Yoga Aesthetics: Quest for the Creative Interface

YOGA AESTHETICS explores an ancient idea about the creative interface between consciousness and physical reality. It is the basis of India's yogic practices, preserved over time through the arts. After 5000 years, it remains available to us through the image of the Nataraj (cover image). Today, inquiries about the interface between consciousness and physical reality are at the heart of serious scientific debates. Part memoir and part exploration across disciplines, Yoga Aesthetics: Quest for the Creative Interface combines Maxwell's intimate knowledge of an art form with resonating ideas from science to offer us an ultra-fresh perspective on our identity as creators of experience.

JULIA MAXWELL is a dancer, entrepreneur, and author. As a young woman, she co-founded Chhandam/Chitresh Das Dance Company, a nonprofit international arts organization featuring kathak dance. Following a 20-year performing career and a Master's in Dance from Stanford University, she brought her knowledge of aesthetics from the dance stage to the yoga studio where she developed yoga aesthetics (yogaaesthetics.com). Julia is also the author of The Jewel & Filigree, a compelling memoir that penetrates the intimate complexities of mixing cultures through the ideas that have shaped them.