Research Catalog

Title

The heart of yoga : developing a personal practice / by T.K.V. Desikachar.

Author

Desikachar, T. K. V.

Publication

Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions International, c1995.

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Details

Description

xxviii, 244 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

• The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga-adapted to the needs of the individual.
• In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar offers a distillation of his father's system as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as "a program for the spine at every level--physical, mental, and spiritual." This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga. Desikachar discusses all the elements of yoga--poses and counterposes, conscious breathing, meditation, and philosophy--and shows how the yoga student may develop a practice tailored to his or her current state of health, age, occupation, and lifestyle.

Subject

• Hatha yoga
• Yoga

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The life and yoga of Śrī T. Krishnamacharya -- Practice of yoga -- Yoga: concept and meaning -- The foundations of yoga practice -- The principles of Āsana practice -- The careful construction of a yoga practice -- Āsana variations -- Prānāyāma -- The bandhas -- The understanding of yoga -- The things that darken the heart -- Actions leave traces -- The world exists to be seen and discovered -- Living in the world -- The world exists to be seen and discovered -- Living in the world -- The world exists to set us free -- The qualities of the mind -- None obstacles on the yoga way -- The many paths of yoga -- The yoga sūtra of Patañjali -- Yogāñjalisāram.

ISBN

• 089281764X
• 9780892817641

LCCN

^^^99462597^

OCLC

• 764650266
• SCSB-11401033

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library