Subtitled “A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga’s History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices,” this book gives an overview of yoga’s evolution from its earliest origins to what it is today. Structured in concise and accessible chapters, it outlines key themes that have influenced practices over the centuries, quoting widely from traditional texts and putting their teachings into context, while also dispelling misconceptions. The Truth of Yoga draws on the latest scholarly findings, and presents them with practitioners in mind, highlighting ways to keep traditions alive in the twenty-first century.

Once upon a time, I was an ambitious young foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Disillusioned by the paper’s support for starting wars, I resigned to start a Balkan Summer of Love. Needless to say, this didn’t go as planned. A tragi-comic caper ensued, as this memoir records. It probably didn’t help to do business with gangsters, but it seemed to make sense at the time. Overall, the experience taught me how not to change the world, and why getting high was not the same as being enlightened…