The Truth of Yoga : : a Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices

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Call Number: 181.45 Si
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Early Yoga -- Ancient Roots -- Ascetics And Tapas -- Seers And Soma -- Restraint And Ritual -- Mystic Mantras -- Saluting The Sun -- Vedas And Brahmins -- Is This Hinduism? -- Cyclical Time -- Karma, Rebirth, And Liberation -- Renunciation -- The End Of The Vedas -- Early Upanishads -- Self-Realization -- Not This, Not That -- Lead Me To The Real! -- Internalized Focus -- Rewinding Creation -- Breath And Consciousness -- Om And Oneness -- Seeds Of Yoga -- 2. Classical Yoga -- Embodied Liberation? -- Epic Methods -- Devotional Chanting -- Gods And Yogis -- The Meaning Of Life -- War And Peace -- Acting Wisely -- Seeing Clearly -- Meditative Insight -- The Power Of Love -- Practical Bhakti -- Trippy Visions -- Fate And Free Will -- Finding Our Way -- The Seer And The Seen -- Nature's Web -- Sister Systems -- Patanjali's Yoga -- Whose Sutras? -- Reducing Suffering -- Changing Patterns -- First Do No Harm -- Ashtanga And Asana -- One-Pointed Focus -- Seeing The Light -- Divine Awareness -- Magic Powers -- Splendid Isolation? -- Rival Theories -- 3. Hatha Yoga -- Transformation -- What Is Tantra? -- Gurus And Gods -- Tantric Mantras -- Mystical Images -- Six-Part Yoga -- The Yogic Body -- Invisible Nadis -- Imaginary Chakras -- Raising Kundalini -- Sacred Geography -- Uniting Opposites -- What Is Hatha? -- Yoga For All -- King Of Yogas -- A Body Of Knowledge -- Practice, Practice -- Complex Postures -- Bodily Remedies -- Cleansing Actions -- Breathing And Bandhas -- Potent Mudras -- Sex And Yoga -- Sounds Of Silence -- 4. Modern Yoga -- Proliferating Postures -- Expanded Manuals -- Copy-Paste Primers -- Missing Links -- Hidden Inventions -- Reviving Tradition -- National Pride -- Gymnastic Aspects -- Holistic Health -- Relax And Revive -- Indigenous Arts -- Postural Focus -- Adjustments And Props -- Alternative Methods -- Authenticity Vs. Utility -- What's Appropriate? -- Power Yoga -- Yoga Therapy -- New Directions -- CONCLUSION -- Adaptation -- Integration.
"An overview and introduction to the background and origins of the different texts, beliefs, and practices that form yoga historically and today"-- Provided by publisher.

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