Collects songs submitted to the 'Department of Folk Songs' on the popular radio show 'Prairie Home Companion,' including sea chanteys, parodies, and nonsense songs

Author Benjamin Lorr wandered into a yoga studio—and fell down a rabbit holeHell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga. Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found the yoga reinventing his life. He was studying Bikram Yoga (or “hot yoga”) when a run-in with a master and competitive yoga champion led him into an obsessive subculture—a group of yogis for whom eight hours of practice a day in 110- degree heat was just the beginning.So begins a journey.  Populated by athletic prodigies, wide-eyed celebrities, legitimate medical miracles, and predatory hucksters, it’s a nation-spanning trip—from the jam-packed studios of New York to the athletic performance labs of the University of Oregon to the stage at the National Yoga Asana Championship, where Lorr competes for glory. The culmination of two years of research, and featuring hundreds of interviews with yogis, scientists, doctors, and scholars, Hell-Bent is a wild exploration.  A look at the science behind a controversial practice, a story of greed, narcissism, and corruption, and a mind-bending tale of personal transformation, it is a book that will not only challenge your conception of yoga, but will change the way you view the fragile, inspirational limits of the human body itself.

Product Description: A guide to the complete yogic teachings of Sri Shyam Sundar Goswami by his disciple and spiritual heir • Shows how to enrich your physical Yoga practice by embracing and integrating Hatha Yoga’s metaphysical, spiritual, and psychological traditions • Explores the energy-focusing movements known as mudras and purification methods that can boost metabolism, reinforce muscles, and facilitate advanced sexual practices Foundations of Yoga presents the full and rigorous yogic training of traditional Hatha Yoga as taught by renowned Indian Yoga master the late Sri Shyam Sundar Goswami...read more

Product Description: Stimulates thoughts and expands awareness of the philosophical dimensions of yoga in its many forms and practices Yoga — Philosophy for Everyone presents a wide array of perspectives by people whose lives have been touched by yoga...read more

The author of The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga and an experienced California yogi student present an accessible question-and-answer reference to yoga philosophy and practice, offering insight into some of the discipline's most challenging concepts, from the role of breath in asana to yoga's ability to promote non-violence. Original.

Paramhansa Yogananda--the great master of yoga and author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi--said that Abraham Lincoln had been a Himalayan yogi in a past life, and that he was reborn as the great aviator, Charles Lindbergh. In this book, a veteran yogi and minister presents hundreds of similarities in the personalities, characters, and life circumstances of these two American icons, and explains how past-life influences affect us all. Original.