Description: Sanskrit and yoga scholar Nicolai Bachman offers yoga teachers and students an in-depth resource for accessing, understanding, and practicing the core spiritual teachings of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras. Includes all the Sanskrit, color illustrations, and a fu
Brief description: Nicolai Bachman has been teaching Sanskrit, chanting, yoga philosophy, and Ayurveda since 1994. He has a knack for synthesizing and organizing complex topics into simple and understandable presentations. His education combines informal, traditional study with the academic rigor of university classes. Nicolai has studied extensively at the American Sanskrit Institute, the Ayurvedic Institute, the American Institute of Vedic Studies, and the Vedic Chant Center. He holds an MA in Eastern philosophy, an MS in nutrition, and is E-RYT 500 certified. Nicolai's publications include The Language of Yoga, The Path of the Yoga Sutras, The Language of Ayurveda, and 108 Sanskrit Flash Cards. For more, visit sanskritsounds.com.
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"This is an extremely helpful guide to decoding the intricacies of the Yoga Sutras. Nicolai has a remarkable way of elucidating this elaborate, hard-to-crack text in a way that makes the Sanskrit, the verses, the philosophy, and the practices accessible. I use it all the time for my research, writing and teaching." --Tias Little, author of Yoga of the Subtle Body
"Nicolai Bachman's Yoga Sutras Desk Reference is a wonderful opportunity for all yoga practitioners to really learn this profound art. It will keep drawing us into the interwoven fabric of different traditional schools, interpretations, languages, cultures, and even agendas in such a way that, as the sun releases its radiance, we can joyously release them all." --Richard Freeman, yoga teacher and coauthor of When Love Comes to Light