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Swami Sundarananda was a student of the reclusive yoga master Swami Tapovan Maharaj (1889–1957), who wrote in the late 19th and early 20th centuries about yogic life in the Himalayas in the classic yoga book Wanderings in the Himalayas (Himagiri Vihar). [5]
Mahavatar Babaji (IAST: Mahāvatāra Bābājī; lit. ' Great Avatar (Revered) Father ') is the Himalayan yogi and guru who taught Kriya Yoga to Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895). [2] [3] [a] Babaji first became recognized through the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, who devoted a chapter of his Autobiography of a Yogi to Babaji and founded Self-Realization Fellowship, a modern yoga movement that ...
Hansa Yogendra (born 8 October 1947) is an Indian yoga guru, author, researcher and TV personality. [1] [2] [3] She is director of The Yoga Institute in Mumbai, founded by her father-in-law Shri Yogendra.
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A manuscript page from the Yogabija. The Yogabīja describes a fourfold system for attaining liberation (), spanning Mantra Yoga, Laya Yoga, Haṭha Yoga, and Rāja Yoga.It specifically denies that liberation is possible simply by knowledge or jñāna; instead, it argues that the yogin needs both knowledge and yoga, and that liberation results in the yogin becoming an immortal jivanmukti ...
The Yoga Upanishads. The Adyar Library. Callahan, Daren (2007). Yoga: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English 1981-2005. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786431625. Daniélou, Alain (1 August 1991). Yoga: Mastering the Secrets of Matter and the Universe. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. ISBN 978-0-89281-301-8. Deussen, Paul (1 January 1997).
Swami Hariharananda Aranya (1869–1947) was a yogi, [2] author, and founder of Kapil Math in Madhupur, India, which is the only monastery in the world that actively teaches and practices Samkhya philosophy. [3] His book, Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali with Bhasvati, is considered to be one of the most authentic and authoritative classical ...
The book was one of the first three reference works on asanas (yoga postures) in the development of yoga as exercise in the mid-20th century, the other two being Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich's 1941 Sport és Jóga (in Spanish: an English version appeared in 1953) and Theos Bernard's 1944 Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personal Experience. [2]