Yoga for Pets
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That there is a book that only you can write has been one of my favorite truisms since the writing and reading of manuscripts became my field. That there is a book that only Jean Farrar could have written has been my conviction ever since she mentioned the title: YOGA FOR PETS.
As long as I have known Jean she has been a Yoga adept in depth. Along with this interest, the study of pets and their inter-relationship with human life has been a mandate of the heart. It is the felicity of her synthesizing of both subjects that makes her book so intriguing and unique.
In these days of highly competitive writing and publishing, there is special emphasis on “categories.” What audience does your book appeal to? To whom out there is the marketing of your book directed? What slot is it in? From crime to violence, to insiders, outsiders, and kiss-and-tell, what is your category?
Obviously, there has always been a pet category, for pets are little people helping people to be happier and better people. Even Biblical Job in the Land of Oz, in his darkest hour when friends had forsaken him, came up with a most sagacious self-help. “Listen to the animals,” he told himself, “and they shall teach thee.”
No doubt about it, whether in the world of wildlife or the wild world of domesticated living, animals have always had an established category in the trade. But YOGA for pets and animals, that is categorically another story! And Jean Farrar is another type of author, an entrepreneur who asks big questions and answers them out of an adventurous association with the populace of the animal kingdom. She has listened not only to domesticates, but to the wildlings of field and stream and ocean habitats. She has listened to the animals and they have listened to her. So have pet owners because of her insight into the universal psyche that permeates the Animalia Familia and which is as responsive in a dolphin or a Benji as in you and me.
That is why this book creates a new category.
Precisely forty years ago, I had
the opportunity and the commitment to introduce a young and talented Yogi to
college students and public audiences across the
What I mentioned in my Introduction to that book was not merely prophetic; it foreshadowed the category into which YOGA FOR PETS is now reserved a special place:
Western interest in Yoga is increasing at an amazing rate. What was talked about in whispers years ago is now openly broadcast across our land. What was ridiculed as a bizarre fad is today recognized as a basic skill, and many who looked upon it as a stunt have now embraced it as a way of life. Yoga has come into its own.
The reason for this is clear. We are being compelled to save ourselves from personal deterioration and mental frustration, and among the most valuable aids in this encounter is the Yogic art. Through Yoga we are alerted to the need for disciplines which have a scientific rather than mere dogmatic basis. Here we are confronted by techniques based on truths as old as the ancient East and as new and as universal as our growing awareness of cosmic law.
The old masters were ahead of us in their search for truth, but today we are with them on the path. Everything we are learning about the inner person and outer space fits into the Yogic system.
Including pets!
Out of this same secret lore of the past, Jean Farrar has drawn together the philosophy of East and West to integrate the individual life and achieve a basic harmony with our environmental world. Her insights are now your privilege and opportunity to enjoy without my intrusion, only to re-emphasize: here is a new category, and in the making of it, YOGA FOR PETS enchantingly becomes by the nature of its being, YOGA FOR YOU.
Marcus Bach, Ph.D.
Palos Verdes Estates,
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About the Book
It was while assisting her mentor, Bernarr Macfadden, as his protégée in her late teens, that Jean Farrar first became acquainted with Yoga through contact with the many swamis and teachers (such as Paramhansa Yogananda), who were
Macfadden’s frequent guests at his several health spas. The opportunity to work with dozens of celebrities as diverse as Jimmy Durante and Albert Einstein stood
Jean in good stead after Macfadden’s death, for a number of them continued as her
students and friends when she opened her own ashram at the old Desert Inn in
being chosen as Miss Palm Springs and the Western Week and Desert Circus Queen further enlarged her acquaintance with many other personages as dissimilar as Groucho Marx, Elvis Presley and Howard Hughes.
On a less glamorous scale, but one of solid achievement, she has also taught
Yoga for the City of Palm Springs, the Coachella Valley Recreation Department, the Palm Springs High School, the College of the Desert, the Braille Institute, the Handicapped and Mentally Retarded Foundation of the Desert, and for the Los Angeles Angels baseball team during their spring training in Palm Springs.
She has appeared on many television talks
shows and had her own radio program for three years. She has been a lecturer
and private instructor
for the Betty Ford Alcoholics Awareness Program and the Drug
Abuse Program at
Yogini
Jean’s lifelong interest in and experience with pets, and how she adapted Yoga
for their use, is described throughout this book. She is presently at work on
her next offering, which will relate a number of humorous vignettes about some
of the international celebrities who have been her students and friends. She is also preparing a video
cassette showing her Aqua-Yoga method for weight control, which she introduced
on the Pritikin Program in
About the Author
It was while assisting her mentor, Bernarr Macfadden, as his protégée in her late teens, that Jean Farrar first became acquainted with Yoga through contact with the many swamis and teachers (such as Paramhansa Yogananda), who were
Macfadden’s frequent guests at his several health spas. The opportunity to work with dozens of celebrities as diverse as Jimmy Durante and Albert Einstein stood
Jean in good stead after Macfadden’s death, for a number of them continued as her
students and friends when she opened her own ashram at the old Desert Inn in
being chosen as Miss Palm Springs and the Western Week and Desert Circus Queen further enlarged her acquaintance with many other personages as dissimilar as Groucho Marx, Elvis Presley and Howard Hughes.
On a less glamorous scale, but one of solid achievement, she has also taught
Yoga for the City of Palm Springs, the Coachella Valley Recreation Department, the Palm Springs High School, the College of the Desert, the Braille Institute, the Handicapped and Mentally Retarded Foundation of the Desert, and for the Los Angeles Angels baseball team during their spring training in Palm Springs.
She has appeared on many television talks
shows and had her own radio program for three years. She has been a lecturer
and private instructor
for the Betty Ford Alcoholics Awareness Program and the Drug
Abuse Program at
Yogini
Jean’s lifelong interest in and experience with pets, and how she adapted Yoga
for their use, is described throughout this book. She is presently at work on
her next offering, which will relate a number of humorous vignettes about some
of the international celebrities who have been her students and friends. She is also preparing a video
cassette showing her Aqua-Yoga method for weight control, which she introduced
on the Pritikin Program in