Hatha Yoga Pradipika, The
The classic manual on Hatha Yoga. Contains the original Sanskrit, a new \ English translation, and photographs of all the asanas.
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Learn about: Chakras Kundalini Yoga Hatha Yoga Asanas Pranayama Mudras Bandhas Meditation Shakti Nadis Neti Bindu Siddhis Over the last half millennium, one book has established itself as the classic work on Hatha Yoga the book you are holding in your hands. An Indian yogi named Svatmarama wrote the Hatha Yoga Pradipika in the fifteenth century C.E. Drawing on his own experience and older works now lost, he wrote this book for the student of Yoga. He wrote this book for you. Contains the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and photographs of all the asanas. Woodstock Times There is a certain magic at work here as if Svatmarama has projected himself through time, expressing himself through Akers.
Eight Sample Verses:\ Yoga succeeds by these six: enthusiasm, openness, courage, knowledge of the\ truth, determination, and solitude.\ \ Success is achieved neither by wearing the right clothes nor by talking about\ it. Practice alone brings success. This is the truth, without a doubt.\ \ When the breath is unsteady, the mind is unsteady. When the breath is steady,\ the mind is steady, and the yogi becomes steady. Therefore one should\ restrain the breath.\ As salt and water become one when mixed, so the unity of self and mind is\ called samadhi.\ He who binds the breath, binds the mind. He who binds the mind, binds the\ breath.\ Center the self in space and space in the self. Make everything space, then\ don’t think of anything.\ Empty within, empty without, empty like a pot in space. Full within, full\ without, full like a pot in the ocean.\ Don’t think of external things and don’t think of internal things. Abandon\ all thoughts, then don’t think of anything.\
Introduction Asanas Pranayama Mudras Samadhi
\ Christophe Mouze"A new, crisp, no-nonsense translation of this great classic on the practice of Hatha Yoga. . . . If one, like me, holds that the work of the translator is to be as discreet as possible, then this very faithful translation is probably the best available. . . . The publisher, YogaVidya.com, also produces a version of the Gheranda Samhita, and, I am told, is working on the Shiva Samhita. Serious Yoga students watch out-these are serious translations of serious classics."\ —Online Yoga Magazine\ \ \ \ \ IndologyBeautifully printed and translated. Wonderful pictures, too.\ \ \ Kalamazoo GazetteWritten over five-hundred years ago, the text is considered by many a seminal work on the practice of Hatha Yoga.\ \ \ \ \ Midwest Book ReviewThis faithful reproduction is an impressive and highly recommended reference for students and devoted practitioners of Hatha Yoga.\ \ \ \ \ Woodstock TimesThere is a certain magic at work here—as if Svatmarama has projected himself through time, expressing himself through Akers.\ \ \ \ \ Yoga Site"This lively and lucid translation includes the original Sanskrit. It is a must-have for any serious student or teacher."\ \
