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Gary Kraftsow

Gary Kraftsow Books

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Gary Kraftsow is a renowned yoga teacher and author. His book 'The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A New Translation and Commentary' delves into the study and elucidation of yoga philosophy. Details about his life and specific contributions are limited at this time.

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“Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know.”

Knows Choices Morning Wake Up Waking Waking Up In The Morning

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“I'm in a body, and when my sleep ends, I'm awake. I don't really understand the... that's not really a choice. I mean unless I chose to stay in bed, but I'd still be awake.”

Mean Stills Ends Body Choices Sleep Bed Awake

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“I have projects in life that I'm engaged in, I have things that stimulate me in my life, that make me happy. But more interesting for me is: I'm still trying to figure it out.”

Trying Stills Interesting Figures Projects Engaged Make Me Happy

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.”

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like anyone else - but overall, when I wake up in the morning, and I'm aware, I'm like, "Ok. What's happening today? What's next?"”

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“For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.”

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“I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.”

Years Growing Son Married Twenties My Son Divorced

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.”

Moving Europe India Traveled Static

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“What I like the best is when I can be still and not move.”

Stills I Can Moving

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“I'm very happy when I have time to just be.”

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.”

Thinking I Can Feelings Next Morning Alive Wake Up Get Up Waking Waking Up In The Morning

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“Your experience is nutrition. You digest your experience and you grow from it.”

Grows Nutrition

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“Our job with our digestion is to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, and to not dwell on the waste - which is my issue with some of the pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga, by the way.”

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Author:Gary Kraftsow

“I studied Sanskrit for many years, and I've got all the coursework for my Ph.D. And a lot of what's going on in American Yoga is just made-up stuff. Smart people, even good people, Western therapists, Yoga therapists and other things, Western healthcare practitioners who love Asana and say, "Let's make up yoga therapy."”

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“Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.”

Kind Yoga This Life

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“I just think that the reality of life is impermanence. That's the foundation of understanding what Yoga is, and we're here for however long we're here, and then it's over. And I've known this since I was a kid.”

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Author:Gary Kraftsow

“It's going to be over fairly soon; it goes by quick. Even if I live till I'm one hundred, it's quick.”

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over.”

Want Stills I Can Morning Alive Figures Wake Up

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I do, the dharma that I do - which I love - with my teaching, with my family, my son, my students, my girlfriend.”

Share Teaching Students Son Duty My Family Girlfriend My Son Dharma My Girlfriend

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“The thing that I do in my day-to-day is teach Yoga, and train teachers, and train therapists, and now my life has gone to a whole other level because I became involved with people at the very top of American healthcare.”

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“There's the kind of people like me, who spent years in India, have learned Sanskrit, have done this work deeply - they probably say for lifetimes - now interfacing [with the mainstream].”

People Years Kind Done India Lifetime Like Me Mainstream Sanskrit

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.”

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“We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.”

Sides Dark Psychology Pops Dark Side

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“Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.”

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“When I was twenty, and my family were business people, and I had disappeared to India and they were like, "What are you doing?" I had a good relationship with them, and it wasn't like a rejection or anything, but they couldn't understand why I was going to India.”

People My Family India Twenties Rejection Good Relationship

Author:Gary Kraftsow

“I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.”

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“You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason.”

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