Bibliography
on Hatha Yoga
Compiled by
Lance Nelson, University of San Diego
GENERAL
Jones,
Lindsay, ed. 2005.
Encyclopedia of Religion. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
[look up yoga, hatha yoga, kundalini, siddhis, etc.
There's an index in the final volume]
Burley, Mikel.
2000. Hatha Yoga: Its Context, Theory and Practice.
New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Strauss,
Sarah. 2005. Positioning Yoga. Berg Publishers.
MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENT
Alter, Joseph
S. 2004. Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science
and Philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Bernard,
Theos. 1968. Hatha Yoga: The
Report of a Personal Experience. New York, S. Weiser [or New York:
Columbia University Press, 1944]
de Michelis,
Elizabeth. 2005. A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and
Western Esotericism. New York: Continuum.
Sjoman, N. E.
The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace.
2nd ed. New Delhi:
Abhinav Publications, 1999.
Yogananda,
Paramahansa. 1994. Autobiography of a Yogi. Nevada City, CA: Crystal
Clarity Publishers.
HISTORY AND
ORIGINS
Magee, Mike.
Yoga and the Nath Sampradaya http://www.shivashakti.com/yogas.htm
Banerjea,
Akshaya Kumar. 1999.
Philosophy of Gorakhnath: With Goraksha-Vacana-Sangraha.
New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Briggs,
George Weston. 2001.
Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. [In its last section, deals
with Goraksasataka and gives an English translation and
annotations, and discusses
the physiological concepts, chief aims and methods.]
Flood,
Galvin. 1996. An Introduction
to Hinduism. New York:
Cambridge University Press. [See
pp. 98-102 for a brief overview of Hatha Yoga.]
Eliade,
Mircea. 1969. Yoga, Immortality, and Freedom. Trans. W. R. Trask.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
See pp. 227-249 on Hatha Yoga.
Gheranda.
2004. Gheranda Samhita. Trans. by James Mallinson.
Woodstock, NY: YogaVidya.com
Gheranda.
1992. Pure Yoga: A Translation from the Sanskrit into
English of the Tantrik Work, The Gherandasamhita, with a Guiding
Commentary. Trans. by Yogi
Pranavananda, eited with introduction by
Tony Rodriguez and Kanshi Ram. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Larson,
Gerald. Encyclopedia of
Indian Philosophy, volume on yoga (forthcoming). Has a chapter on hatha yoga.
Ruff, Jeffrey
Clark. 2002. History, Text, and Context of the Yoga
Upanisads. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara.
[Univ. Microfilms International 3073645]
Svatmarama,
Svami. Hathayogapradipika.
Trans. by Brian Dana Akers. Woodstock,
NY: YogaVidya.com. [best to
look for the Lonavla translation
by Swami Digambarji, if possible (EM)]
White, David.
1996. The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in
Medieval India. Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago Press.
ADDENDA
1. [O]thing
that might be of interest esp. to undergraduates is Kadetsky's _First
There is a Mountain_ which is a semi-autobiographical account of a
journalist's stay with the Iyengar's in Pune and her attempts to get to
the bottom of modern yoga's history. It is a real page-turner, I
personally read it in a few hours--couldn't put it down. Not academic, but
has its virtues. Also Alter's _Gandhi's
Body_ and _The
Wrestler's Body_ are perhaps even
better than his _Yoga
in Modern India_ for getting at
ubiquitous modern yoga practices like "Surya Namaskar" and the
physical culture of yoga. N.E. Sjoman also has another book out, _Yoga
Touchstone_ which extends some of
his ruminations from _Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace_ as well. [S. R.
Sarbacker]
2. Newcombe,
Suzanne
2005 ?
"Spirituality and 'Mystical Religion' in Contemporary Society: A Case
Study of British Practitioners of the Iyengar Method of Yoga",
Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 20, no. 3:305-321.
Singleton,
Mark
2005 ?
"Salvation Through Relaxation: Proprioceptive Therapy in Relation to
Yoga", Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 20, no.3 :289-304.
More details
and info on Cambridge research activities in this area may be found at:
http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/modernyoga/
[E. De
Michelis]
3. Three
major recent books:
A History of
Modern Yoga by Elizabeth de Michelis (Continuum, 2004)
Positioning
Yoga by Sarah Strauss (Berg, 2005)
Yoga in
Modern India by Joseph Alter (Princeton, 2004)
Plus
The Yoga
Tradition of the Mysore Palace by N. Sjoman (Abhinav, 1996).
[C. K.
Chapple]
Revised: April 16, 2006
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