CONTACT YOGA

Contact Yoga Winner of:

2007 Nautilus Book Award
Category: Yoga/Massage/Bodywork

2007 Independent Publisher Book Award
GOLD, Category: Sexuality/Relationships

REVIEWS

Yoga Times (October 2006)
Yoga Journal (February 2007)

Tara Guber presents an inspiring new vision of yoga created to inform and enhance your relationships with lovers, friends and yoga partners. Using the Seven Points of Contact as her foundation, Tara combines yoga poses specifically designed for two practitioners with observations and insights into the dynamics, joys, challenges and potential of relationships.

For the first time, CONTACT brings you inside the yoga practice as yogis share their intimate and transformational experiences with this highly interactive and sensual form of yoga.

The international popularity of yoga both as a fitness and spiritual discipline continues to explode across all ages and genders as a remedy for the stress, tension and the physical and spiritual demands of modern life. Contact Yoga, a revolutionary form of partner yoga, is emerging as the physical embodiment, the living metaphor, of the dynamics of human relationships.

Contact Yoga holds that yoga is experiencing a natural evolution beyond individual practice; it is through intimate relationship and communication with each other that we can realize our true self and our greatest potential. Contact goes beyond partner yoga to express and embody the deeper and more transcendent aspects of relationship. In Contact, the energy of two people moves into postures to connect with and serve their desire for a deeper awareness of self and experience of spiritual union with another.

Unlike the numerous instructional books that deal specifically with the philosophy or regimen of yoga practice, CONTACT uses the sensual and dramatic poses of Contact and the Seven Points of Contact: Trust, Passion, Commitment, Love, Communication, Vision and Union to define and express the fundamental components of all fulfilling relationships, offering insight and wisdom for our daily lives. CONTACT is a book to be savored: it will appeal to all who seek depth and fulfillment in their relationships, whether or not you practice yoga.

PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:

TARA LYNDA GUBER
Tara’s life and work reflects her three primary passions: family, spirituality and education. As the mother of two adult daughters, Jodi and Elizabeth and two sons, Jackson and Samuel and the wife of Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, Tara is dedicated to the importance of a strong, collaborative family relationship and a quality education as the foundation for a fulfilling personal and professional life.

For eight years, Tara served as President of EDUCATION FIRST! a non-profit organization that used the resources of the entertainment industry to address the crisis in American education. In 1997, Tara and EDUCATION FIRST! Facilitated the donation of the $6.8 million site of California Fashion Industries / Carole Little to The Accelerated School and the California State University Foundation, the largest private donation ever given to a public school in California. In May, 2001, TIME magazine recognized The Accelerated School as the Elementary School of Year. This Fall, The Accelerated School opens a state of the art facility serving grades K-12 and over 1100 students, in addition to an Early Childhood Development Center, Adult Education Facilities and a Professional Development Center. Tara is a founding Board member of The Accelerated School and the primary sponsor for the School’s Health Wellness Program, including its core program, Yoga Ed.™

A 28 year practioner of yoga, a teacher, producer and philanthropist,Tara is the founder of Yoga Ed.™, the nationally recognized yoga for schools program. Recently profiled in Yoga Journal, TIME magazine The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and other national publications, Yoga Ed™ students learn yoga based skills to sustain their focus and concentration, develop strength, flexibility, balance, mental clarity, emotional intelligence and lifetime physical and mental health, thereby positively affecting their academic and social performance.

Tara resides in Los Angeles with her husband Peter, her daughters, Jodi and Elizabeth and her sons Jackson and Samuel.

ANODEA JUDITH
Anodea Judith, Ph.D. Is an author, writer, workshop leader and yoga teacher who has been working with the chakra system for nearly thirty years. She is the author of the chakra classic, WHEELS OF LIFE, as well as of EASTERN BODY, WESTERN MIND, THE CHAKRA SYSTEM (audio) and co-author of THE SEVENFOLD JOURNEY. She has a master's in Clinical Psychology and a doctorate in Mind-Body Health.

NORMAN SEEFF
For over 30 years, international award winning photographer, director and film maker Norman Seeff has defined the look of rock and roll through is dramatic and intensely personal photography and videos. His camera has captured hundreds of public personalities including, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Carly Simon, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, Whitney Houston, the Eagles, Chaka Khan, Santana, Frank Zappa, Fleetwood Mac, Kiss, Willie Nelson, Steve Martin, Martin Scorsese, John Huston, Norman Mailer for Rolling Stone, Life, Esquire, Time, American Photographer, and numerous record album covers.

His published books on his work include Hot Shots (1976) which won the New York Art Directors Gold Medal for Best Photography Book of the Year and Sessions (1985), an internationally published collection of two decades of his photography.

Norman has directed over three hundred television commercials for major advertising firms nationwide, winning many professional awards. Accounts include Apple computer, Glaxo-Wellcome, General Electric, General Motors, Nissan, Honda, Motorola, Levis, He has also directed telelvison series, including “30 Something” in 1990.

Other media projects include “The Artist’s Journey: The Roots of Funk” for the Experience Museum in Seattle, “Conversations with Scientists” for Caltech and “Conversations with the Mars Explorer Scientists” for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

He is currently completing “The Sessions Project”, a multimedia exploration of the creative process by artists themselves that embodies his thirty years of expression and interaction with hundreds of musicians and artists.