Isbn: 9780473373863 - the yoga of sailing (anchors in an open sea, band 1) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 244.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 246 pages. 234pp. b&w map - very light dent & stain to upper edge o/w a clean, bright copyThe Yoga of Sailing is Book One of the Anchors in an Open Sea trilogy.Sa iling into the full catastrophe of livingHave you ever wondered what it is like to be driven, most of your life, by an overwhelming desire for spiritua l experience?Explore with Alice through thirty tumultuous years, cycling, tr amping, sailing, making love, sitting through spiritual retreats, teaching and r aising a family. Taste life through mystical eyes, experience being raised to he aven, experience the torment of being plunged to earth when the heart fails. Endlessly curious about life and the human journey, Alice throws herself with ab andon into the natural world, rough and raw, creating heroic confusion while plu nging deeply into the mystery of mind. What she discovers at the end is not what she expected.This is your chance to travel with her and come to understand why her desire for spiritual experience was so overwhelming and why she found it so hard to make peace with ordinary living.The autobiographical honesty and poetical language make this story compelling. Hang on as you sail off with her into the ocean of stunning sunsets and wild waves.A romp with Alice, her dau ghter Emily and father Roger, on an adventure through the Pacific. Sailing is th e protagonist of the story - the sails, the sea, the winds, the islands and the sea-sickness. Alice journeys into nature, leaping to freedom, caught in a myster y she doesn't understand. She knows her wondrous mystical experiences don't last , they don't solve anything, but she's stuck. Ordinary life seems mediocre and u nfulfilling. She can't let any of it go.While Emily is missing her boyfriend, Al ice is falling in love with her mystical beloved - that is until she falls in lo.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorDyana Wells trained in the natural sciences before changing direction to Western philosophy and then, in her early thirties, she met her first spiritual teacher and dived deeply into meditation and Eastern perspectives.