Finding More on the Mat: How I Grew Better, Wiser and Stronger through Yoga [2 ed.] 9781942493099, 9781890772185, 9781890772666, 9781935387473, 9781935387244, 1935387944

Table of contents :
Contents

Foreword: What Is “Something More”?

xiii

Author’s Note to the Second Edition

xv

Prologue

xvii

PART ONE: GROWING BETTER

Introduction: Grace Is Everywhere

3

1: The Fearless Heart

5

2: Cit Happens

23

3: Stupid Human Tricks

43

4: Travel Often, Pack Light

61

5: Be a Beginner, Always

81

6: Surrender to Grace

93

PART TWO: GROWING WISER

Introduction: The Meaning of Alignment

105

7: The Teacher Within

107

8: Pain Is the Guru

121

9: Desire Takes You Shopping

135

10: Cancer Sucks

145

11: Analysis Paralysis

157

12: Quiet the Mind

169

PART THREE: GROWING STRONGER

Introduction: Taking Action in Our Lives

185

13: Find Your Inner Badass

187

14: Breaking the Spell of Mortality

197

15: Help Is Not on the Way

211

16: Passion, Practice and Presence

225

17: Choose!

235

18: Arrive!

249

Afterword and After Afterword

259

Epilogue: I Wish For You an Epic Fail

261

Acknowledgments

267

Appendix A: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

269

Appendix B: Questions for Book Clubs

271

Recommended Reading

273

Index

275

About the Author

283