• Practical Technique
• Philosophy of Yoga
• Anatomy & Phisiology
• Teaching Application
• Sanskrit
• Workshop Electives
• Classes with Shala Instructors
• Private Instruction
• Bibliography for Yoga
* Required for Yogashala Teacher Training Classes
♯ Recommended
† Several editions, manuscripts, or translations exist
General Overviews of Yoga & Yoga Therapy
* ♯ T.K.V. Desikachar. Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice. University Press of America, 1980.
* ♯ T.K.V. Desikachar. The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice. Inner Traditions, 1999.
♯ † B.K.S. Iyengar. Light on Yoga. Thorsons, an imprint of Harper Collins, Great Britain, 1991.
♯ Srivatsa Ramaswami. Yoga for the Three Stages of Life, 1st edition. Inner Traditions, 2001.
† Pattabhi Jois. Yoga Mala. North Point Press, New York, 2002.
Srivatsa Ramaswami. The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga. Marlowe and Company, New York, NY, 2005.
Yoga Sutras
Note: There are several manuscripts, translations, and editions of these texts several of which are not easily available or are out of print so we often will not include a specific publisher or translator.
♯ Patanjali Yoga Darsanam. KYM Publications. (Contains the Sanskrit + transliteration for chanting the Yoga Sutras)
♯ Swami Hariharananda Aranya, P.N. Mukherji (tr). Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali with Bhasvati. SUNY Press, 1984.
† Vijnana Bhiksu, Yoga Sara Samgraha. Translated by Ganganath Jha. Delhi, 2004.
† Vijnana Bhiksu, Yoga Varttika. Translated by T.S. Rukmini.
† Vacaspati Misra, Yoga Tattvaisaradi
† Bhojar, Raja Martanda
Anatomy
* ♯ Leslie Kaminoff, Yoga Anatomy. Human Kinetics, Jun. 2007.
† David Coulter, Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers, and Practitioners. Body and Breath, Jan. 2010
Blandine Calais-Germain, Anatomy of Movement, revised edition. Eastland Press, Dec. 2007.
Philosophy
♯ † Patrick Olivelle, The Upanisads. Oxford University Press, 1996.
♯ † J.A.B. van Buitenen (tr.), The Bhagavad Gita in the Mahabhaarata. The University of Chicago Press, 1981.
S. Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy. George Allen and Unwin. London 1923. 2 vols.
† Isvarakrsna, Samkhya Karika with the commentary of Gaudapada. Translated by T.G. Mainkar. Delhi, 2004.
† J.R.Ballantyne, Samkhya aphorisms of Kapila. Delhi, 2004.
Georg Feuerstein, The Yoga Tradition. Its history, Literature, Philosophy and Practice. Hohm Press. Prescott 2001.
† George Thibaut (translator), The Vedānta Sūtras with commentary by Samkara and by Ramanuja. Motilal Banarsidas. Delhi, 1968.
Classical Yoga Texts in the Hatha, Tantra, Siddha, and Saiva Traditions
Note: There are several manuscripts, translations, commentaries of these texts several of which are not easily available or are out of print. So we often will not include a specific publisher or translator.
♯ † Swatmarama’s Hatha Yoga Pradipika.
♯ † Yoga Yajnavalkya Samhita.
♯ † Chandra Vasu (tr). Gheranda Samhita. Chaukamba Sanskrit Pratishthan, Delhi, 2003.
Note: There are several other translations and commentaries of this text in print.
♯ † Chandra Vasu (tr). Siva Samhita. Chaukamba Sanskrit Pratishthan, Delhi, 2004.
Note: There are several other translations and commentaries of this text in print.
† Yoga Upanisads
† Tirumular, Tirumandiram. Ramakrishna Math, Jan 1991.
Yoga of the 18 Siddhas.
Works by Krishnamacarya
♯ † T. Krishnamacarya. Yoga Makarandam. Tamil Edition, CMV Press, Madurai, 1938.
♯ † T. Krishnamacarya (presenter). Nathamuni’s Yoga Rahasya. KYM Publi- cations, Chenna,i 2004.
T. Krishnamacarya. Yogasanagulu, Fourth Revised Edition. University of Mysore Press, Mysore, 1981.
T. Krishnamacarya. Yoga Valli, a commentary on the First Chapter of the Yoga Sutras.
♯ T. Krishnamacarya. Yoga Makaranda. Translated from the Tamil version by Lakshmi Ranganathan and Nandini Ranganathan.
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