Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life Paperback

“Rebecca Pacheco is a refreshing new voice on the yoga scene, reminding us of what balance, flexibility, strength, humor and yes, integrity and wisdom, are all about. ” —Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living and Mindfulness for Beginners.

“Rebecca reminds us that while yoga doesn’t have to be our sole workout, it is our soul workout. And with this beautiful, thoughtful, wise book, Rebecca has given us an incredibly powerful tool to do just that. ” —Huffington Post

“A must-read book that brings a contemporary voice to ancient yoga teachings” — Yoga Journal

In Do Your Om Thing, master yoga teacher and creator of the popular blog Om Gal. com Rebecca Pacheco shows us that the true practice of yoga is about much more than achieving the perfect headstand or withstanding an hour-long class in a room heated to 100 degrees. “Yoga is not about performance, ” she tells us, “it’s about practice, on your mat and in your life. If you want to get better at anything what should you do? Practice. Confidence, compassion, awareness, joy—if you want more of these—and who doesn’t—yoga offers the skills to practice them. ”

In her warm, personal and often hilarious prose, Rebecca translates yogic philosophy for twenty-first-century devotees, making ancient principles and philosophy accessible, relatable and genuinely rooted in our world today. As she illuminates how the guiding principles of yoga apply to our modern lives, Rebecca reveals that the true power of a yoga practice is not physical transformation, but mental and spiritual liberation.