Final Surrender: The Untold Glory of Śavāsana: 1

The most important pose in yoga. The one that makes everything else land. The one almost everyone skips.Every yoga class ends the same way - lying in ¿av¿sana, corpse pose, the practice of yoga nidr¿, or "yogic sleep." Most practitioners give it five minutes before rolling up the mat and heading home. Almost none of them know what they just walked away from.The yogis of ancient India understood ¿av¿sana as the most profound of all ¿sanas - the hardest to master, and the only one that blossoms the crown chakra. Far from a simple rest or "final relaxation," it is the very essence of häha yoga: the art of conscious relaxation that underlies every other pose and opens the door to self-knowledge.In a marketplace crowded with fitness routines and self-appointed experts Final Surrender returns to the source. Darin Somma, Yogeshwar draws on more than thirty years of lineage-based practice, the sacred mythology of the Vedic tradition, and the living teachings of Her Holiness Amma ¿r¿ Karu¿¿may¿ to reveal what ¿av¿sana really is - and what becomes possible when you learn to practice it fully.You will discover:Why the ancient yogis considered ¿¿v¿sana the supreme ¿sanaWhat is actually happening in the body, the breath, and the subtle anatomy during corpse poseThe relationship between surrender, the crown chakra, and spiritual evolutionWhether you are new to yoga or have practiced for decades Final Surrender will permanently transform your understanding of what you are doing on the mat - and why.