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Reviews for Inez Baranay

  Sun Square Moon

  Inez is a writer. She is a yogini. She has traveled the world telling her stories and her story here, in sun square moon, her natal horoscope, is about her art and her yoga, it is about awareness, about creativity, and about her journey through those worlds. It's a story with a disarming honesty. She does not even avoid sex, dreams, drugs, retail therapy and money. She has indulged. But the theme of the book is practice, body and self. She is not brain dead. She scotches the rumour that yoga produces an empty head and a flaccid sex life. She brings her awareness from yoga to writing and takes it the other way as well. Ultimately there are no differences. This is one of the few books on yoga that is not trivia.

  Norman Sjoman, author of Yoga Touchstone and The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace. https://www.blacklotusbooks.com/links/gate.htm

  With The Tiger

  Inez Baranay is very correct and vivid in her portrayal of India's flavours of vadai, coffee and the music season. She exposes the experiences India offers foreigners seeking 'nirvana'.

  Deccan Herald

  The Edge of Bali

  Baranay writes evocatively of the Bali landscape, raising serious questions within vivid description. New myths jostle with the old.

  The Sydney Morning Herald

  Sheila Power: an entertainment

  A rattling good read that defies that defies pigeon-holing into any one genre.

  Sydney Star Observer

  Pagan

  Pagan is brilliantly written. As well as being very readable, it offers a highly intelligent analysis of the themes of Australia's 20th century cultural history.

  The Advertiser

  Between Careers

  Like good sex Between Careers gets better and better.

  The Sydney Morning Herald

  Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea

  Her experiences have resulted in a highly readable account of a world left behind by the 6 o'clock news.

  Cleo

  All titles by Inez Baranay will be available as ebooks by the end of 2011.

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  Sun Square Moon: Writings on Yoga and Writing

  Inez Baranay

  Copyright Inez Baranay 2011

  First published by Writers Workshop Kolkata in 2007

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  Cover design by Daniel Stephensen: https://springstreetworkshop.com

  With his kind permission this book is dedicated to

  Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar

  our beloved Guruji

  and to

  Kay Parry

  my long-time teacher

  and

  students of yoga

  Contents

  01 Introduction: Practice, Body and Self

  02 Tadasana: One

  03 Reluctance

  04 Balance and creativity

  05 Asana and the spiritual

  06 Writing about the body

  07 The yoga commodity

  08 Four ways to be right

  09 Tadasana: Two

  10 The enemy of dreams: writing/dreams/yoga

  11 Yoga and writing: one: stages

  12 Tadasana: Three

  13 Yoga and writing: two: practice

  14 Paralipsis: drugs, money and sex

  15 Tadasana: Four

  16 Tradition and Authority

  17 Tadasana: Five

  Bibliography

  Acknowledgments

  Afterword to ebook edition