The Forgotten Body: A Way of Knowing and Understanding Self - Softcover

Cobb, Elissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972919147 ISBN 13: 9780972919142

Publisher: Satya House Publications, 2008

Synopsis

In a culture where many have become accustomed to looking outside of themselves for guidance, The Forgotten Body offers readers an opportunity to turn inside for the answers to questions about life and self. The author, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Program Director, shares the wisdom and insight garnered from her own journey of self-actualization that led her to the realization that mastery of one's mind can be most effectively attained through the rediscovery of one's physical body. With her own personal truths used as examples of the body's powers of wisdom, she urges readers to take them just as they are; her own truth, not the truth. The text follows a ground up approach beginning with the use of one's body as a foundation for self-discovery and proceeds skyward, leading the reader along a path that many will find parallel to their own life journeys. The Forgotten Body is not a rulebook or a rigid doctrine. It is simply a guide to the rediscovery of the simple and profound truths of one's own body.

About this title

From the Author

Elissa Cobb is the Program Director of the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Training Center. She has more than twenty years of combined practice and teaching experience in fitness/health consulting, body/mind and movement practices, Yoga and Yoga Therapy. She leads Phoenix Rising training programs worldwide and is an active speaker at mind/body industry conferences and symposia.

Review

There are many books about yoga on the market today but this one stands out because it is written from the author's self-discovered and profound truth. Elissa has used both her yoga and her life experience (including a great moose story) to probe deeper levels of awareness and understanding. She offers, not a solution, but a process a process, that if followed, will provide the reader with ways to engage their body as a guide for living a full and authentic life. A 'must read' for all who seek a higher path written with passion, compassion, and elegance. --Michael Lee, MA, Founder, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

The Forgotten Body delivers a balanced summary of ancient values of Yoga coupled with the supporting modern science in a very readable, moving flow. The interlaced story of Elissa's experience sustains the flow and brings this work to a comfortable closure while maintaining the momentum into our stories of embodiment. A wonderful balance to the West's bias toward the outer, consumer-based search for wholeness. --Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, RYT Dynamic Systems Rehabilitation, Scottsdale, AZ, President, International Assoc. of Yoga Therapists

Edition details

• Publisher: Satya House Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0972919147
• ISBN 13: 9780972919142
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224