{"product_id":"waryoga-9781736293720","title":"WarYoga","description":"In the East resides one of the last living Indo-European spiritual traditions. Unbroken by the Abrahamic conversion that swept through the West and largely unaltered over thousands of years, Hinduism, the remnant of Vedic religion, currently has almost a billion followers in India alone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike their Indo-European Greek and Persian cousins, the Indians have a rich wrestling tradition going far back into history. Its present-day form known as kushti was adapted from earlier styles, some of which arrived with the Aryan Invasion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKushti wrestling and its conditioning exercises, a practice dedicated to the god Hanuman, could be called a sort of violent yoga. Its akharas are still filled with faithful adherents who grapple in sacred pits, swing weighted clubs, and lift heavy stones as part of their training. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to being an authority on Greek mythology, \u003ci\u003eUndying Glory\u003c\/i\u003e author Tom Billinge also has a background in Vedic religion. This has lead him to become the standard-bearer for a uniquely Western continuation of the Indo-European holy warrior tradition known as \u003cb\u003eWarYoga\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWarYoga\u003c\/b\u003e merges old-world Indian athletic training with ancient Tantric principles rooted in the Vedas. This deeply esoteric, yet accessible program recreates a prehistoric system of Indo-European physical alchemy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecently returned from his second pilgrimage to India as a WarYogin, Billinge has brought back a work expounding this living tradition rooted in physico-spiritual transmutation. With its final pages written in the hotels of India between forays into akharas across the country, the essence of \u003cb\u003eWarYoga\u003c\/b\u003e has been distilled in book form.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sanctus Europa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497261764882,"sku":"9781736293720","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14114b6c-2e97-49c9-a65f-244159fe0472.jpg?v=1730709537","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/waryoga-9781736293720","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}