Original Yoga: Rediscovering Traditional Practices of Hatha Yoga


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Original Yoga: Rediscovering Traditional Practices of Hatha Yoga [Richard Rosen] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Part history, part. Editorial Reviews. Review. “Drawing from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Gheranda Samhita, and the Shiva Samhita, Richard Rosen presents a surprisingly.

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I'm not finished reading yet, but so far I'm enjoying it. It does go over the history and "making of" yoga and some of the first poses.

It covers energies in just a little different format than chalkras. Its not a completely objective history, but more of Mr.

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Please review your cart. First, the chapters on Gheranda's 32 postures could use more illustrations. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. It seems like it was for the more advanced or experienced person and that is not me. Brass rated it really liked it Nov 14, Withoutabox Submit to Film Festivals. He is a contributing editor at Yoga Journal magazine and director of and one of the principal teachers at the Piedmont Yoga Studio cofounded by Rodney Yee , in Oakland, California.

Rosen's take on the forming and development of yoga based on several ancient texts. If you're looking for something that follows the 8 limbs or yoga sutra, this isn't exactly it. But if you're looking for another perspective. This is a great option. I'm trying to learn all I can, so I'm enjoying reading about this history, the energies, and the postures. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Allow yourself to weed through this book and don't get bogged down on the actual practices lest you miss the gems Rosen brings to light from the treatises illuminating what yoga was what yoga is and what yoga will be for each of us if we take them back into those practices and the workshop of our mat.

One person found this helpful. This book was Amazing As expected. It is richard Rosen It is unlike any other contemporary yoga book I've read. Richard Rosen has done the grueling work of reading and understanding and comparing early Hatha Yoga textts so that we can learn from him what practices are accessible and useful today. RR also shares wisdom from his decades of practice -- all with humor and a great love of words. A joy and a hoot and I am learning a lot! Richard contextualizes his teachings well. I come to understand the body's process as a natural path to serenity through traditional yoga.

Different viewpoint and very useful. Hatha yoga, the practice of physical postures as a way of exerting control over the body and, ultimately, the mind, is definitely one of the most popular forms of yoga being practiced today in the West. Among all the methods of yoga, the almost exclusive focus on bodily movement and breathing is most accessible to the very body-conscious Westerner. Many of the traditional schools of modern yoga, such as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Sivananda Yoga -and by extension any of the teachers taking inspiration from these three - claim that their practices, sequences, and techniques are based in the ancient literature of the hatha yogis, particularly the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Siva Samhita, and the Gheranda Samhita.

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