{"product_id":"the-psychophysical-lab-yoga-practice-the-mind-body-problem","title":"The Psychophysical Lab: Yoga Practice \u0026 the Mind-Body problem","description":"\u003ch4\u003eA New Book by Ohad Nachtomy \u0026amp; Eyal Shifroni\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYoga practice aims at transforming the heart and mind of the practitioner. But how can this practice produce such a transformation? And what does this transformation consist of?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt is often said that \u003cem\u003easana\u003c\/em\u003e (posture) practice is a transformative experience. While this sounds good, it is rarely specified \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e such transformation consists of. And it is even rarer to find an account of \u003cem\u003ehow\u003c\/em\u003e such a transformation can come about as a result of \u003cem\u003easana\u003c\/em\u003e practice. In this book, the authors use their rich and diverse backgrounds, their shared interest in the wonders of the body and the mind, as well as their love for yoga, to offer both practical explorations and theoretical survey of the subject. The book has four chapters:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003col\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eA experiential section\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eA discussion of the physical and mental effects of yoga practice\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eA survey of the approaches taken by philosophers to the mind-body problem, from Aristotle to contemporary approaches\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePractice sequences\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003csection class=\"av_textblock_section\" itemprop=\"blogPost\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"avia_textblock \" itemprop=\"text\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOhad Nachtomy\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor of Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, USA. Ohad held research and teaching positions at Princeton University, Fordham University, and the École Normale Supérieure in France. He is the author of two monographs on Leibniz’s philosophy (Springer, 2007 and Oxford University Press, 2018), the editor of five books, and the author of some fifty academic articles. Ohad has studied yoga with Eyal Shifroni since 2002 as well as at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Eyal Shifroni\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1954; he has studied and practiced Yoga since 1978 and has taught Iyengar Yoga since 1985. As a senior-level teacher, Eyal directs the “Iyengar Yoga Center of Zichron-Ya’akov” in Israel and conducts yoga workshops in Israel and around the world. Eyal holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Technion (the Israeli Institute of Technology) and taught Computer Science in colleges in Israel for many years. Eyal has translated two of B.K.S. Iyengar’s books to Hebrew and authored the following books (in English): \u003cem\u003eA Chair for Yoga\u003c\/em\u003e and the series: \u003cem\u003eProps for Yoga\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eVol. I, II, III\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"EYALSH01","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32052887978051,"sku":"BKSHIFPSYC","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7259\/1939\/products\/699.jpg?v=1595601509","url":"https:\/\/www.hardbackhollow.com\/products\/the-psychophysical-lab-yoga-practice-the-mind-body-problem","provider":"hardbackhollow","version":"1.0","type":"link"}