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Title: The Yoga of Work

Subtitle: Strategies for Right Livelihood from the Worlds Wisdom Traditions

Author: Rick Jarow

Narrator: Rick Jarow

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-14

Publisher: Sounds True

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration

Publisher's Summary:

Although millions of Americans consider themselves relatively prosperous, many are trapped in a poverty that crosses all boundaries of gender, race, age, and income. This poverty has nothing to do with money, teaches Rick Jarow - and everything to do with why you are here in the world. On The Yoga of Work, Dr. Jarow throws into focus a cultural irony that reaches into every office building and business in America: we have confused career with purpose, money with success, and where we work with where we belong. An authority on world religions and founder of the national anticareer workshops, Dr. Jarow asks the hard questions about work that we all need to answer: Am I afraid to quit my job? Is it my true calling, or just a way to pay the bills? Am I really seeking work, or is there something else missing from my life? Looking to eight other cultures, beginning with India where he spent many years living and studying, Dr. Jarow teaches a process for finding work that is an authentic personal expression and contribution to the world. With special meditations, he leads us outside our narrow cultural perspective to explore and learn teachings about work and spirit from Native America, China, Africa, and other regions of the world. By discarding limiting concepts of one culture over another, we open to the authentic work we are supposed to do and where we are supposed to do it. With this destination comes the inner freedom that is the true heart of right livelihood. The Yoga of Work is a welcome presentation from the one authority who really understands what is right - and what is wrong - about the way we seek the work we do in America today.

Members Reviews:

Great stuff - Even more relevant today

Although this was published in 2000 when the economy and job markets were profoundly different, I think the Yoga Of Work (and Jarow'sThe Ultimate Anti-Career Guide) is more relevant today (2013).

The term "yoga" can be translated as "join" or "yoke" with the divine, but that should not be taken too literally. There is a LOT of room between "wage slave" and "bodhisattva". Jarrow cites the Zen Buddhist notion "before enlightenment, there is 'chop wood, carry water'. After enlightenment there is 'chop wood, carry water'. He follows by saying "this (program) is about the 'chop wood, carry water' part."

If your experience of 'work' is really not meeting your needs or expectations, if you aspire to interesting, meaningful work or more balanced working relationships, the Yoga of Work offers six "vocational visions" from eastern cultures (for inspiration), three meditations (for self-inquiry) and five methods (eastern and western) for self-evaluation. There is also significant attention paid to working relationships and "relatedness".

Whether you have a background or interest in eastern traditions or not, the focus is always on 'work'. Some concepts are esoteric, but Rick Jarow translates them readily into plain, secular language.

The result is inspiring and potentially transformational for anyone who is sufficiently open and motivated to change.