Ian Spencer has practiced yoga and Christian faith for many years, and in this very readable book, he skilfully shows how the wisdom of both can be integrated to enrich both personal faith and daily living. A gentle guide full of practical wisdom for a wide range of contemporary spiritual seekers.

- Diarmuid O'Murchu, Christian missionary, international facilitator of Adult Faith Development, author of many books including,When the Disciple Comes of Age

In Take My Yoga, Ian Spencer reflects on his own personal yoga practice and shows how it has deepened his own Christian faith. In doing so, he beautifully explains yoga for the beginner and shows how its universal practice and ethos not only illuminate all religions but reveal a real sense of what it means to be human today.

- Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz, Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus and The Aramaic Jesus Book of Days 

I believe this book will be a useful guide for spiritual seekers. Many people who have struggled to see Christ in their hearts through the Church have found their spiritual road home through Eastern spiritual practice, especially Yoga. The author draws on his long work as a Christian priest and his knowledge of eastern spirituality to harmonise these into a coherent whole. As an experienced spiritual director and yoga teacher, he writes in an accessible, good humoured, down to earth style that will inspire readers to open up their own path. The writer guides Christians to deepen their relationship with Christ through Yoga and facilitates those who practice Yoga to discover a Christian meaning to its teaching in a simple, direct way.

- Dr John Ryder, Bede Griffiths Sangha, UK 

In this beautifully written and highly accessible book, Ian Spencer brings together his extensive experience as both an Anglican priest and also a yoga teacher, to show how the practice of yoga can enrich and deepen the practice of Christian discipleship. Devoid of unnecessary technical language, the relative brevity of this book should not be taken to belie its depth of wisdom. What comes across from every page is the wonderful way in which the author has clearly integrated in his own life - yoked together into one unified practice - two seemingly different traditions. As he suggests, though, the practice of yoga and the lived experience and teaching of Jesus are both orientated alike to the realisation of union - yoga. This slim volume deserves to be widely read and, above all, used. It could easily become the companion of a lifetime, inviting those who are already Christian to appreciate what the practice of yoga can give them, and those who might practise yoga as a form of exercise and yet who are looking for something more, to discover that the Christian path might be the very thing they are looking for. More than anything else, though, this book entices its readers to bring it to life through their lived experience. This is a book that could transform the lives of anyone into whose hands it falls. What a gift!

- The Revd Canon Dr Christopher Collingwood, Canon Emeritus of York Minster  

From the time that I first met Ian as Warden of Holland House, I was impressed with his commitment to practising spirituality rather than just simply understanding or believing something. This is an important book exploring how some of the ideas and practices of Yoga can inform the Christian tradition, and indeed vice versa. Through my discussions with Ian I have learnt a lot. I would recommend this book to both yoga practitioners and Christian seekers.

- David Charlton ,Yoga teacher Sadhana Mala, author of Embodying the Yoga Sutra