Middle Passage Press
October 15, 2017
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Noted Political Author Takes a hard
Hitting Revealing Personal look at the Fact and Fictions in the Yoga World
In A Skeptic’s Journey Through The Yoga Experience, noted political
analyst, media commentator and author, Earl Ofari Hutchinson steps out of his prime
area of notoriety and expertise, namely politics, to take readers on his
personal exploration of the world of yoga. For years, Hutchinson, has trained,
studied, and practiced yoga philosophy and techniques. He started out by his
own admission as the skeptic’s skeptic about yoga. He regarded it as something
for mystics, health food fadists, and women. This notion went spinning when
Hutchinson found that yoga improved his flexibility and created a more relaxed
mood. This was especially important to counter the intense daily stresses that
come with being a political analyst and commentator.
In A Skeptic’s Journey Through The Yoga Experience, Hutchinson takes
the reader on his excursion through the yoga experience. He looks at the
history, the myths, the controversies, the practice, the philosophy, the
growth, commercialism of, and impact of yoga. He examines the racial and gender
conceptions and controversies that confront yoga, as well as the controversy
and debate over the physical hazards of yoga to men especially.
“Yoga dates back more
than 5000 years,” says Hutchinson, “So, I emphasize that this is a small primer
solely to give a skeptic’s impressions of some of the hot button issues and controversies
in the yoga world. The book in no way pretends to be a comprehensive and
definitive study of yoga. There is a library full of books and studies that
examine in depth the history, philosophy, and practices of yoga, as well as the
many schools of yoga.”
During his years of yoga
practice, Hutchinson kept a journal noting his feelings, and thoughts about the
various poses, movements, and mental and physical changes and benefits of yoga.
He intersperses his yoga journal notes throughout A Skeptic’s Journey Through The Yoga Experience. The aim is to
personalize the huge impact that yoga has had on his life and the lives of
millions of Americans.
“Yoga makes many claims
physical, mental and spiritual, some it fulfills, others are doubtful,” says
Hutchinson, ”I take a forthright personal look at them as a wildly popular
practice and philosophy.”
A
Skeptic’s Journey Through The Yoga Experience is his effort to
provide a unique, and compelling, journey through that experience.
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