{ "item_title" : "The Mat Is a Mirror", "item_author" : [" Christof Rauber "], "item_description" : "The yoga studio is the heavy bag. Your life is the real fight.Most of us practise for years. We get more flexible, we get stronger - but in everyday life we are the same as before. We still snap at our partner over small things, still reach for the phone at the first flicker of boredom, still lie awake at 2 am replaying the day.The Mat Is a Mirror shows how yoga becomes a practice of the mind. No new technique, no extra time: only a shift in what you pay attention to during the class you already take.Drawing on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and the radical simplicity of Zen, Christof Rauber - former entrepreneur, Zen practitioner and yoga teacher in Zurich - offers a clear, modest working model: Manas, the busy mind that judges, narrates and fixes, and Sati, the quiet Witness that simply sees. Between them lies the gap of awareness: the length of one breath in which a reaction can become a choice.In this book you will find: four doorways into mindfulness - body, breath, question, naming - that open at any moment of the dayhow balance poses, transitions, rest poses and Savasana turn your class into a mindfulness laboratorywhy the Buddhist parable of the two arrows explains so much of our everyday sufferinga simple four-step sequence - breath, question, name, smile - for the moments when life throws a punchfour short exercises that fit into a full lifeWritten for householder yogis - people with jobs, children and little time - this is not a book of poses, and it does not promise permanent serenity. It offers something more useful: a way to use the hour on the mat so that it reaches the rest of your life.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/3/95/267/211/3952672114_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "25.00", "online_price" : "25.00", "our_price" : "25.00", "club_price" : "25.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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