Michael David Sowder

Sacred Letters (eBook, ePUB)

Sanskrit, Yoga, and Awakening the Divine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

1. Raised Catholic, the author discovered yoga and meditation in college and became an active member of the yoga organization, Ananda Marga.
2. Almost becoming a saṃnyasi, a yogic monk, he did not in the end take monastic vows.
3. He's long been engaged in a lifelong study of the world's contemplative traditions, astonished at the similarities in the writings, thought, and experiences of fourteenth-century German Meister Eckhart and the Buddha, or the anonymous authors of the Upanishads and the anonymous author of the Cloud of Unknowing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Monkfish Book Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781958972830
• Artikelnr.: 72356965

Autorenporträt

Longtime yoga and meditation teacher Michael David Sowder is an author, poet, and professor of poetry, religious studies, and yoga studies at Utah State University. With a PhD from the University of Michigan, Sowder is the author of two collections of spiritual poetry, The Empty Boat and House Under the Moon, and two chapbooks of poetry. Feminist poet Diane Wakoski chose The Empty Boat to win the 2004 T.S. Eliot Award. His chapbook, A Calendar of Crows, won the inaugural New Michigan Press Poetry award.

Sowder's writing explores themes of yoga, Buddhism, mystical experience and contemplative practice, wilderness, and fatherhood. He has appeared in MuseIndia, The Bombay Review, Shambhala Sun (now Lion's Roar), American Life in Poetry, Five Points, Green Mountains Review, Sufi Journal, New Poets of the American West, and The New York Times Online. He frequently travels to India, where in 2014, he was a Fulbright Scholar. Trained in a Tantric yoga tradition, he has been practicing and teaching yoga and meditation for almost fifty years. The founder of the non-profit, Amrita Yoga Institute of Logan, Utahwhich teaches yoga, meditation, contemplative practice and philosophyhe founded the first prison meditation program in the Alabama prison system in 1978, as well as prison writing and meditation programs at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Facility and at the Cache County Jail in Logan, Utah.