“Ignite Your Yoga is a comprehensive guide for anyone wanting to live a life of purpose and meaning. Susanna skillfully offers us a way to understand and practice yoga in a holistic, transformative, and respectful way. She connects the dots between yoga philosophy and modern life and invites us to reflect on how a commitment to our own spirituality must be connected to how we lead, teach, parent, and show up in relationships. She is a gifted and clear writer. If you are needing to reconnect to meaning and purpose, or want to deepen your practice or teaching of yoga, this book is for you.”
—Hala Khouri, author of Practicing Liberation
“Ignite Your Yoga stands is a crucial contribution to the global yoga community, offering a fresh perspective on what it means to live and embody the practice. In a world where yoga can sometimes be reduced to mere physical postures, Susanna reclaims its spiritual heritage, grounding the practice in the principles of social justice, self-awareness, and personal transformation. This book is not simply a guide or a manual—it’s a call to stewardship, inviting practitioners to engage deeply with yoga’s roots through sincere study, practice, and contemplation.”
—Kino MacGregor, author of Accessible Ashtanga
“Ignite Your Yoga is a passionate examination of the continuity of yoga from its roots to its contemporary expression. It is a skillful and rich blend of teachings that will no doubt inspire its readers to be a force for positive change on and off the mat.”
—Tias Little, author of Yoga of the Subtle Body
“A bridge between tradition and modern yoga. Ignite Your Yoga is a tender invitation to return to the heart of practice. With wisdom and care, Susanna Barkataki gently guides you to honor the sacred roots of this ancient practice, while empowering you to live its teachings in your modern life. Each chapter is a meditation on connection, integrity, and inclusivity, inviting you to cultivate a practice that is both deeply personal and profoundly universal. For those who seek to embody yoga’s truest essence, this book will be your steady, compassionate companion on the journey.”
—Elena Brower, author of Practice You
“In Ignite Your Yoga, Susanna offers illumination and direction on building a yoga practice that is true and honest to yourself and to the ancient practice. She invites each reader to consider best practices and to reflect on how appropriation and misguided teachings have shaped what is known about yoga today. I am so grateful for her relentless leadership and guidance in the conversation on reclaiming yoga’s roots.”
—Tejal Patel, Tejal Yoga
"Ignite Your Yoga is a heartfelt guide that seamlessly weaves tradition and modernity, inspiring a deeper commitment to yoga as a path of personal and collective transformation.”
—Acharya Shunya, author of Sovereign Self
“Susanna is the yoga leader we all need in our modern times. In Ignite your Yoga, she guides us back to the beating heart of yoga, its principles, and how we can apply them to our work, leadership, home, and activism. With embodied wisdom, she shares the true diversity and beauty of what yoga can bring to our lives. This book is a must-read for those seeking to walk and share the yogic path with right-relationship, honor, and devotion to this radiant tradition.”
—Ann Nguyen, Embodiment Mentor
“This book is an invitation to step into the deeper layers of yoga, where personal growth meets collective healing. Susanna beautifully weaves together ancient wisdom and modern insight, helping you connect with yoga’s true roots while making space for your own unique journey. Whether you’re new to yoga or have been on the mat for years, Ignite Your Yoga is required reading for all who seek to show up with heart, integrity, and authenticity."
—Ally Maz, author of Girlvana
“Ignite Your Yoga is an invitation to return to the sacred and the beauty that is yoga. Susanna Barkataki welcomes practitioners of all cultures and backgrounds to engage in right relationship with this practice and ultimately, with humanity. A brilliant gift for those called to the yogic journey.”
—Asha Frost, author of You Are the Medicine
“Ignite indeed. What a gift to be reminded that we all as practitioners are responsible for caring for yoga and its future, and that our participation, whether grand or mundane, contributes to how yoga exists. Susanna’ expertly empowers readers around topics like reparations and cultural appropriation while providing tools for us each to live our yoga to our greatest ability.”
—Ava Taylor, Your Yoga Business
“This book is an act of fierce love and advocacy, and it couldn’t be more urgent. Susanna is a deeply knowledgeable and inspiring guide, building on the work of generations of yoga practitioners who have used yogic philosophy to better their lives and communities. A much-needed addition to the discourse on yoga.”
—Charlotte Nguyen, activist, teacher, and founder of Get Free!
“Honoring yoga’s roots, embracing the present. Yoga is more than just practice—it's a deep, transformative way of living. In Ignite Your Yoga, Susanna Barkataki beautifully bridges ancient wisdom with the realities of today, offering a guide that is both meaningful and grounded. This book invites you to practice with deep reverence, honoring tradition while embodying integrity. It’s a call to move through life with intention, creating ripples of healing and positive change, within yourself and the world around you.”
—Faith Hunter, author of Spiritually Fly
“A must read!”
—Jessamyn Stanley, author of Every Body Yoga
“An in depth and clear exploration of the essence of that it means to practice yoga as support for oneself while in service to others. Ignite Your Yoga dives into the heart of the ancient yet living tradition, carrying that joy out into the world. Uplifting and empowering.”
—Mary Taylor and Richard Freeman, authors of Feeling Happy
“Ignite Your Yoga is a must-have guide for practitioners and teachers who seek to deeply understand, honor, and embody the true essence of yoga with knowledge and reverence. Susanna Barkataki expertly blends practical tools with profound spiritual wisdom, empowering readers to integrate yogic values into all aspects of life with authenticity, accountability, and respect.
Confronting contemporary challenges like leadership, equity, and ethics, this indispensable guide offers actionable insights for living and teaching in alignment with yoga’s true traditions and authentic roots. For anyone committed to practicing and teaching with integrity, Ignite Your Yoga is an essential addition to your journey.”
—Seane Corn, author of Revolution of the Soul
“Susanna brings the deep roots, key principles, and ethics of yoga to ‘the West’ in an accessible, digestible format that is both actionable and immediately impactful. This book is a gift for all who are ready to learn from an authentic source how yoga can improve not only your daily life but can deepen your life purpose and contribute to collective healing. Everyone who cares about personal and collective well-being and peace should read this book.”
—Emily Anne Brant, Indigenous Wisdom Keeper
“I’m so happy Susanna Barkataki has written this book for the world! Her vision, emphasizing the impact of yoga on our lives and mental health, is so timely. Even better, she dares to be authentic about the tradition and practice of yoga. The teachings she’s kind enough to broach allow every single one of us to learn AT LEAST one new thing about ourselves through the power of yoga.”
—Mychal Threets, Mychal the Librarian
“Ignite your Yoga book serves as a guide for these times. She provides us with practices that can help spiritually root us and guide us back to each other, to our bodies, and to restoring harmony and balance. And she does all this while honoring the lineage of yoga and without spiritually bypassing the oppressive systems we live in. In essence, she gifts us a guide for embodying true spirituality to hold us as we navigate this current paradigm and birth the new one.”
—Dr. Rocio Rosales Meza, Seer and Medicine Woman
“A must read book for yogis who are looking to deepen and embody their practice with appreciation, not appropriation. An important book for these times, I can’t recommend it enough.”
—Rebecca Campbell, author of Your Soul Had a Dream, Your Life Is It
“Ignite Your Yoga should be in every modern Western yoga practitioner’s hands; indeed, it’s one I wish I had when I was starting my own practice. Barkataki’s voice is gentle and compassionate, even as it gives us the critical challenge of taking our yoga practice beyond mere fitness and self-help, and returning it to its rightful roots: tradition, ethics, and a unified self-world sense. I am confident that this book will not only “ignite” more powerful yoga practices, but also more peace, kindness and collective action across the world.”
—Simone Seol, Founder of Home
