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25/06/2024

We noticed that Deborah Adele Author posted an article that we all need to read. She says, "This tendency to only see what we know how to see most often produces a defensive stance when our beliefs are challenged. When we truly see how deeply this pattern sits in us, it becomes understandable how our country has become polarized to the extent of extreme incivility. Our beliefs feel that personal to us. How do we learn to separate reality from our own beliefs and perspectives, discomforts and judgements, needs and idealism, and our reactions and defensiveness?" Read more here: https://deborahadele.com/sit-down-next-to/

I recently received an email from a self-proclaimed “fan” of my two books.  She told me she loved the yamas and niyamas and was enjoying the kleshas, that is until I mentioned Ruth Bader Ginsb…

05/02/2024

I've been having some fun doing a cover photoshoot to show Deborah Adele Author's two books side by side. Look at the incredible use each book has had. My personal copies show 15 years of reading, note taking, teaching, and sharing for The Yamas & Niyamas. And after just one reading group /book club with Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute, my copy of The Kleshas is showing the love too. I've included a contrast-compare pic of the books: new vs. well-loved. What does your copy look like?

04/09/2023

We are honored that Deborah Adele Author’s new book, The Kleshas, has been featured in Integral Yoga’s magazine-newsletter:

The kleshas are Yoga’s framework for understanding the discord between our desires and our lived experience. Deborah Adele’s new book, The Kleshas: Exploring the Elusiveness of Happiness, lays open the insight and wisdom of the sage Patanjali, as described in the Yoga Sutras, in relatable, moder...

01/09/2023

Today is the day! Deborah Adele’s new book, The Kleshas, is officially released! You can order via your local bookstore, yoga studio, or on Amazon.

16/08/2023

It is incredibly gratifying when a book you've been working on debuts at #1 on Amazon before it is even officially released! Congratulations, Deborah Adele Author!

09/08/2023

With Deborah Adele Author - Deborah is signing books!

Deborah Adele signs her new book, The Kleshas: Exploring the Elusiveness of Happiness. For more information about the book, visit the publisher's website: ht...

07/08/2023

Deborah shares her story of writing the Kleshas book, including how taking a bad fall on the Superior Hiking Trail, which resulted in surgery and a cast on her arm, was actually a gift. As she asked herself questions such as, "Where do my beliefs come from?" and "Can I let other people have their beliefs?" she realized that the Kleshas were keeping her mind in a cast. Her mind was as rigid in its belief system as the cast on her arm was. As her arm healed, and the writing of the book came along, she was able to practice her "Gap Time" reactions and examine where her own beliefs came from. In this book, Deborah invites us to examine our own beliefs, to develop our gap time, to still our minds, to become free from reacting to the Kleshas, and to become sourced from within.

Deborah shares her story of writing the Kleshas book, including how taking a bad fall on the Superior Hiking Trail, which resulted in surgery and a cast on h...

07/08/2023

When we are free from the Kleshas it doesn't mean that they stop existing. The Kleshas are always present. But what happens is that by working with Practice & Nonattachment, we become free from identifying with the roaming tendencies of the mind (free from the effects of the Kleshas). We become free from being dependent on external sources to make us happy. We develop "Gap Time" - the space to respond rather than react. We become sourced from within.

When we are free from the Kleshas it doesn't mean that they stop existing. The Kleshas are always present. But what happens is that by working with Practice...

07/08/2023

Practice asks us to focus and train our minds to find that innate stillness that the mind craves. Nonattachment asks us to dis-identify with the swirling tendencies of the Kleshas. We all long for wholeness, harmony, and completeness and Practice & Nonattachment are the Power that get us there.

To free our minds, Patanjali gives us the practice of "Practice and Nonattachment." Practice asks us to focus and train our minds to find that innate stillne...

31/07/2023

The Kleshas and The Mind!
Yoga is defined as, "Mastery over the roaming tendencies of the mind." What are roaming tendencies? Entanglement in the Kleshas, of course! Yoga believes that the innate state of the mind is tranquility. The feeling of having unruly thoughts, or a lack of focus is because our minds are swirling around the Kleshas. Thankfully, we can learn to still our minds and stop identifying with the Kleshas. The Mind is both entangled in the Kleshas, and the Platform that can free us from the Kleshas. Liberation from the Kleshas happens in the Mind.

Yoga is defined as, "Mastery over the roaming tendencies of the mind." What are roaming tendencies? Entanglement in the Kleshas, of course! Yoga believes tha...

31/07/2023

Final Thoughts on The Kleshas - - - AND - - - Introducing the Mind!
Once we've learned about the five Kleshas, and recognized the role they play in our lives, we might feel depressed or discouraged. But Deborah assures us that the Yogis have provided a path to freedom from the whims of the Kleshas. Knowing how we are entangled is the start of the path toward greater happiness, power of choice, power of discernment, and eventually, peace.

Once we've learned about the five Kleshas, and recognized the role they play in our lives, we might feel depressed or discouraged. But Deborah assures us tha...

27/07/2023

Abhinivesha has us afraid to live and afraid to die; we're afraid of change, but we want things to be different. Sounds depressing, but knowledge and awareness create freedom. Thankfully, Deborah Adele Author teaches us a path out of the Kleshas in her new book.

Abhinivesha, the fifth Klesha, translates as fear of death / loss / change. It's the final step to smallness along the Klesha path from Avidya to Asmita to R...

25/07/2023

Deborah Adele Author explains how Dvesha and Raga are a dynamic duo of diminishing ourselves into smaller and smaller selves and spaces. While Raga had us only doing things that make us feel good, Dvesha is even trickier, making us avoid things we don't like.

Dvesha, the fourth Klesha, is a dynamic duo with Raga. While Raga has us seeking to feel good, Dvesha has us seeking to avoid feeling bad. Dvesha accommodate...

15/07/2023

We're joined by Deborah Adele Author again as she explains Raga. Raga, the third Klesha, has us seeking to feel good. It can be thought of as our personal agenda for happiness. We all have our preferences - and there is nothing wrong with that! But when we find that we can only be happy when things "go our way," we have made ourselves small. We have limited ourselves in our experiencing and enjoying life.

Raga, the third Klesha, has us seeking to feel good. It can be thought of as our personal agenda for happiness. We all have our preferences - and there is no...

10/07/2023

Hi Folks - Here's Klesha #2: Asmita (video 4 of 12). Asmita is how we define ourselves and all the roles we've absorbed through family and cultural expectations. Deborah Adele Author explains how Asmita has us doing the "should's" of our life instead of finding and following the "love's" of our life.

Asmita, the second Klesha, has us giving definition to who we think we are. Asmita helps us have a sense of identity but it also limits us by making us think...

06/07/2023

Klesha video 3 of 12 with Deborah Adele Author. In this video Deborah describes the first Klesha, Avidya, a fundamental misunderstanding of who we really are.

Avidya, the first Klesha, is defined as a fundamental misunderstanding of who we are (not knowing who we really are). We are born into a culture, a community...

29/06/2023

Klesha video 2 of 12 with Deborah Adele Author. You can check the links in the description of the YouTube video for additional information and how to pre-order. The official book release date is September 1st, 2023.

Deborah Adele talks about how Yoga has given name to the process of seeking happiness, and the pitfalls affecting us all: the 5 Kleshas - which can mire us i...

26/06/2023

Book Reveal!!! New book by Deborah Adele Author coming out soon! Check out our YouTube series (more videos coming each week) and make sure to open the description below the video for more information and a link to pre-order.

Deborah Adele reveals her new book, The Kleshas: Exploring the Elusiveness of Happiness. Deborah shares how her previous book, The Yamas & Niyamas, led her t...

05/01/2023

We've added another foreign language edition of The Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice: Hungarian! This brings us up to 9 languages in print. This is a big deal for a small publisher. You can find this edition on the Hungarian publisher's website: https://ursuslibris.hu/konyv/jamak-es-nijamak
Congratulations to us, to Deborah Adele, and to Ursus Libris!

18/05/2022

Exciting news! The German language edition of The Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice has been released! This brings us up to 8 languages in print. You can find this edition on Amazon or directly from the German publisher, https://www.narayana-verlag.de/Yama-und-Niyama-Adele-Deborah/b25980.

07/04/2022

We are excited to announce a new foreign translation of The Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice. The Korean edition is out and it is beautiful! View all of the book's translations and find links at https://theyamasandniyamas.com.