Practice Off the Mat: Living as a Yogi After You Roll Up the Mat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798187027279)

On the mat, it works. You move through the asanas and the body quiets. You breathe, and the breath settles. You lie down in savasana, and the world stops. For that moment, you are a yogi.

But the moment you roll up the mat and step out the studio door? Your phone pulls you under in thirty seconds. At the office you're angry, at home you're irritable, and online you shrink to nothing.

Practice Off the Mat is one person's record of crossing that gap. Robin Oh began his thirties with a divorce, then moved through business failures, debt, bankruptcy, and his mother's Alzheimer's - and somewhere in the middle of it all, he met the Yoga Sutras. Two years on Jeju Island, an RYT-500 in Rishikesh. But the real change didn't come from theory. It came from practice lived out, off the mat, in the friction of ordinary days.

This book walks through yoga's eight limbs - yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, samadhi - in the plain language of daily life. How to live ahimsa in a meeting room. Satya behind the hollow "I'm fine." Aparigraha standing in front of an overfull closet. Not as a teacher with answers, but as a fellow practitioner who has crossed over first and turns back to ask: how are you, really?

You won't find a guru here telling you how to live. You'll find a companion - and the quiet conviction that you are your own teacher.

Your whole life is the mat. The only thing you need to step onto it is to stay awake.

Author: Robin Oh
ISBN-13: 9798187027279
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2026
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.28d