyway. The book tries to help you see not just what a yoga pose (asana) is doing to your physique, but what it's doing to the universe, and what universal principles flow through the pose. All of this is accomplished with Van Kooten's inimitable freehand drawings and text, leavened with his wonderful sense of humor. Too many yoga 'gurus' have turned this ancient wisdom into a Schwarzenegger-like training program, and have divorced mind, body, and spirit. Van Kooten is the host for a joyous reunion.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A refreshing look at an ancient wisdom,
By J. Watts (Woodbridge, CT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: From Inside Out: A Yoga Notebook (Book II) (Paperback)
Victor Van Kooten is a modern yoga master who has accomplished what yoga masters set out to do; he has transcended the physical limits that the body imposes on the vast majority of us. No, this doesn't mean he leaves his body every day for a trip to Jupiter. What it means is he can FEEL the connections his body has to his mind, his spirit, the Earth, and the rest of the universe. Consequently, this book is a fascinating look at what it's like to not be limited by stale thinking.Most Americans view their bodies with less affection than they view their cars. Their cars are subjected to love, care, and are seen as a link to who they really are. Their bodies are abused, forgotten, and denied as a fundamental expression of self. Western medical traditions, harkening back to Rene Descartes' amputation of mind from body, have amplified this view, and modern doctors are turned into glorified auto mechanics. Ironically, a real auto mechanic is more sympathetic to you having an emotional connection to your car, than a modern MD is to you having an emotional connection to your body. Most doctors get uncomfortable with the whole idea that your emotions, mind, and spirit might play a part in your body's function. Many of them deny it altogether, dismissing everything that doesn't spring from scalpel or pill as just "a placebo effect". What Van Kooten does in this joyous tome, is remind you of connections. Yoga does mean "union" in Sanskrit, after all. He shows the connections of the parts of your body to your mind, and the mind-body system to the universe. For him, there are no separations, and all is flow. The proof is in the pudding, and students who have slumped in to his classes have been known to dance out the door. In addition, Van Kooten is an artist, and his book uses the non-verbal side of the brain to get the message across, along with his delightful sense of humor. Anyone interested in yoga will find this book revivifies their practice. Anyone interested in art, or the body-mind, should likewise buy this delightful book. In addition, check out the amazing video by Victor's partner Angela Farmer, called The Feminine Unfolding. Here you can see their yoga in action.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Transcendent Book on Yoga,
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This review is from: From Inside: Out: A Yoga Notebook (Book I) (Paperback)
This book was beautifully executed, interspersing artwork with prose, on the energetic flow of yoga. Victor Van Kooten and Angela Farmer expressed how yoga can be a practice that frees us from internal blocks and makes us MORE ALIVE! This book was a wonderful support on the path for those who want to awaken, and to become more alive. I am a yoga teacher, and I meet so many people going through life like robots, chasing after money, security, popularity, relationships, material possessions, jobs that they feel will define them and give them respect. When the yoga works, we understand that those things - well, they are nice, no doubt of that, but they are not "IT". Happiness is elusive, and jobs, relationships and material possessions won't bring us happiness. Those are about anticipation, excitement, and the "chase" to attain a goal. Until you have chased a lot, attained a lot of goals, and realize "there has to be more to life than this!", you aren't ready. When you are ready, and begin to awaken to being a fully alive human, without concern for what others think, finding YOUR connection to life, this book will visually and verbally give you a few of the insights you may need! Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!
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