The Path of Modern Yoga
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The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice is a 2016 history of the modern practice of postural yoga by the yoga scholar Elliott Goldberg. It focuses in detail on eleven pi
Cover of 1st edition, showing B. K. S. Iyengar in Natarajasana
The book begins with 5 chapters on Yogendra, a pioneer of yoga as exercise.
The book devotes 7 of its 35 chapters to the yoga guru B. K. S. Iyengar.
Jogapradipika 22 Bhadragorakhasana
Natarajasana
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Natarajasana, Lord of the Dance Pose or Dancer Pose is a standing, balancing, back-bending asana in modern yoga as exercise. It is derived from a pose in the classical Indian dance form Bharatnatyam,
The Path of Modern Yoga
…The Path of Modern Yoga Cover of 1st edition, showing B. K. S. Iyengar in Natarajasana Author Elliott Goldberg Subject Modern yoga Genre Social history Publisher Inner Traditions Publication date 2016 Pages 495 OCLC 991434887 The Path of…
Natarajasana, Lord of the Dance Pose
10th century Shiva as Nataraja, the lord of the dance. Chola dynasty
13th century dance mudras on Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram's eastern gopuram
Variation with both hands grasping the raised foot