Amrit Yoga and the Yoga Sutras

Amrit Yoga and the Yoga Sutras by Amrit Desai, Yogi Amrit Desai (Paperback / softback, 2010)

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Homegrown Gurus states: A member of the merchant class, Chimanlal supported his family by bartering goods in his storefront, literally a veranda in front of their home in the tiny village of Pratappura in the western state of Gujarat , India. Later, when Amrit was ten, the family moved to Halol. Although Amrit preferred sports over study, his heart ached for spiritual growth, even at an early age. But he was not attracted to the rituals in the Vaishnav temple to which his parents belonged. He wanted to learn from a living master rather than from rituals and dogma.

At age 15, he got his wish when he met his guru, Swami Kripalvananda Bapuji , a wandering sadhu who was offering free talks on the deeper meaning of the Bhagavad Gita in Halol.

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Young Amrit taught himself the practice of yoga asana postures from a chart he had found tacked to the wall of the local gym. Such was his enthusiasm that he started teaching others outside the goshala cow-house where his guru lived. After the swami observed him teaching one day, he offered him a rare demonstration of his private sadhana.

During the fifteen minutes that Amrit was permitted to observe, the swami went into a trance-like state and began to perform movements unlike anything he had seen on the asana charts. As I watched in awe, he was dancing, weaving in and out of complicated asanas. After a brief period studying engineering and training with the Indian Air Force in Madras , Amrit returned to Halol and took a job teaching art at the local high school. He married his betrothed, Urmila Shah, in January The couple moved to Ahmedabad a year later where Amrit earned his art diploma over the next four years.

The couple had two more children, Malay and Kamini After a year and a half of working around the clock, teaching fashion design classes and yoga on the weekends, and washing dishes at the college cafeteria that secured him a full meal every day , he was able to save enough money to bring his wife and infant son to the US.

Amrit Desai's creative life had started early when he made clay figures of animals as his mother washed clothes by the river bank. As a teenager, he sketched scenes of his village life and got his first job as a poster designer for a movie theater. Graduating in with a degree in fine arts and design from the Philadelphia College of Art, he took a job with a textile firm.

Amrit Yoga and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Yogi Amrit Desai (paperback and ebook)

During this time, he also began to see success with his unique style of watercolor paintings, earning awards at a number of art shows, including a show at the prestigious Philadelphia Museum of Art. Experimenting with unusual tools, he created distinct textures and patterns with razor blades and eye-droppers. His short but prolific professional career as an artist spanned only four years from to Desai abruptly abandoned the promise of his artistic pursuits to dedicate his life to the inner journey of yoga.

Desai had started teaching yoga in the early s in the Philadelphia area while still an art student. Returning to the US, with his guru's blessing and the support of his family, he left his job with the textile firm to form The Yoga Society of Pennsylvania and dedicate himself full-time to teaching yoga. In , he had a Kundalini awakening experience in which his body automatically moved through a series of flowing yoga postures without his direction. Do you I need to do both parts?

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Amrit Yoga and the Yoga Sutras by Yogi Amrit Desai

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