Meditations on Intention and Being: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion

Rolf Gates, Director of the Kripalu School of Yoga, is a leading voice in contemporany yoga, and his work is used as a resource for yoga students and teachers worldwide. A former US Army Ranger and social worker specializing in addiction, Rolf brings his eclectic background to his teaching and life.

Gates draws on twenty years of teaching experience to help readers-from experienced yogis to novices seeking a little tranquility-fundamentally reconsider their relationships with their minds, bodies, and the universe around them through self-reflection.

Gates' second book of 365 daily meditations incorporates, as he describes them, ancient lessons, from Pantanjali's Yoga Sutras and the Buddha's instructions on mindfulness and compassion, into guidance for living and loving well. He organizes this set of meditations according to practics of intention, practices of the heart and practices of being, with references between these ancient instructions ad life in the twenty-first century.

Over the course of seven chapters, he explores Effortlessness, Nonviolence, The Spirit of Practice, Mindfulness, Compassion and Loving-kindness, Equanimity and Joy, and Intention and Being, giving readers the tools they need to effect positive changes in their lives.