Resources and Bibliography

Bibliography and Resources:

(there are many more, these are the ones who most directly fed my curiosity as I prepared my Zoom classes and wrote my blogs) They are in no particular order (please forgive me, I did my best)

Translations of The Yoga Sutra:

The Secret of the Yoga Sutra: Samadhi Pada

Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD

The Practice of the Yoga Sutra: Sadhana Pada

Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD

The Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali: Sanskrit Text with Translation

Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Books on Technique and Philosophy:

Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit

Donna Farhi

Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness

Erich Schiffmann

The Mirror of Yoga: Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind

Richard Freeman

Light on Yoga

BKS Iyengar

Light on Life

BKS Iyengar

Yoga: Awakening the Inner Body

Donald Moyer

Be Here Now

Baba Ram Dass

Vital Yoga: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers

Meta Chaya Hirschl

Anatomy of Hatha Yoga

H. David Coulter

Better Balance For Life

Carol Clements

Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

Katy Bowman

Online resources:

Yoga International – this is a paid subscription to a wonderful resource for yoga teachers and students. Many recorded meditations and classes, and articles.

Himalayan Institute – also a paid subscription, this is the website of the Himalayan Institute in Bethany, PA. I’ve been to many wonderful retreats there over the years, and they have a tremendous library of articles and recorded lectures, classes, and meditations.

Wikipedia

YouTube:

Especially:

Paula Lay: YoginiMelbourne

Laura Goellner: Lauragyoga

Coral Brown: She has many short videos with Yoga Journal.

All of my teachers and their teachers, their teacher’s teachers, and so on.

Including:

Sandra Anderson. Senior faculty member and resident, Himalayan Institute

Sheri Friedrichsen. Faculty member and facilitator, Himalayan Institute

Rolf Slovik, President and Spiritual Director of the Himalayan Institute

Luke Ketterhagan: Amazing teacher who leads retreats at Himalayan Institute

Omni Kitts: Owner and master teacher at Yoga Mechanics in Montclair, NJ

I could go on, and I would, but the list is very long. These are the ones I referred to most in preparing for my Zoom classes and these blogs.

Butterfly drawing at bottom of photograph is by Cary Thorp Brown.