Spirit of the Dancing Warrior: Asian Wisdom for Peak Performance in Athletics and Life

by Jerry Lynch;Chungliang Al Huang, Chungliang Al Huang

"Warriorship is a journey from ordinary to extraordinary." By opening your heart to the special connection between physical and the spiritual whether in the gym, on the field, practicing tai chi, or riding your bike, Spirit of the Dancing Warrior shows you how to expand and improve your experience and performance — and your relationship with all physical activity. Using a meditation program based on 52 warrior virtues, this book presents a program of everyday spiritual training, a soulful path of wisdom, inspiration, and motivation for athletics, fitness, and life. Coauthors Dr. Jerry Lynch and Chungliang Al Huang share a life-long passion for helping others discover the warrior's path of living a fully engaged life. They also share an understanding that athletics and fitness can serve as vehicles to transport us to a more sacred space. Together, they have written Spirit of the Dancing Warrior to assist you on this path, filling it with information on practical spirituality and how to use it to achieve peak capacity in all your physical work and play. Lynch and Huang have co-authored five other popular and best-selling books on the marriage of eastern wisdom and peak performance, including The Way of the Champion and, Thinking Body, Dancing Mind .

Genres: Fitness

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2010

Reviews

[Michael Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lynch provides four unique sections of the text where he provides different words and what they mean in the Tao philosophy and how they tie to Sports. The sections are, The Intention, Preparation, Integration and Transformation. In each, he provides the reader a subset of words defined in the thoughts of Tao (How) and their relationship to the Western world. Each section provides the reader with taskings to make one sit, evaluate and think on meaning and impact to ones life. The book is not a pick up and read text. It's a guide to help develop sound thinking and logic to develop and growth ones self.