Author: N E Sjoman
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170173892
Description
The book requires to view the history and development of yoga from an entirely new perspective.
The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace traces the developments in the yoga tradition that has led to the strongest yoga tradition practiced in the world today, from Astanga Yoga system and the Iyengar system.
The spread of this yoga systems all over the modern world is unparalleled in the history of yoga, it partakes of the nature of a mass movement.
Contents
Foreword by His Highness, Srikantadatta
Narasimharaja Wadiyar
Preface
Mysore Yoga Painting
synopsis of painting by Swami Sivapriyananda
Illustrations of the Asanas from the SRITATTVANIDHI
Introduction
The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace
The Nature of Indian Tradition
The Yoga Tradition
Textual Survey of the Yoga Tradition
Modern Practices of Yoga
The Subject and Source of the Present Study
Development in the Philosophical Yoga Tradition from Patanjali
The Asana Tradition
The Modern Asana Traditions
BKS Iyengar's Asana Teaching
Pattabhi Jois's Asana Teaching
BKS Iyengar's Reformation of the Jois / Krishnamacariar Series
Krishnamacariar's Yoga Teaching
Krishnaraja Wodeyar-Student and Patron of Yoga
The Mysore Palace Gymnastics Tradition
The Mysore Palace Wrestling Tradition
The Yoga Section of the SRITATTVANIDHI
Conclusions
Translation of the SRITATTVANIDHI Text
Appendix I - Alphabetical list of asanas from The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga
Appendix II - Alphabetical list of asanas from First Steps to Higher Yoga
Appendix III - Alphabetical List of asanas from the HATHAPRADIPIKA, GHERANDASAMHITA, SIVASAMHITA AND GORAKSASAMHITA
Appendix IV- List of asanas in the order taught by Pattabhi Jois at his Astanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore
Appendix V- Alphabetical list of asanas from Krisnamacariar's YOGAMAKARANDA
Appendix VI-Yoga section of the MAISURU MAISIRI
Appendix VII- Photographs from the VYAYAMADIPIKA
Appendix VIII- Photographs from Krishnamacariar's YOGAMAKARANDA
Appendix IX - Alphabetical list of asanas from the SRITATTVANIDHI
Bibliography
Index