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new year new books

BOOK

INSTRUCTIONS FROM SOURCE
By Vikas Malkani & Sally Forrest

This new coffee table book is a visual delight! With beautiful pictures of flora,
fauna and picturesque settings from around the world, this hard cover book
contains 188 instructions from mindfulness guru, Vikas Malkani, in simple
one or two lines per page, and serves as a gentle nudge on how to lead a
fuller, finer and happier life. You can randomly open any page in the book
and read instructions that Vikas says just came to him from a source, an
inner voice, consuming him and compelling him to pen it all down overnight.
“The instructions just kept flowing from my head to the paper,” he told Yoga
Journal SG.
Instruction 41, for example, next to a radiant and detailed picture of a
single yellow flower—one of many beautiful photos clicked by life-coach Sally
Forrest—reiterates a simple, yet profound point.

You are nothing but a product of how you think.
To change your life, change your thoughts.
It’s that simple. As you think, so you become.

Instructions from Source is available at
http://www.soulcentre.org/shop.html for S$75.
-YJ Editor

THE HEAD THAT WON’T STAND

By Kavita Chandran

This book is a beautiful tapestry of stories about yoga, life journeys and

finding one’s balance in modern world’s many obscurities. The author

weaves into the narrative her own yoga journey and true stories of several

other women she met in Mysore, India, moving from stress and unhappiness

to a space of peace within. What ties all the women together in the narrative is

their young, strict and scrupulous young guru.

The Head that Won’t Stand is a gripping non-fiction that takes us far

beyond the asanas of Hatha yoga to explain with great clarity, and a

wonderful simplicity, various aspects of yoga—from the meaning of Om, the

eight limbs (Ashtanga), pranayama, philosophy and lots more.

The author, who is also the editor and publisher of Yoga Journal Singapore

and was a news editor at the time she wrote the book, weaves together

a holistic view of yoga with humour, insight and a journalist’s powers of

observations.

“Unlike other yoga books that insist more on perfecting your asanas, this

book reassures you that it’s ok to fail. It tells you that in order to attain

perfection, you will face struggles but your continuous efforts will help you

conquer your fears and emerge as a winner.”

• The Times of India

Published by Wisdom Tree Publications, the book has been receiving great

reviews in India. ‘The Head that won’t Stand’ is now available in Singapore for

$19.99 at Touch The Toes store on 14 Haji Lane in Singapore.

-Pamposh Dhar