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Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion.It is the most valuable inheritance of the present.It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow. Swami Sivananda Sarswati. This book is the most comprehensive text ever published on yoga. It contains a complete course of 36 structured lessons on all the practices of integral yoga. The lessons were compiled from the teachings given by Swami Satyananda
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When I first wrote this book, I thought almost entirely in terms of ’ speed reading ’ : reading faster, getting through more information more quickly, understanding, remembering and using information you get from books. Now that a few years have passed and I ’ ve moved from tertiary education and into the glorious world of work, bills, mortgages
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