Weiser Concise Guide to Yoga for Magick : Builds Physical and Mental Strength for Your Practice

Yoga today connotes many images and ideas - from holy men on a high mountaintop to throngs of young women toting designer mats. Yoga, meaning "union," is actually a many-layered discipline designed to help an individual attain health, serenity, focus, and ultimately, union with the Divine. Aleister Crowley was one of the first Europeans to practice yoga and believed the practice was essential to spiritual growth, stating that "Magick is a Pyramid built layer by layer. The work of the Body of Light - with the technique of Yoga - is the foundation of the whole." Spiritual power demands physical health and the contemporary western practitioner can learn much from the ancient tradition of yoga.