YOGA READING LIST.
Books that I’ve found especially informative over the years for the study of yoga (secondary sources only). To make this list the book must be relatively inexpensive and readily available.
KEY (recommended for): *beginner / **intermediate / ***advanced
Georg Feuerstein
The Path of Yoga* The Deeper Dimension of Yoga*
Teachings of Yoga* Yoga Gems*
The Yoga Tradition** Tantra: The Path of Ecstacy**
Mark Singleton
Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice**
Gurus of Modern Yoga** (edited along with Ellen Goldberg)
Roots of Yoga*** (translated and edited with James Mallinson)
Henry Alper, ed. Mantra**
Mikel Burley. Hatha-Yoga**
Roberto Calasso.
Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India*
Ardor (on the Vedas)*
Peter Connolly. A Students’s Guide to the History and Philosophy of Yoga*
Clare Dederer. Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses*
Alain de Botton. Religion for Atheists*
Elizabeth de Michelis. The History of Modern Yoga***
Mark Dyczkowski. The Doctrines of Vibration: An Analysis ... of Kashmir Shaivism***
Mircea Eliade. Yoga: Immortality and Freedom***
Anya Foxen. Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda*
Richard Freeman. The Mirror of Yoga*
Michelle Goldberg. The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi ...*
Elliott Goldberg. The Path of Modern Yoga*
Andrea Jain. Selling Yoga*
Shyam Sundar Goswami. Laya Yoga: An Advanced Method of Concentration**
David Lorenzen and Adrian Munoz, eds. Yogi Heroes and Poets**
Carl Olsen. Indian Asceticism**
Andre Padoux.
Vac: The Concept of the Word In ... Hindu Tantras***
The Hindu Tantric World**
Leigh Eric Schmidt. Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock*
Eric Sharpe. The Universal Gita*
Lillian Silburn. Kundalini: Energy of the Depths***
Norman Sjoman. The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace.*
Lewis Thompson. Mirror to the Light*
David Gordon White.
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India***
The Yoga Sutra: A Biography**
John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon). The Serpent Power***
Books that I’ve found especially informative over the years for the study of yoga (secondary sources only). To make this list the book must be relatively inexpensive and readily available.
KEY (recommended for): *beginner / **intermediate / ***advanced
Georg Feuerstein
The Path of Yoga* The Deeper Dimension of Yoga*
Teachings of Yoga* Yoga Gems*
The Yoga Tradition** Tantra: The Path of Ecstacy**
Mark Singleton
Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice**
Gurus of Modern Yoga** (edited along with Ellen Goldberg)
Roots of Yoga*** (translated and edited with James Mallinson)
Henry Alper, ed. Mantra**
Mikel Burley. Hatha-Yoga**
Roberto Calasso.
Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India*
Ardor (on the Vedas)*
Peter Connolly. A Students’s Guide to the History and Philosophy of Yoga*
Clare Dederer. Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses*
Alain de Botton. Religion for Atheists*
Elizabeth de Michelis. The History of Modern Yoga***
Mark Dyczkowski. The Doctrines of Vibration: An Analysis ... of Kashmir Shaivism***
Mircea Eliade. Yoga: Immortality and Freedom***
Anya Foxen. Biography of a Yogi: Paramahansa Yogananda*
Richard Freeman. The Mirror of Yoga*
Michelle Goldberg. The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi ...*
Elliott Goldberg. The Path of Modern Yoga*
Andrea Jain. Selling Yoga*
Shyam Sundar Goswami. Laya Yoga: An Advanced Method of Concentration**
David Lorenzen and Adrian Munoz, eds. Yogi Heroes and Poets**
Carl Olsen. Indian Asceticism**
Andre Padoux.
Vac: The Concept of the Word In ... Hindu Tantras***
The Hindu Tantric World**
Leigh Eric Schmidt. Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock*
Eric Sharpe. The Universal Gita*
Lillian Silburn. Kundalini: Energy of the Depths***
Norman Sjoman. The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace.*
Lewis Thompson. Mirror to the Light*
David Gordon White.
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India***
The Yoga Sutra: A Biography**
John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon). The Serpent Power***
