Contact Yoga: The Seven Points of Connection & Relationship

Brief Description:
In "Contact Yoga," Tara Guber presents the inspiring vision and philosophy of yoga created to inform and enhance your relationships with friends, lovers, and yoga partners. Grounded in traditional yoga postures, the Contact Yoga method explores that mysterious and dynamic edge where two people connect--physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
"Contact Yoga" offers valuable insight into the emotional and energetic dynamics of relationship, breaking down the barriers that keep us separated and putting us more deeply in touch with our partners and ourselves. Whether practicing with friends, classmates, coworkers, yoga partners, or lovers, the method opens the pathway to more successful and fulfilling relationships.
In this unique book, Tara Guber is joined by internationally recognized yogis and film and television personalities who reveal--for the camera--their intimate experiences of relationship as evoked by Contact Yoga. Through these candid moments, we are brought inside the practice, as these individuals relate how
Contact Yoga stretches, expands, and enhances their lives.
Even someone who does not practice yoga will find the philosophy informative and inspirational. "Contact Yoga" is direct, practical, and effective--a "real world" encounter with a practice that produces immediate results for a physical, emotional, and spiritual body that will transform your daily life.

Table of Contents:
Preface / Anthony Robbins -- Foreword / Deepak Chopra -- Indroduction: Tara Lynda Guber. My Journey into Contact -- Part 1. Contact: Background and Guidelines -- 1. The Seven Points of Contact -- 2. Points, Postures & Practice -- 3. Points in Practice -- 4. General Guidelines for Approaching Contact -- 5. Creating A Sacred Space -- Part 2. The Seven Points in Practice -- 6. The First Point of Contact: Trust -- 7. The Second Point of Contact: Passion -- 8. The Third Point of Contact: Commitment -- 9. The Fourth Point of Contact: Love -- 10. The Fifth Point of Contact: Communication -- 11. The Sixth Point of Contact: Vision -- 12. The Seventh Point of Contact: Union -- The Contact Yogis -- Acknowledgments.

Biographical Note:
Tara Lynda Guber has practiced yoga for more than 35 years. Her spiritual journey has included study and work with some of the most respected yoga teachers in the world. In 2001, Tara founded Yoga Ed., an organization dedicated to the development of health and wellness programs that utilize yoga's physiological, emotional, and educational benefits. Yoga Ed. offers these programs to children, teachers, and parents through schools and communities nationwide. Tara is also a founding member of the board of directors of the Accelerated School, an internationally recognized charter public school in South Central Los Angeles. The mother of four children--Jodi, Elizabeth, Sammy, and Jaxon--and the wife of Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, Tara resides in Los Angeles, California.

Publisher Marketing:
Contact Yoga presents an inspiring new vision of yoga created to deepen your relationships with lovers, friends, family and other intimates in your life. Contact Yoga explores that mysterious and dynamic edge where two people connect: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Tara Lynda Guber and Anodea Judith offer valuable insight into the dynamics of all loving relationships, using poses designed for two participants that bridge the "Seven Points of Contact." Contact Yoga brings these seven points (trust, passion, commitment, love, communication, vision, and union) into focus as points on the body, training patterns of connecting and distancing, loving and protecting, giving and receiving to be revealed at their deepest levels. Contact Yoga will appeal to all who seek depth and fulfillment in their relationships. Contact Yoga also features over one hundred striking tri-tone photographs by award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and director Norman Seeff. His vivid images capture candid portraits of renowned yoga teachers such as Patricia Walden, Anna Forest, and Shiva Rae, as well as celebrities in dynamic yoga poses including Cheryl Tiegs, Carrie Otis, Daphne Zuniga, Catherine Oxenberg, Linda Grey, Elizabeth Berkley, Harry Hamlin, and Lisa Rinna.

Contributor Bio:Guber, Tara Lynda
Tara Lynda Guber has practiced yoga for more than 35 years. Her spiritual journey has included study and work with some of the most respected yoga teachers in the world. In 2001, Tara founded Yoga Ed., an organization dedicated to the development of health and wellness programs that utilize yoga's physiological, emotional, and educational benefits. Yoga Ed. offers these programs to children, teachers, and parents through schools and communities nationwide. Tara is also a founding member of the board of directors of the Accelerated School, an internationally recognized charter public school in South Central Los Angeles. The mother of four children--Jodi, Elizabeth, Sammy, and Jaxon--and the wife of Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, Tara resides in Los Angeles, California.

Contributor Bio:Seeff, Norman
Norman Seeff is an award-winning photographer, director, and filmmaker who for over 35 years has defined the look of rock and roll through his dramatic and intensely personal photography and videos. His camera has captured hundreds of public personalities