Calcutta Yoga

Author : Jerome Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692116710

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In the 1930s, Buddha became a part of the Bhagabati Ghosh family, who welcomed Buddha into their home at 4 Garpar Road in North Calcutta. Buddha married the daughter of his yogic physical culture teacher, Bishnu Charan Ghosh, and was initiated into the spiritual lineage from the brother known as Paramhansa Yogananda. The trio of Buddha, Bishnu and Yogananda, found their roots in ancient Indian spirituality, Hatha and Kriya yoga. In the 1940s crisis hits both family and city. In the 1950s to 70s they would help bring yoga to Europe, with Gouri Shankar Mukerji, to Japan, and to America, with Bikram Choudhury. During the 20th century, the Calcutta yoga family would modernize and bring the practice of yoga to the world.

Author : Jerome Armstrong
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781529048117

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Calcutta Yoga by Jerome Armstrong Pdf

An often surprising and always sure-footed survey of the magic of yoga and Calcutta's role in bringing it to the world' JOHN ZUBRZYCKI 'Interweaving historical facts with Armstrong's own experiences ... the result is a book which is neither an autobiography nor a purely scientific work - quite a unique mixture ... it moves me' CLAUDIA GUGGENBÜHL 'I wish I was doing what he is doing [in Calcutta Yoga]' BISHWANATH GHOSH The epic story of how Buddha Bose, Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda took yoga from Calcutta to the rest of the world. In Calcutta Yoga, Jerome Armstrong deftly weaves the multi-generational story of the first family of yoga and how they modernized the ancient practice. The saga covers four generations, the making of a city, personal friendships, and shines light on the remarkable people who transformed yoga and made it a truly global phenomenon. Along the way, we also meet the people who founded the schools of yoga that are so well known today. Enriching the cast of characters are the internationally renowned B. K. S. Iyengar, Mr Universe Monotosh Roy, even as the book uncovers the truth about Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram Yoga. We follow them and others from the streets of Calcutta to the United States, London, Tokyo and beyond, where they perform astounding feats and help revise Western perceptions of yoga. Cleverly researched and enjoyably anecdotal, Calcutta Yoga gives a holistic picture of the evolution of yoga, and pays homage to yogic heroes previously lost from history, while highlighting the pivotal early role the city of Calcutta played in redefining the practice. A culmination of rigorous fieldwork and numerous interviews, this book is as much about yoga as it is about history, relationships and human nature.

Author : Jerome Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Hatha yoga
ISBN : 9389109302

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Calcutta Yoga by Jerome Armstrong Pdf

Author : Anya Foxen,Christa Kuberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429750588

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Is This Yoga? by Anya Foxen,Christa Kuberry Pdf

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Is This Yoga? Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Contemporary Practice recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts, traditions, social interests, and embodied practices, it raises questions of knowledge, identity, and power across time and space, including the dynamics of "East" and "West." The text is divided into three main sections: thematic concepts; histories; and topics in modern practice. This accessible guide is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching the topic for the first time, as well as yoga teachers, teacher training programs, casual and devoted practitioners, and interested non-practitioners.

Author : Daren Callahan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476607023

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Yoga by Daren Callahan Pdf

Millions of people practice some form of yoga, but they often do so without a clear understanding of its history, traditions, and purposes. This comprehensive bibliography, designed to assist researchers, practitioners, and general readers in navigating the extensive yoga literature, lists and comments upon English–language yoga texts published since 1981. It includes entries for more than 2,400 scholarly as well as popular works, manuals, original Sanskrit source text translations, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, and master’s theses. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author for easy access, while thorough author, title, and subject indexes will help readers find books of interest.

Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791487914

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Yoga and Psychology by Harold Coward Pdf

Explores the influence of yoga in the seminal Indian philosophy of Bhartrhari and in the Western psychology of Freud, Jung, and the transpersonalists, providing unique insights into the differences between Eastern and Western concepts of human nature.

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351624749

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Yoga in Modern Hinduism by Knut A. Jacobsen Pdf

The Sāṃkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maṭh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraṇya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism. The book analyses the yoga teaching of Hariharānanda Āraṇya (1869-1947) and the Kāpil Maṭh tradition, its origin, history and contemporary manifestations, and this tradition’s connection to the expansion of yoga and the Yogasūtra in modern Hinduism. The Sāṃkhyayoga of the Kāpil Maṭh tradition is based on the Pātañjalayogaśāstra, on a number of texts in Sanskrit and Bengali written by their gurus, and on the lifestyle of the renunciant yogin living isolated in a cave. The book investigates Hariharānanda Āraṇya’s connection to pre-modern yoga traditions and the impact of modern production and transmission of knowledge on his interpretations of yoga. The book connects the Kāpil Maṭh tradition to the nineteenth century transformations of Bengali religious culture of the educated upper class that led to the production of a new type of yogin. The book analyses Sāṃkhyayoga as a living tradition, its current teachings and practices, and looks at what Sāṃkhyayogins do and what Sāṃkhyayoga is as a yoga practice. A valuable contribution to recent and ongoing debates, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Indology, Indian philosophy, Hindu Studies and Yoga Studies.

Author : Sarah Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000180640

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Positioning Yoga by Sarah Strauss Pdf

What is yoga? Stereotypical images of people practicing this ancient art range from white-bearded Indian mystics chanting 'om' on mountaintops to urban fitness fanatics contorted into uncomfortable looking positions. We recognize the name, but may not realize how the set of ideas and practices known as yoga moved from its birthplace on the Indian subcontinent to become a global phenomenon. Positioning Yoga considers how the recent development of yoga, from its introduction to Western audiences by the Indian Swami Vivekananda at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago through to the present day, has generated specific forms of modern practice. Strauss takes us on an illuminating journey from India to Germany and America, and back again to India. While acknowledging yogas point of origin, Strauss explores how yogic practices and ideas have been transformed when they cross cultural boundaries.Yoga can be defined in many ways as an attitude, a philosophic system, a set of practices, a way of being in the world but its definition is always located within a particular historical context. What makes yoga practitioners affiliated with Swami Sivanandas Divine Life Society of Rishikesh, India - whether they hail from India, North America, or Europe - unique? What values around the world have supported the surging popularity of yoga over the past century? This absorbing book considers how lifestyle values have made yoga a global industry and shows how culture is produced and disseminated across boundaries.

Author : Owen Ware
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003807452

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Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware Pdf

This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and at times hopeful – reception of classical Yoga philosophies in Germany during the nineteenth century. When debates over God, religion, and morality were at a boiling point in Europe, Sanskrit translations of classical Indian thought became available for the first time. Almost overnight India became the centre of a major controversy concerning the origins of western religious and intellectual culture. Working forward from this controversy, this book examines how early translations of works such as the Bhagavad Gītā and the Yoga Sūtras were caught in the crossfire of another debate concerning the rise of pantheism, as a doctrine that identifies God and nature. It shows how these theological concerns shaped the image of Indian thought in the work of Schlegel, Gunderrode, Humboldt, Hegel, Schelling, and others, lasting into the nineteenth century and beyond. Furthermore, this book explores how worries about the perceived nihilism of Yoga were addressed by key voices in the early twentieth century Indian Renaissance – notably Dasgupta, Radhakrishnan, and Bhattacharyya – who defended sophisticated counterreadings of their intellectual heritage during the colonial era. Written for non-specialists, Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany will be of interest to students and scholars working on nineteenth-century philosophy, Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy, Hindu studies, intellectual history, and religious history.

Author : Mark Singleton,Jean Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134055197

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Yoga in the Modern World by Mark Singleton,Jean Byrne Pdf

Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon. Yoga has taken the world by storm and is even seeing renewed popularity in India. Both in India and abroad, adults, children and teenagers are practicing yoga in diverse settings; gyms, schools, home, work, yoga studios and temples. The yoga diaspora began well over a hundred years ago and we continue to see new manifestations and uses of Yoga in the modern world. As the first of its kind this collection draws together cutting edge scholarship in the field, focusing on the theory and practice of yoga in contemporary times. Offering a range of perspectives on yoga's contemporary manifestations, it maps the movement, development and consolidation of yoga in global settings. The collection features some of the most well-known authors within the field and newer voices. The contributions span a number of disciplines in the humanities, including, anthropology, Philosophy, Studies in Religion and Asian studies, offering a range of entry points to the issues involved in the study of the subject. As such, is of use to those involved in academic scholarship, as well as to the growing number of yoga practitioners who seek a deeper account of the origin and significance of the techniques and traditions they are engaging with. It will also-and perhaps most of all-speak to the growing numbers of 'scholar-practitioners' who straddle these two realms. Further resources and supporting material are available to view at www.yogainthemodernworld.com

Author : Georg Feuerstein
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0892816031

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The Philosophy of Classical Yoga by Georg Feuerstein Pdf

This book differs from other studies of Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra in that it places it in its original context and sees it as the source of the whole edifice of classical yoga and not just as a summary of previous developments. An essential reference for students and practitioners of yoga's philosophical foundations.

Author : Stuart Ray Sarbacker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438481234

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Tracing the Path of Yoga by Stuart Ray Sarbacker Pdf

Clear, accessible, and meticulously annotated, Tracing the Path of Yoga offers a comprehensive survey of the history and philosophy of yoga that will be invaluable to both specialists and to nonspecialists seeking a deeper understanding of this fascinating subject. Stuart Ray Sarbacker argues that yoga can be understood first and foremost as a discipline of mind and body that is represented in its narrative and philosophical literature as resulting in both numinous and cessative accomplishments that correspond, respectively, to the attainment of this-worldly power and otherworldly liberation. Sarbacker demonstrates how the yogic quest for perfection as such is situated within the concrete realities of human life, intersecting with issues of politics, economics, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as reflecting larger Indic religious and philosophical ideals.

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-26
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0691142033

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Yoga by Mircea Eliade Pdf

First published in English in 1958, the author lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, providing a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century.

Author : Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D.
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0834822083

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The Deeper Dimension of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. Pdf

"Here is a comprehensive survey of the full breadth and depth of the 5,000-year-old Yoga tradition, emphasizing its potent philosophy and spiritual vision. Georg Feuerstein demonstrates that Yoga is much more than a system of physical exercises—it is a profound path of self-transformation that encompasses a range of teachings, practices, and sacred texts that can help us cultivate wisdom, balance, and inner freedom, as well as physical health. Feuerstein is one of the few Western scholar-teachers of Yoga whose writing and teaching penetrate the full richness and depth of this ancient tradition. Here he offers a collection of essays touching on all facets of the discipline. Topics include: • The different branches and styles of Yoga • The ethical teachings of Yoga • Yoga and vegetarianism • Meditation and mantras • Choosing a teacher • Tantric Yoga • The experience of ecstasy

Author : Patañjali,Swami Veda Bharati
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 8120818253

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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patañjali,Swami Veda Bharati Pdf