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| Santosha.com's Shopper's Guide to Books on Yoga
Books by Georg Feuerstein
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The Deeper Dimension of Yoga
by Georg Feuerstein
Here is a comprehensive survey of the full breadth and depth of the 5,000-year-old Yoga tradition, emphasizing its potent philosophy and spiritual vision. Georg Feuerstein demonstrates that Yoga is much more than a system of physical exercises–it is a profound path of self-transformation that encompasses a range of teachings, practices, and sacred texts that can help us cultivate wisdom, balance, and inner freedom, as well as physical health.
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The Shambhala Guide to Yoga
by Georg Feuerstein
This overview of the essentials of Yoga is meant to both broaden and deepen the understanding of beginning students. It covers all the basic elements of this ancient discipline and philosophy of India and includes newly translated excerpts from the scriptures...
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Teachings of Yoga
Georg Feuerstein, editor
An introductory anthology to the wide range of knowledge and wisdom of the Yoga tradition-edited, with many new translations, by the leading writer on Yoga today.
Millions of Americans have taken up the practice of Yoga as a way of reducing stress, increasing flexibility, and improving overall health. But Yoga is more than a physical discipline - it is a-four-thousand-year-old tradition with a rich philosophical and spiritual heritage. The readings in this book offer an inspirational introduction to this vast treasury of literature...
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The Essence of Yoga
by Georg Feuerstein, Jeanine Miller
Georg Feuerstein, one of the world's foremost scholars of yoga, and Jeanine Miller, long recognized for her insightful commentaries on the RgVeda, here pool their considerable talents in a look at the development of yogic thought across the ages and its similarities with the Christian mysticism of Meister Eckhart. Two of their essays included here-one concerning the essence of yoga and the other looking at the meaning of suffering in yoga-have long been singled out by indologists for correcting prevalent misconceptions and providing a conceptual framework for many of the subsequent studies in that field...
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The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga
by Georg Feuerstein
Here is an authentic portrayal of a rich and complex spiritual tradition of India. The over two thousand entries cover Yoga's history, its many approaches, schools, teachers, scriptures, as well as its technical terminology. The book is arranged and written in a manner that will inform rather than overwhelm the lay reader, while at the same time offering valuable references for the professional researcher and the historian of religion...
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The Philosophy of Classical Yoga
by Georg Feuerstein
This is the first comprehensive and systematic analytical study of the major philosophical concepts of classical yoga. The book consists of a series of detailed discussions of the key concepts used by Pata-jali in his Yoga-Sutra to describe and explain the enigma of human existence and to point a way beyond the perpetual motion of the wheel of becoming. Feuerstein's study differs from previous ones in that it seeks to free Pata-jali's aphoristic statements from the accretions of later interpretations; instead, the author places the Sutra in its original context and sees it as the source of the whole edifice of classical yoga and not just as a summary of previous developments...
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The Yoga Tradition: History, Religion, Philosophy and Practice
by Georg Feuerstein
From the foremost living authority on Yoga comes the most comprehensive and reliable treatment of the subject available today. This is a work of impeccable scholarship by a person who has dedicated his life to the understanding and practice of yoga. The book offers a complete overview of every Yogic tradition, from the familiar to the lesser-known forms. It also covers all aspects of Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina Yoga, including history, philosophy, literature, psychology and practice...
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The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation and Commentary
by Georg Feuerstein
Approximately two thousand years old, The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali is the landmark scripture on classical yoga. In this book the author provides a faithful and informed rendering of the aphorisms (sutras) of Patanjali with a word-by-word analysis...
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Yoga Gems: A Treasury of Practical and Spiritual Wisdom from Ancient and Modern Masters
by Georg Feuerstein, editor
For the millions of Americans who now practice yoga regularly, here is the perfect introduction to the rich philosophical and spiritual tradition behind the exercises.
George Feuerstein has drawn short, memorable quotations from the key texts of this five-thousand-year-old legacy, with an emphasis on the wisdom of modern yoga masters.The quotations have been selected and arranged to address the needs of yoga practitioners in the twenty-first century...
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