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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Foreword by Karl Baier, Ph.D.
Part 1 • Divesting Yoga of the Sacred: Yogic Physical Culture and Health Cure
Chapter 1 • Shri Yogendra: Rejecting the Role of Yoga Guru
The Disciple Meets His Guru
Courted by the Guru: The Letters
Living with the Guru: The Apprenticeship
The First Hatha Yoga Teacher
Chapter 2 • Shri Yogendra: Creating the Profession of Yoga Teacher: The Yoga Class
The First Yoga Class
Goals of the Yoga Class
Form of the Yoga Class
Forerunners
Chapter 3 • Shri Yogendra: Making Yoga into Calisthenics
Gymnastics and Calisthenics
Müller’s Calisthenics System
Breaking with the Yoga Tradition
Assessment of Yogendra’s System
Feminine Exercise
Chapter 4 • Shri Yogendra: Taking Practical Yoga to the New World: Hatha Yoga in America
A Wonderful Dream
Vivekananda in America
Vivekananda in India
Yogendra in America
Yogendra Back in India
Chapter 5 • Shri Yogendra: Making Yoga Gentle
Relaxation
Relaxation Exercises
Conditioning Exercises
Finding Peace
Chapter 6 • Swami Kuvalayananda: Claiming Yoga Is Science
The Endocrine System in Popular Culture
Scientific Exercise for Internal Organ Health
Benefiting the Endocrine Glands
Kuvalayananda
Chapter 7 • Swami Kuvalayananda: Promoting Yoga as Health Cure: A Yoga Journal and Yoga Institute
Exercise for Healing
Macfadden
Yoga-Mimansa
Clinic
Treatment
Chapter 8 • Swami Kuvalayananda: Investigating the Yogic Phenomena: Yoga Research
Articles on Sarvangasana1
Influence of the Articles on Sarvangasana
Benefits of Sarvangasana
Conclusions for Claims for Sarvangasana Treatment
A Grand Folly
Chapter 9 • Swami Kuvalayananda: Standing Up Straight: Yoga and Good Posture
Correctives to Poor Posture
Postural Alignment Introduced into Yoga
The Cause of Poor Posture
The Yogic Body
Chapter 10 • Swami Kuvalayananda: Youthifying the Spine: Yoga and Chiropractic
Inanimate and Human Machines
Chiropractic
Yoga as Chiropractic
Yoga as Preventive Chiropractic
Order of Postures
Kuvalayananda-Style Class
Awakening the Spine
Coda
Chapter 11 • K. V. Iyer: Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga
Muscle Cult
Reconciliation of Muscle Cult and Hata-Yoga Cult
Legacy
Chapter 12 • S. Sundaram: Publishing a Yoga Manual
Demonstrations and Lectures
Magazine
The First Modern Hatha Yoga Manual
Impact of the Book
Modified Canon
Format
The Nature of Asana
Chapter 13 • S. Sundaram: Meditating on the Body in Yoga
Relaxation
The Body as Vehicle for Transcendence
Coda
Part 2 • Making Yoga Dynamic: The Sun Salutations as Yogic Exercise
Chapter 14 • Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi: Reviving Surya Namaskar
Bodybuilding
Taking Up Surya Namaskar
History of Surya Namaskar
Chapter 15 • Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi: Promoting Surya Namaskar as Health Cure and Strengthening Exercise
Worshipping the Sun Indoors
Exercise: Health Benefits
Exercise: Fitness Benefits
Religion
Chapter 16 • Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi: Making Surya Namaskar a Part of Physical Education: Mass Exercise
Surya Namaskar as State Exercise
The Surya Namaskar Craze
Beauty
Coda
Chapter 17 • T. Krishnamacharya: Keeping the Flame: Yoga at the Palace
Makings of a Yoga Master
Yoga Craze
Yogashala
Yogasana as Physical Culture
First Stages of Discipleship
Keeper of the Flame
Chapter 18 • T. Krishnamacharya: Incorporating Contortion into Yoga
Contortion as Entertainment
Contortionism
Contortion as Physical Culture
The Indian Circus
Borrowings from Contortion Acts
Krishnamacharya’s Motivation
Chapter 19 • T. Krishnamacharya: Infusing Yoga with Surya Namaskar: Yoga as Performance
Creation of Vinyasa Yoga
Trends in Indian Physical Education
Direct Influence on the Creation of Vinyasa Yoga
Motivations for Creating Vinyasa Yoga
Krishnamacharya’s Legacy
Chapter 20 • K. V. Iyer: Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga at the Palace
Maharajah of Mysore
Branch Institute in the Jagan Mohan Palace
Divine Bodybuilding
Chapter 21 • K. V. Iyer: Presenting Surya Namaskar as Stretching Exercise
Surya Namaskar as Flexibility Exercise
Modification of Surya Namaskar
Healing Power of the Sun
Salutation to the Sun God
A Bhavanarao in a World of Sandows
Chapter 22 • Louise Morgan: Making Surya Namaskar into an Elixir for Western Women
Interview with the Rajah of Aundh
Lost Youth and Long Life
Series of Articles
Chapter 23 • Louise Morgan: Pointing the Way to Health through Surya Namaskar
New Book: The Ten-Point Way to Health
Audience
Warding Off Old Age: Health and Fitness
Self-Awareness
Blank Slate
Chapter 24 • Louise Morgan: Becoming Aware of the Body in Surya Namaskar
Enthrallment with Human Motion
Proprioception
Attention to Ordinary Movements
Applying Awareness to Surya Namaskar
Surya Namaskar as Vehicle of Meditation
Embodied Transcendence
Chapter 25 • Apa Pant: Making Surya Namaskar into a Meditation
Conversion
Ambassador
World Weariness
“A Short Note on Surya Namaskars”
Pant’s Surya Namaskar Manual
Coda
Chapter 26 • Swami Sivananda: Using Surya Namaskar as a Warm-up Exercise for Yoga
Opening the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Boston
The Sivananda Class
Surya Namaskar as Exercise Compatible with Hatha Yoga
Surya Namaskar as Yogic Tonic
Surya Namaskar as Warm-Up Exercise for Asanas
Promoting Yoga
Part 3 • Making Yoga Sacred Again: Yogic Embodied Spirituality
Chapter 27 • Indra Devi: Becoming a Western, Female Yoga Teacher
Sailing to India
Discovering Yoga
Discipleship with Krishnamacharya
Teaching in China
Return to India
Chapter 28 • Indra Devi: Treating Anxiety with Yoga
Relieving Anxiety: Yoga as Relaxation Technique
Moksha
Krishnamacharya’s Legacy
Seeing Things from a Different Angle
Coda
Chapter 29 • B. K. S. Iyengar: Enduring Cruelty: A Yoga Student
Home Life with Krishnamacharya
Yoga Training
Tradition of Cruelty
Chapter 30 • B. K. S. Iyengar: Making Yoga Fierce: A Yoga Teacher
Pune
Stepping onto the World Stage
Iyengar’s Teaching
Chapter 31 • B. K. S. Iyengar: Making Yoga All-Encompassing
Typical Routine
Difficult Postures
Demonstrations
Natarajasana
Chapter 32 • B. K. S. Iyengar: Making Yoga Precise
Yogic Means of Expressing Sacred Truths
Yoga as Exercise
Yoga as Performing Art
Yogic Means of Expressing Sacred Truths
Chapter 33 • B. K. S. Iyengar: Spiritualizing the Domain of Acrobatics: Asana Practice as the Eight-Limbed Path
Attacks on Hatha Yoga
Seated Meditation
Moving Meditation
Chapter 34 • B. K. S. Iyengar: Making Asana Practice into a Meditation of Insight
Samyama in Iyengar Yoga
The Meditation of Insight
Chapter 35 • B. K. S. Iyengar: Teaching Asana as Embodied Spirituality
Recollecting the Body
Influences on Iyengar’s Spirituality
Ritual in Iyengar Yoga
Iyengar’s Legacy
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
Index
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