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Stephen Cope



Stephen Cope is an American psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and author of several books on yoga and meditation. He is the founder of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living. Central to his teachings is the power of deep human connection and integration of mind, body, and spirit.

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Stephen Cope: Soul Friends

Kripalu Scholar-in-Residence Stephen Cope explains how our deepest friendships help create who we are.

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Stephen Cope
2018
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The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

Stephen Cope unlocks the teachings of the Yogasutra by showing them at work in the lives of a group of friends and fellow yoga students who are confronting the full modern catastrophe of careers, relationships, and dysfunctional family dynamics.

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Stephen Cope
2007
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Finding Your True Calling and Why It Matter More Now Then Ever with Stephen Cope

The most influential thinkers, writers, and teachers on the current American yoga scene shares with us his decades of wisdom.

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Stephen Cope
2020
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FindCenter Quotes ImageEvery man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

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6 Friends You Need in Your Life

Our relationships create who we are and who we’re becoming. So in this way, I was interested in thinking about how friendships transform us.

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Carolee Belkin Walker
2017
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How to Find Your True Calling with Stephen Cope

Tami interviews Stephen Cope and they discuss the wisdom found in the Bhagavad Gita and the many ways this ancient parable can be applied to modern life.

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Stephen Cope
2018
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If You Don't Have These 6 Types of Relationships, You’re Definitely Not Living Your Best Life

Could you easily name the 10 people who have been most influential in your life? The handful of people who have helped to determine who you have become? The very people with whom you have felt most vitally connected over the course of your lifetime?

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Stephen Cope
2017
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FindCenter Quotes ImageI understood that the attachment to myself and my image was actually taking me away from my self, away from this wonderful opportunity to just sit, just breathe, just feel the warm animal of my body . . .

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Seeing Eye to Eye: Comparing Yoga + Buddhist Traditions

When it comes to practicing mindfulness, the yoga and Buddhist traditions have much in common.

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Stephen Cope
2017
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YJ Interview: A Life Less Ordinary with Stephen Cope

Stephen Cope, director of Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living, hopes to illuminate yoga’s gifts.

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Diane Anderson
2017
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