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Yoga Yoga Founder Releases Instructional Book about Gong Yoga
Gong Yoga: Healing and Enlightenment through Sound is a comprehensive guide to the gong.

Austin, Texas - (July 1, 2008) Gong Yoga: Healing and Enlightenment through Sound is a comprehensive book about practicing and teaching yoga with the sound of the gong. Written by long-time yoga practitioner, teacher, and yoga teacher trainer Mehtab Benton, this recent release covers the origin, history and use of the gong for yoga and meditation, as well as its current therapeutic applications for healing and transformation. Benton is the founder of the Yoga Yoga studios in Austin, Texas, where he has taught Yoga of Sound classes for over 10 years.

The book contains a step-by-step training guide to teach readers how to play the gong through a series of practice sessions. Also included is information on how to structure yoga classes and individual practices using the gong, as well as how to develop gong yoga therapy sessions for students and professional clients. A special chapter on Kundalini Yoga and the Gong explains the use of specific mantras and meditations, along with information on the chakras, the major energy channels of the body, and the five sheaths of existence (the koshas), that are key to understanding how the gong integrates with the practice of yoga. The final chapter provides detailed information on how to select and care for a gong.

A three-time presenter at the Southwest Yoga Conference and a recipient of the International Kundalini Yoga Teacher's Association "Building Communities in Yoga" award in 2000, Mehtab Benton has taught Kundalini Yoga workshops and classes to students and teachers from around the world at the annual Kundalini Yoga Summer Solstice gathering in New Mexico. He is the author of 11 books and over 100 articles on yoga, heath, diet and nutrition.

To purchase a copy of the book Gong Yoga: Healing and Enlightenment through Sound, click here to visit Yoga Yoga's online store. For information on Gong Yoga and Kundalini Yoga workshops and trainings with Mehtab Benton, visit www.gongyoga.com. For information about Yoga Yoga, visit www.yogayoga.com.

About Mehtab Benton
Mehtab Benton, a Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer and an Experienced 500-Hour Registered Yoga (ERYT-500) teacher, is the author of 11 books and over 100 articles on yoga, heath, diet and nutrition. A three-time presenter at the Southwest Yoga Conference and a recipient of the International Kundalini Yoga Teacher's Association "Building Communities in Yoga" award in 2000, Benton and his wife Guru Karam are the founding partners of the Yoga Yoga studios in Austin, Texas. Benton completed a Kundalini Yoga teacher-training program in 1974 at the Hargobind Ashram in San Rafael, California where he taught Kundalini Yoga in public schools and drug rehabilitation programs. He is President of the Yoga Care Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports research, education, and community outreach around the benefits and practice of yoga, and is a past board member for the 3HO Foundation, which is dedicated to spreading teachings of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Benton has an educational background in psychology with advanced training in Integrative Yoga Therapy. For additional information about Mehtab Benton, visit www.gongyoga.com For additional information about Yoga Yoga, visit www.yogayoga.com.

About Yoga Yoga, LLC Yoga Yoga is Austin's premier source for yoga with four locations and over 350 classes weekly. With more than 90 registered yoga teachers, Yoga Yoga provides a wide variety of yoga styles for new and continuing students, including prenatal, postnatal, and children's yoga. Yoga Yoga Teacher Training offers a nationally recognized program with 200 and 500-hour courses approved by the Yoga Alliance. For more information, contact Yoga Yoga at (512) 358-1200 or visit www.yogayoga.com.
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