Devoted much of the evening to devouring William J. Broad's soon-to-be-released book, The Science of Yoga. Not many candle-burning, page-turning yoga books out there, but this is definitely one of them. Tough book to put down. There's something uniquely special about…
Category: yoga history
Yoga Makaranda by Sri T. Krishnamacharya
As I've recently been learning more about the modern patriarch of yoga, Sri T. Krishnamcharya, I decided to dive into the Internet to see if I could track down translations of his longer writings, such as the Yoga Makaranda, Yoga…
Check out the updated “overly brief and incomplete history of yoga” flowchart
Happy to share the latest version of this yoga lineage flowchart from Alison Hinks. Have fun comparing with the previous version of the chart.
Weekend Video: Sita Sings the Blues
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully…
B.K.S. Iyengar Visits America…
...as chronicled in LIFE Magazine in 1956. Find out more about B.K.S. Iyengar's remarkable life at his official B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga website or at the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States website. Yoga is an art, a science…
Weekend Yoga Video: Maybe Someday
WOW! I also just came across Yogacards.com, an interesting site where you can print off yoga posture cards that can be used during practice for creative sequencing. Looks fairly useful, especially since it's free.
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