By Charlotte Bell, with a foreword by Donna Farhi
Rodmell Press, 2007, $14.95

“I had to ask myself how, as a city-dweller with a full-time job, I could let my practice infiltrate my life so the whole thing becomes an expression of yoga,” writes Charlotte Bell. She weaves together the teachings of Patanjali and the Buddha, bringing the Eightfold Path, as given in the Yoga Sutras, and Buddhist mindfulness practice successfully into the fabric of her daily life and, through her teaching, into the lives of her students.
    Bell, a B.K.S. Iyengar-certified yoga teacher, has been working with her blend of practice and mindfulness, or insight meditation, since 1986. She has come to an ever-deepening awareness that “yoga is the settling of the mind into silence” and that it is possible to find this silence in the midst of daily life. One does not have to be a scholar of yoga philosophy or a Buddhist to appreciate this book, which will be meaningful to serious yoga practitioners who want to live their practice at work, at home, and in relationships.