B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga: Wisdom & Practice

B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga: Wisdom & Practice
Author: B.K.S. Iyengar
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0756659531

This practical, inspiring anthology offers renowned Yogi B.K.S Iyengar's insights into yoga, life and the path to peace and happiness. Yoga practice lies at the heart of the book, and it is illustrated with over sixty new step-by-step sequences of yoga postures specially shot in India and accompanied by Iyengar's illuminating observations on technique, their significance, and their benefits. This book not only presents Iyengar's practical advice on how to perform key yoga postures, but also draws on a wide range of other material taken from interviews and world lecture tours, to the many texts Iyengar has written about yoga and about his own life's journey. Yoga Wisdom & Practice offers Yoga as it's meant to be practiced: Yoga for your contentment, for joy, for true inner peace, for life. Discover what yoga can do for your health, happiness and whole life. Yoga Wisdom & Practice offers a blend of wisdom both ancient and modern, and an all-embracing way to bring health, happiness and harmony to the way you live. Iyengar passes on the lessons of his own life experience, and shares the physical and spiritual rewards you can gain from an uplifting series of beautifully presented asanas, breathing exercises and meditations. This book provides practical yoga instruction and words of wisdom for health, happiness and a better world.

A History of Modern Yoga

A History of Modern Yoga
Author: Elizabeth De Michelis
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2005-12-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0826487726

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Gurus of Modern Yoga

Gurus of Modern Yoga
Author: Mark Singleton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199938725

Gurus of Modern Yoga explores the contributions that individual gurus have made to the formation of the practices and discourses of yoga in today's world.

The Truth of Yoga

The Truth of Yoga
Author: Daniel Simpson
Publisher: North Point Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0374722684

A succinct, approachable guide to the origins, development, key texts, concepts, and practices of yoga. Yoga is practiced by many millions of people worldwide and is celebrated for its mental, physical, and spiritual benefits. And yet, as Daniel Simpson reveals in The Truth of Yoga, much of what is said about yoga is misleading. For example, the word “yoga” does not always mean union. In fact, in perhaps the discipline’s most famous text—the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali—its aim is described as separation: isolating consciousness from everything else. And yoga is not five thousand years old, as is commonly claimed; the earliest evidence of practice dates back about twenty-five hundred years. (Yoga may well be older, but no one can prove it.) The Truth of Yoga is a clear, concise, and accessible handbook for the lay reader that draws upon abundant recent scholarship. It outlines these new findings with practitioners in mind, highlighting ways to keep traditions alive in the twenty-first century.

Iyengar Yoga the Integrated and Holistic Path to Health

Iyengar Yoga the Integrated and Holistic Path to Health
Author: Dr. Tommijean Thomas
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2008-11-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1462843654

Teaching and information topics include: a concise overview of the many aspects of yoga a vast amount of computer drawn illustrations and more than 500 photographs depicting the yoga postures a self-study guide to the yoga poses including seventy basic foundation postures with descriptions, techniques, and benefi ts in detail fi fteen original series (sequence/routines) of postures with different purposes and themes to carry the practitioner through a diverse personal practice fi ve variations of the well known aerobic Sun Salutations a discussion of how to perform and understand the physical postures, rhythmic controlled breathing, meditation, relaxation, postural alignment, stress management, and philosophy common questions typically asked by yoga students with related answers a brief treatise of beginning basics in anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology eight well-known and simple mantras (chants) an artful collection of photos demonstrating postures beyond beginning level is presented. This is a must-have book for yoga practitioners, teachers, studio owners, health providers, college classes, and business settings as it confi rms the benefi ts and effects of Iyengar-style yoga practice.

Iyengar

Iyengar
Author: Kofi Busia
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2007-07-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 083482454X

Well-known contributors from the world of yoga celebrate the life and work of the great yoga pioneer B. K. S. Iyengar in this collection. Iyengar, who celebrates seventy years as a yoga teacher this year, is an Indian yoga master, revered as the single most influential person in spreading the teachings of yoga throughout the world. Iyengar was recognized in Time magazine’s 2004 list of the one hundred most powerful and influential people in the world. This collection of essays, stories, and interviews celebrates the life and great influence of renowned yoga teacher B. K. S. Iyengar and features an international and diverse group of well-known contributors. These writings offer a deep understanding of the man, as well as his unique approach to yoga and the human mind and body. Contributors include: • Baron Baptiste • Beryl Bender Birch • T. K. V. Desikachar • Alan Finger • Lilias Folan • Richard Freeman • John Friend • Sharon Gannon • Dona Holleman • Gary Kraftsow • Judith Hanson Lasater • David Life • Manouso Manos • Chuck Miller • Aadil Palkhivala • Shiva Rea • Erich Schiffmann • John Schumacher • Patricia Walden • Joan White • Rodney Yee

Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 6

Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 6
Author: B.K.S. Iyengar
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2006-05-22
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 8177649760

This, the sixth volume of A.Y., continues to reveal the great wisdom housed in the treasure trove of the interviews of Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar. It provides education for the sadhaka to accomplish an inner transformation freeing him from sensual pleasures, and making him move towards the Soul, where untainted wisdom illuminates the practitioner from within purifying his actions. As you progress in your practice, the cloud of affications and obstavles in life interfree less and less. They disperse revealing the glory of the soul’s eternity.

Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 5

Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 5
Author: B.K.S. Iyengar
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2005-06-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 817764713X

This fifth volume of Astadala Yogamala contains a great treasure house of material compiled from interviews taken with Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar. Like an explorer, who enters a dark cave and penetrates its depth with a beam of light, the torchlight of each interview illumines a section of the cave revealing the Gem of Wisdom, lying in the depth of the ardent, unceasing and devoted sadhana of Sh. B.K.S. Iyengar.

The New Yoga for Healthy Aging

The New Yoga for Healthy Aging
Author: Suza Francina
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0757399010

One in five Americans is now moving toward the age bracket of "sixty and beyond," and while many are calling sixty the "new forty," this milestone is the perfect time to take stock in good health. One form of exercise that is proven to prevent or alleviate a host of physical and mental ailments for the last 5,000 years is yoga. Now, under the guidance of a qualified and well-known Iyengar yoga teacher, who is also the author of The New Yoga for People Over 50, readers can reap the benefits of yoga with this gentle and clear guide written specifically with today's baby boomers in mind. Filled with clear instructions, including the use of yoga props and modified poses, plus crisp follow-along photographs, The New Yoga for Healthy Aging takes readers step by step through the asanas (poses) that can prevent or lessen ailments such as osteoporosis, hip fractures, chronic pain, arthritis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. With heartfelt interviews and tips from some of America's most active yoga teachers and their older students—each sharing wisdom, insights and successes—readers will discover a source of inspiration that will help their practice evolve into more than just those moments they spend on the mat.

Yoga FAQ

Yoga FAQ
Author: Richard Rosen
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 083484057X

Concise and readable answers to the most commonly asked questions about yoga, and illuminating little-known facts and esoteric aspects of the philosophy and practice--by renowned yogi Richard Rosen. Here are answers to all the questions that come up in your yoga practice and study! Renowned yoga teacher Richard Rosen has asked—and been asked—nearly every yoga-related question that there is, and his wonderfully practical, helpful answers will give you a thorough explanation of the tradition’s key concepts, and the nuts and bolts of yoga philosophy and practice, including: • Yoga’s main texts, including the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutra, among others • Yamas and niyamas • The subtle body—what it means and what it looks like in practice • The evolution of asanas • Pranayama • Mudras and bandhas • And much more