Resources

Best Yoga and Yoga-related Books:  

 

• Every Woman’s Yoga, by Jaime Stover Schmitt

 

• Radical Healing, by Rudolph Ballentine, M.D.

 

• Science of Breath, Swami Rama, Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., & Allan Hymes, M.D.

 

• Kundalini Vidya: The Science of Spiritual Transformation, Joan Shivarpita Harrigan

 

• Living with the Himalayan Masters, Swami Rama

 

• The Himalayan Masters: A Living Tradition, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

 

• Lectures on Yoga, Swami Rama

 

• Pathless Path: God Grace Guru, Charles Crenshaw

 

A Fascinating Journal:

 

• The Journal of Authentic Movement and Somatic Inquiry, www.authenticmovementjournal.com

 

Best Yoga Books for Beginning Practitioners:

 

• Joints & Glands Exercises, Swami Rama

 

• Yoga: Mastering the Basics, Sandra Anderson and Rolf Sovik

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• Every Woman’s Yoga, by Jaime Stover Schmitt

 

• How to Use Yoga, by Mira Mehta

 

• Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness, by Erich Schiffmann

 

Best Yoga Sutras:

 

• The Secret of the Yoga Sutra: Samadhi Pada, by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait Ph.D.

 

• Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali: Containing His Yoga Aphorisms with Vyasa's Commentary in Sanskrit and a Translation with Annotations Including Many Suggestions for the Practice of Yoga, by Swami Hariharananda Aranya and P. N. Mukherji

 

• Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali With the Exposition of Vyasa: A Translation and Commentary, by Pandit Usharbudh Arya

 

• How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood

 

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Swami Satchidananda

 

• The Yoga Sutra Workbook: The Certainty of Freedom, by Vyaas Houston and Nicolai Bachman

 

Best Bhagavad Gitas:

 

• The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics), by Anonymous and Juan Mascaro

 

• Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God, by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood

 

• The Bhagavad Gita with the Commentary of Sri Sankaracharya, Sri Sankaracharya

 

• Perennial Psychology of the Bhagavad-Gita, by Swami Rama

 

Classical Yoga Practice Reference Books:

 

• Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar

 

• The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga, by Swami Vishnu-devananda

 

• Hatha Yoga Pradipika, by Swami Muktibodhananda

 

• A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya, Swami Satyananda Saraswati

 

Links to Other Resources:

 

• Himalayan Institute, www.himalayaninstitute.org

 

• Traditional Yoga and Meditation of the Himalayan Masters, www.swamij.com

 

• Pantanjali Kundalini Yoga Care, www.kundalinicare.com

 

• American Sanskrit Institute, www.americansanskrit.com

 

• Authentic Movement Blog, www.authenticmovementcommunity.org

 

• Inner Peace Yoga Center, www.innerpeaceyoga.com​