THE REAL YOGA

The yoga you've been doing is missing 90% of the practice. Yoga is the science to Enlightenment and Oneness.

Mudras. Mantras. Energy locks. Breathwork. Visualization. For thousands of years, Indian masters passed these practices down from teacher to student. Then modern.

A top-selling California realtor. Severe depression. Barely able to get out of bed.

One plane ticket to Africa. One Indian master. 30 days.

That's where she finally found the real yoga.

Most people never make it past the ground floor.

In Sanskrit, yoga means union. A yogi isn't a fitness instructor. A yogi is someone who has woken up.

Real yoga is an ancient science for bringing your body, energy, mind and consciousness back into one. In yoga's eight-story building, the poses you know are only the third floor. Most people think that's all there is.

You think you're practicing yoga. You've only made it to the front door.

This book gives you back what was taken out.

- Mudra: The word means "seal." Find out how one light touch of your thumb and index finger connects an energy circuit in your body, and why, without mudras, the energy you build leaks out halfway.

- Mantra: It literally means "a tool that sets the mind free." Learn how a single "Om" can switch off the radio in your head that never stops playing.

- The three bandhas: The root, belly and throat locks work like sealing the lid on a kettle. They trap your life force so it can build, ignite and finally break through.

- Pranayama: Prana isn't air. It's life energy. Your breath is the only bridge between your unconscious mind and your conscious one, and it's open to you at any moment.

- Gaze and visualization: Steady your eyes and your mind follows. Picture something clearly enough, and your body starts building itself to match.

- Puja: Why do practitioners perform this offering ritual before dawn? She skipped it for 30 straight days, then realized it was the deepest healing of all.

- The eight limbs: Learn why they're eight parts to practice together, not eight steps to climb one at a time.

- Your seven bodies: Find out where your desires, thoughts and karma are really stored, and why stretching will never reach them.

- The Root Pattern: See how a program written before you turned seven keeps replaying in your relationships, your career and your bank account.

- Yogananda and Steve Jobs: Discover what the book Jobs reread every year taught him, and the costly way he misread it.

No fluff, no mysticism for its own sake. Every practice is broken down so you understand what it's working on, and why it works.

This book is for you if:

- You've done yoga for years and your body has never looked better, but the anxiety inside hasn't budged

-You're stuck in depression, anxiety, insomnia or an endless loop of overthinking, and knowing better hasn't set you free

-You've always had a feeling there's something deeper to yoga, and nobody has ever shown you what it is

This isn't a lofty classic written by a guru on a mountaintop. It's the true story of an ordinary woman who hit rock bottom, trained with an Indian master and woke up.

She just wanted to lose a few pounds. She found herself instead.

Open The Real Yoga, and walk through the door that's been closed for far too long.