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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Yoga and the Quest for the True Self about Yoga, Quest, Self with the genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Exercise & Fitness.
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conversations.value: Despite skeptical jibes from his well-meaning friends, the author set off for a four-month yoga retreat in rural Massachusetts. Ten years later, he is still there. A psychotherapist left in the lurch after a long-term relationship, the author was experiencing the same deep questioning of life that he had witnessed so often in his practice. His self-prescribed antidote was to pursue a life of contemplation and inner discovery that he had felt drawn to for some time. the author is at turns frank in describing his own obstacles and epiphanies, brotherly in relating anecdotes of friends and patients on similar quests, and clinical in his trenchant psychological summations of why we find ourselves estranged and how yoga and meditation bring us back to clear awareness. Like Mark Epstein's <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767902351/${0}">Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart</a> , Yoga and the Quest for the True Self is a milestone in the melding of Eastern and Western methods of personal transformation. --Brian Bruya
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conversations.value: Despite skeptical jibes from his well-meaning friends, the author set off for a four-month yoga retreat in rural Massachusetts. Ten years later, he is still there. A psychotherapist left in the lurch after a long-term relationship, the author was experiencing the same deep questioning of life that he had witnessed so often in his practice. His self-prescribed antidote was to pursue a life of contemplation and inner discovery that he had felt drawn to for some time.  Yoga and the Quest for the True Self is the author's chronicle of self-discovery. the author is at turns frank in describing his own obstacles and epiphanies, brotherly in relating anecdotes of friends and patients on similar quests, and clinical in his trenchant psychological summations of why we find ourselves estranged and how yoga and meditation bring us back to clear awareness. Like Mark Epstein's <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767902351/${0}">Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart</a> , Yoga and the Quest for the True Self is a milestone in the melding of Eastern and Western methods of personal transformation.  --Brian Bruya