‘Pure Yoga’ combines the female beauty ideal with the philosophy of yoga. The renowned yoga expert Inge Schöps assigns seventeen mind topics to the 58 yoga poses: e.g. to be free, to feel your inner stability, to be purposeful and sensual, to love and be compassionate or attentive in the here and now. In a unique way and manner, discerning and qualitative yoga art photography by star photographer Peter Hegre, illustrates the purity of yoga. Each chapter offers a deeper explanation of the yoga philosophy and is, together with the philosophical words of wisdom from the yoga classics, an inspiration for Westerners for a more conscious and happy life.
Peter Hegre, born in 1969, is a famous Norwegian photographer and director. He studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara/USA. From 1991, he assisted Richard Avedon, the most renowned photographer of the 20th century, in New York. Hegre became famous through his risqué, technically demanding, puristic nude photos, which aim for simplicity and clarity. Together with his wife, the model Luba Shumeyko, he publishes the magazine ‘New Nude’. Luba, who also works as a yoga teacher, also posed as a model for ‘Pure Yoga’.
Inge Schöps is a certified yoga teacher, book author and mental coach from Cologne. She founded the yoga community ‘Yoga-On’ and offers yoga in combination with coachings, workshops and retreats. Her book, ‘Yoga: The complete Practice Book for Beginners and Advanced’ became a bestseller and was translated into several languages. Before turning to yoga, the qualified translator and MBA graduate worked in various management positions for internationally orientated publishers.
Writer Inge Schöps is a qualified yoga teacher and mental coach from Cologne. She is founder of the yoga community known as Yoga-On and now offers yoga in connection with coaching sessions, workshops and retreats. Her book ‘Yoga: Das große Praxisbuch für Einsteiger und Fortgeschrittene’, her practice book for beginners and the more advanced, became a best-seller and has already been translated into a number of other languages. Before she came to yoga she was a qualified translator, with an MBA to boot, who held senior positions at publishing houses of international renown.
