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.