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The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice

10 best books like The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice (T.K.V. Desikachar): The Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Light on Yoga, Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life, The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga, 2,100 Asanas: The Complete Yoga Poses, The Yoga Sutras, Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stillness

The Bhagavad Gita
AuthorKrishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
ISBN0140449183
The Bhagavad Gita is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battle between the Pandava and Kaurava armies, the god Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior...
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
AuthorPatañjali
ISBN0609609599
“A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth.”—Jacob Needleman

The Yoga Sutras were cast in their present form in India around the third century b.c. Yoga is from the Sanskrit root meaning “union,” and a sutra is a thread or aphoristic...
Light on Yoga
AuthorB.K.S. Iyengar
ISBN0805210318
Light on Yoga has become the bible for hundreds of thousands of people who practice Yoga daily with the Iyengar method, for exercise, meditation, or simply relaxation. With more than 600 photographs depicting all the postures and breathing exercises, it remains the fullest, most practical, and most...
Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life
AuthorJudith Hanson Lasater
ISBN0962713880
If you think that you have to escape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life—all of them—as practice....
The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga
AuthorRay Long
ISBN0977961419
This is the third edition of The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga, with extended contents. There is a new cover, over 50 new pages with an expanded chapter on the breath and more biomechanics in yoga. 244 page book with over 650 colour 3D computer generated images of a human skeleton covering over thirty key muscles...
2,100 Asanas: The Complete Yoga Poses
AuthorDaniel Lacerda
ISBN1631910108
This fully-illustrated New York Times bestseller categorizes an astonishing 2,100 yoga poses through inspiring photographs and descriptions for optimal benefit at any level.

A thoughtful, inspiring, meticulously-crafted guide to the practice of yoga, 2,100 Asanas will explore...
The Yoga Sutras
AuthorPatañjali
ISBN0932040381
 

This valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic...
Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga
AuthorRolf Gates
ISBN0385721544
AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL

As more and more people in the West pursue yoga in its various forms, whether at traditional centers, in the high-powered atmosphere of sports clubs, or on their own, they begin to realize that far from being just another exercise routine, yoga is a discipline of the...
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
AuthorYogi Swatmarama
ISBN8185787387
This affordable, definitive edition of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika contains the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and full-page photographs of all the asanas. The chakras, kundalini, mudras, shakti, nadis, bandhas, and many other topics are explained. This is the first edition of the...
Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stillness
AuthorErich Schiffmann
ISBN0671534807
Although I learned more from Schiffmann's DVD with Ali MacGraw which I practiced with for the longest time during the long Vermont winters several years ago, I also bought this book which was very helpful, because the explanations and reasons behind the poses was described in great detail. My favorite...
Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness
AuthorDonna Farhi
ISBN0805059709
The author of Yoga Journal's most-read column presents the first holistic guide to yoga

A user-friendly guide illustrated with 240 two-color photographs and illustrations, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit sets forth the tenets of this gentle yet rigorous exercise as no other book has. Integrating...
Light on Life
AuthorB.K.S. Iyengar
ISBN1594865248
B.K.S. Iyengar--hailed as "the Michelangelo of yoga" (BBC) and considered by many to be the most important living yoga master--has spent much of his life introducing the modern world to the ancient practice of yoga. Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance as an exercise for physical...
Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga
AuthorSri K. Pattabhi Jois
ISBN0865476624
The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga yoga by the master of this increasingly popular discipline

There is a yoga boom in America, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois is at the heart of it. One of the great yoga figures of our time, Jois brought Ashtanga yoga to the West a quarter of a century ago and has...
Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual
AuthorDavid Swenson
ISBN1891252089
Whether new to Ashtanga or an experienced student or teacher, readers will find this book to be invaluable. It contains over 650 photos and multiple variations for every asana in the primary and intermediate series plus three short forms. Its spiral binding assures easy use while practicing and the...
The Yamas Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice
AuthorDeborah Adele
ISBN0974470643
The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras—the basic text for classical yoga—are examined in this spiritual guide to the practice of yoga. Foundational to all yogic thought, they are considered to be the guidelines to the yoga way of living that free individuals to take ownership...
Yoga Anatomy
AuthorLeslie Kaminoff
ISBN0736062785
See inside every yoga pose! With clear, expert instruction and full-color, detailed anatomical drawings, Yoga Anatomy depicts the most common asanas to provide a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement and of yoga itself.

From breathing to standing...
Raja-Yoga
AuthorSwami Vivekananda
Clinging to books only degenerates the human mind.
Swami Vivekananda was, among other things, one of the great grandfathers of hippiedom. I say this because he was a key figure in the introduction of Hinduism into the West.

Vivekananda arrived at an opportune moment. Nietzsche had...
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self
AuthorAnodea Judith
ISBN1587612259
In EASTERN BODY, WESTERN MIND, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics. This groundbreaking work in transpersonal...
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