HEALTH & MEDICINE

Ignite Your Yoga: How To Live, Practice, and Teach as an Authentic Yoga Steward

by Susanna Barkataki
Shambhala. Apr. 2025. 256p. ISBN 9781611809947. pap. $21.95. HEALTH
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Mindfulness leader Barkataki (founder, Ignite Yoga & Wellness Institute; Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways To Deepen Your Practice) reconciles yoga’s past with its present while offering a call to action that revises Seane Corn’s concept of “off the mat and into the world” with more complex, intersectional lenses of theory and practice. Barkataki’s book focuses on the embodied and esoteric ways in which yoga unites uncomfortable moments in the day-to-day with more transcendent, aspirational moments of beauty and bliss. She showcases how beautifully yoga’s origins, histories, and underlying philosophies meet deeply human needs, not for products or pretty poses but for deep internal work.
VERDICT This book is far more than a yoga book. It’s chock-full of historical information from key yoga texts and traditions, designed to increase a sense of stewardship for people’s individual and distinctive bodies, the land around them, and their communities. Give to fans of Jessamyn Stanley’s Every Body Yoga and Kathryn Budig’s Aim True. This title also makes a wonderful choice for activists and advocates.
Reviewed by Emily Bowles , Mar 14, 2025
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