Ebook: Yoga in Practice

Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, graphic region, or teaching lineage. Emphasizing the lived experiences to be found in the many worlds of yoga, this book includes concise introductions to each reading by the book's contributors.;Introduction ; Note to instructors / David Gordon White -- Foundational yoga texts: The path to liberation through yogic mindfulness in early Ayurveda / Dominik Wujastyk ; A prescription for yoga and power in the Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald ; Yoga practices in the Bhagavadgl̄tā / Angelika Malinar ; Pātañjala yoga in practice / Gerald James Larson ; Yoga in the Yoga Upaniṣads : disciplines of the mystical OṂ sound / Jeffrey Clark Ruff ; The sevenfold yoga of the Yogavāsiṣṭha / Christopher Key Chapple ; A fourteenth-century Persian account of breath control and meditation / Carl W. Ernst -- Yoga in Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu tantric traditions: A Digambara Jain description of the yogic path to deliverance / Paul Dundas ; Saraha's Queen Dohās / Roger R. Jackson ; The questions and answers of Vajrasattva / Jacob P. Dalton ; The six-phased yoga of the abbreviated wheel of time tantra (Laghukālacakratantra) according to Vajrapāṇi / Vesna A. Wallace ; Eroticism and cosmic transformation as yoga : the Ātmatattva of the Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyās of Bengal / Glen Alexander Hayes ; The transport of the Haṃsas : A Śakta Rāsalīlā as Rājayoga in eighteenth-century Benares / Somadeva Vasudeva -- Yoga of the Nāth Yogīs: The original Gorakṣaśataka / James Mallinson ; Nāth Yogīs, Akbar, and the "Bālnāth Ṭillā" / William R. Pinch ; Yogic language in village performance: hymns of the householder Nāths / Ann Grodzins Gold and Daniel Gold -- Yoga in the colonial and post-colonial periods: The yoga system of the Josmanīs / Sthaneshwar Timalsina ; Songs to the highest god (Īśvara) of Sāṃkhya-Yoga / Knut A. Jacobsen ; Yoga Makaranda of T. Krishnamacharya / Mark Singleton, M. Narasimhan and M.A. Jayashree ; Theos Bernard and the early days of tantric yoga in America / Paul G. Hackett ; Universalist and missionary Jainism : Jain yoga of the Terāpanthī tradition / Olle Qvarnström and Jason Birch.