Yoga For Freedom

How twenty yoga students from America traveled to Nepal to raise awareness about child slavery and came home forever changed

Nonfiction, Travel, Asia, Southwest, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Volunteer Work, Adventure & Literary Travel
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Author: John Vourlis ISBN: 9780991566402
Publisher: Hometown Media Productions Publication: August 19, 2015
Imprint: HMP Language: English
Author: John Vourlis
ISBN: 9780991566402
Publisher: Hometown Media Productions
Publication: August 19, 2015
Imprint: HMP
Language: English

What happens when you take a group of yoga students and teachers from the US half-way around the world to Nepal to experience the beauty of that amazing country and to raise awareness about the awful practice of child slavery in that part of the world?

Author John P. Vourlis answers this and many other questions in Yoga For Freedom, a unique travel book about how 20 American yogis returned home forever changed after a two-week trip to Nepal. These intrepid travelers not only visited some of the holiest spiritual sites of Buddhism and the country’s spectacular natural wonders, but they also spent time at both a private and a government-run orphanage in Kathmandu, as well as an orphanage in western Nepal that was on the front lines of the child slavery problem.

Mr. Vourlis takes the reader on a magical journey that combines social reportage from a faraway land steeped in the mystique of the Himalayas, with a fascinating, poignant, and at times funny journey of self-reflection for this group of diverse travelers.

“When you change your focus from limitations to boundless possibilities, from doubt and fear to love and confidence, you open your world in entirely new ways,” says Baron Baptiste, international best-selling author of Journey into Power and My Daddy Is A Pretzel and founder of Baptiste Yoga, states about Yoga For Freedom. 

The book is “a very personal account of a journey of self-discovery, refracted through the roller coaster ride of interpersonal exchange among a disparate group of travelers in the ancient land of Buddha,” says Anup Kumar, Associate Professor of Communication, Cleveland State University, and author of The Making of a Small State.

Yoga For Freedom is animated by over 300 remarkable in-the-moment color photographs captured by several professional photographers in the group, and is based in large part on the journals kept by each member of the group. The emotional intimacy of the journals recorded by each traveler and the serendipity of the excerpts from these journals at first catch you unaware, but then as you move along in the story with the author, you begin to feel, in a special sort of way, as if you too are a member of the diverse group of travelers on this amazing journey.  

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What happens when you take a group of yoga students and teachers from the US half-way around the world to Nepal to experience the beauty of that amazing country and to raise awareness about the awful practice of child slavery in that part of the world?

Author John P. Vourlis answers this and many other questions in Yoga For Freedom, a unique travel book about how 20 American yogis returned home forever changed after a two-week trip to Nepal. These intrepid travelers not only visited some of the holiest spiritual sites of Buddhism and the country’s spectacular natural wonders, but they also spent time at both a private and a government-run orphanage in Kathmandu, as well as an orphanage in western Nepal that was on the front lines of the child slavery problem.

Mr. Vourlis takes the reader on a magical journey that combines social reportage from a faraway land steeped in the mystique of the Himalayas, with a fascinating, poignant, and at times funny journey of self-reflection for this group of diverse travelers.

“When you change your focus from limitations to boundless possibilities, from doubt and fear to love and confidence, you open your world in entirely new ways,” says Baron Baptiste, international best-selling author of Journey into Power and My Daddy Is A Pretzel and founder of Baptiste Yoga, states about Yoga For Freedom. 

The book is “a very personal account of a journey of self-discovery, refracted through the roller coaster ride of interpersonal exchange among a disparate group of travelers in the ancient land of Buddha,” says Anup Kumar, Associate Professor of Communication, Cleveland State University, and author of The Making of a Small State.

Yoga For Freedom is animated by over 300 remarkable in-the-moment color photographs captured by several professional photographers in the group, and is based in large part on the journals kept by each member of the group. The emotional intimacy of the journals recorded by each traveler and the serendipity of the excerpts from these journals at first catch you unaware, but then as you move along in the story with the author, you begin to feel, in a special sort of way, as if you too are a member of the diverse group of travelers on this amazing journey.  

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