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PTArtwork from Cover, Preface, Chapter 1
Here is a list of all the artwork quoted in the chapter. It is displayed in colour in the sequence it appears in the book for those who want to listen to the book on Kindle and see the illustrations here.
Book Cover, Journey With Yoga.
Author: Kristina Kurilionok
Source; License: Illustration commissioned for the book. Permission to share provided credits to the artist and book are clearly provided below the picture.
Chapter: Cover.
Description: A yogi climbs the "mountain of mind".
Book Excerpt
This is the start of our yogi journey. Imagine you are leaving home. At your doorstep, what is your motivation for the journey with yoga?
Infra-red light reflection from clothing of different colours. - Toshiaki Ichinose, Yukikko Yoshida
Author: Toshiaki Ichinose, Yukikko Yoshida
Source; License: https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/; Paper available on the internet site
Chapter: It is mentioned on chapter 1 in relation to the choice of clothes by traditional yogis.
Description: Notice how the yogi clothing colours (yellow; orange; red) are cool under the sun.
Book Excerpt
See above an experiment done in 2019 by Japanese researchers which found out a practical property of clothes used by Yogis more than 2500 years ago. Red, White; Grey; Yellow (and Orange) are the coolest to wear under the sun (see picture/test) for their infra-red reflection capabilities.
Shaolin Buddhist Monks wearing Orange and Yellow (Orange = a mix of Red and Yellow, both cool under the sun).
Author: Shi Deru (a.k.a. Shawn Xiangyang Liu)
Source; License: Source: Wikipedia. License CC3.0.
Chapter: It is mentioned on chapter 1 in relation to the choice of clothes by traditional yogis.
Description: Two monks training together, a symbol for teaching and learning. One of my teachers had North Shaolin influence and he always said: “spirituality and life are about teaching and learning”
Book Excerpt
This image shows how yogis preferred colours that were cool under the sun. See previous image on infra-red reflection from clothes of different colours.
Swami Sivananda.
Author: unknown
Source; License: Source: Internet.
Chapter: Chapter 1.
Description: Notice the choice of colours for the yogi clothes.
Book Excerpt
The animal skin, body painting and aura all have a symbolic meaning. We talk about this symbolism later; for instance the three lines on the forefront and the three parts of the Om symbol (ॐ) we will explain later.
Number of publications on mindfulness indexed in Web of Science 1966-2020.
Author: ResearchGate
Source; License: Source: Internet.
Chapter: Chapter 1 - Yogis as Practical People.
Description: look at the exploding rates of scientific articles published recently on mindfulness or meditation. A subject mastered for over 2500 years at the personal and spiritual level.
Book Excerpt
I say that yogis have climbed the mountain of mind before science as a computer scientist with some published articles. I do not say that as a layman despising science.
A cartoon depicting a yogi at the top of a hill and its own brother science climbing on its footsteps.
Author: Annie-b
Source; License: Illustration commissioned for the book.
Chapter: Chapter 1 - Yogis as Practical People.
Description: Ancient wisdom has worked on mindfulness more than 2500 years ago. Science is exploring it just now.