Michael Roach is the first person in the West to have spent twenty years living in the harsh conditions of Tibetan monasteries and to have earned the title of geshe—an unusual “doctorate” in Buddhism. Geshe Michael Roach is the author of global bestsellers “The Diamond Cutter” and “The Tibetan Book of Yoga.” More than thirty translations of ancient Buddhist texts are to his credit.
In the book “How Does Yoga Work,” Geshe Michael Roach and his coauthor Christie McNally explain, in a fairy-tale form, simply and engagingly, the secrets and deep essence of yoga. This book may interest not only specialists but also curious beginners. Among all yoga books translated into Russian, this one most simply and captivatingly explains that yoga is not just “Eastern fitness,” but above all a philosophy and a way of life.
“How Does Yoga Work” is the first—and the only—book of its kind because it tells about the effects and mechanisms of yoga in the most unexpected literary form: in the form of… a fairy tale! In its pages, a young Tibetan girl who is looking for a continuation of her yoga studies gets drawn into dangerous adventures in the north of medieval India. Events that threaten her life turn into the most surprising yoga school of all—both for the heroine and for her pursuers.
“How Does Yoga Work” literally explains “with your own hands” how yoga practice affects the world of the practitioner from within and without, what the point and meaning of yoga practice is, and how yoga can transform ordinary reality.
Geshe Michael Roach is a recognized master of yoga, a yogin with over twenty years of experience, who spent more than ten years in monasteries with the greatest Tibetan teachers of our time. “How Does Yoga Work” can confidently claim the status of the only popular “explainer” about yoga—plus a bonus track: an exciting adventure storyline!