by Inez Baranay
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
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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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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