Books on Yoga - Yoga Books

Learning yoga can be great fun! You may be learning yoga at home in which case you may need some books to help guide you. Even if you attend a regular yoga class, yoga books can help reinforce what you have learnt in class.

If you are training to be a yoga teacher some of these books are required reading especially if you wish to become knowledgeable and proficient in the art an science of yoga.

Yogic Anatomy

Anatomy of Hatha Yoga
A Manual for Students, Teachers, and Practitioners
Coulter, who received a PhD in anatomy in 1968, and has taught in numerous contexts since then, has also been a student of yoga since the 1970s. Here he conjoins his two areas of expertise. Discusses the basic premises regarding yoga practice focusing attention on what is happening in each hatha yoga posture.

Ancient Yogic Texts

The Bhagavad Gita
Juan Mascaro (Translator)
The 18 chapters of "The Bhagavad-Gita" (c. 500 BC), encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul, and the three central themes of this immortal poem - love, light and life - arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God..

The Upanishads
Juan Mascaro (Translator)
"The Upanishads" represent for the Hindu approximately what the New Testament represents for the Christian. The earliest of these spiritual treatises, which vary greatly in length, were put down in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 BC. This selection from 12 Upanishads, with its illuminating introduction by Juan Mascaro, reveals the paradoxical variety and unity, the great questions and simple answers, the spiritual wisdom and romantic imagination of these "Himalayas of the soul".

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Sri Swami Satchidananda (Translator)
Patanjali's sutras - scriptural narratives sometimes defined as literally as "the path to transcendence" - are a philosophical outlook and method intended to aid the awakening of self-realization. This is a translation of Patanjali's sutras and meditations.

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Svatmarama, Brian Dana Akers
Over the last half millennium, one book has established itself as the classic work on Hatha Yoga--the book you are holding in your hands. An Indian yogi named Svatmarama wrote the Hatha Yoga Pradipika in the fifteenth century C.E. Drawing on his own experience and older works now lost, he wrote this book for the student of Yoga. He wrote this book for you.

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