3.5 · Yoga as Awareness

Body & Energy · 3.5

My hierarchy says "yoga as awareness, not fitness." These are the books that treat it that way.

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Light on Yoga

B.K.S. Iyengar

The standard reference. Asana with precision and sequencing.

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The Heart of Yoga

T.K.V. Desikachar

Yoga adapted to the person, not the person to the yoga. The philosophy that separates practice from performance.

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

(Satchidananda translation)

The philosophical root under all of it. Four short books of aphorisms; a lifetime of commentary.

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