Contents
Foreword by Karl Baier, Ph.D. Acknowledgments
PART I
Divesting Yoga of the Sacred
Yogic Physical Culture and Health Cure
Shri Yogendra Rejecting the Role of Yoga Guru
Shri Yogendra Creating the Profession of Yoga Teacher: The Yoga Class
Shri Yogendra Making Yoga into Calisthenics
Shri Yogendra Taking Practical Yoga to the New World: Hatha Yoga in America
Shri Yogendra Making Yoga Gentle
Swami Kuvafayananda Claiming Yoga Is Science "7 Swami Kuvalayananda Promoting Yoga as Health Cure: A Yoga Journal and Yoga Institute 88
O Swami Kuvalayananda 100 Investigating the Yogic Phenomena: Yoga Research
Q Swami Kuvalayananda Standing Up Straight: Yoga and Good Posture 110
Q Swami Kuvalayananda Youthifying the Spine: Yoga and Chiropractic _ I 125
"j-| K.V.Iyer Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga 142
S. Sundaram 12 Publishing a Yoga Manual 152
S. Sundaram 13 Meditating on the Body in Yoga 168
PART II
Making Yoga Dynamic
The Sun Salutations as Yogic Exercise
Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi 14 Reviving Surya Namaskar >> 180
Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi 15 Promoting Surya Namaskar as Health Cure and Strengthening Exercise 189
Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi 16 Making Surya Namaskar a Part of Physical Education: Mass Exercise 197
T. Krishnamacharya Keeping the Flame: Yoga at the Palace 208 T. Krishnamacharya 18 Incorporating Contortion into Yoga 223
"1 9 T' Krishnamacharya Infusing Yoga with Surya Namaskar: Yoga as Performance 234
2Q K.v.lyer Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga at the Palace 249
2"| K.V.Iyer Presenting Surya Namaskar as Stretching Exercise 262
Louise Morgan 22 Making Surya Namaskar into an Elixir for Western Women 275
Louise Morgan 23 Pointing the Way to Health through Surya Namaskar 285
Louise Morgan 24 Becoming Aware of the Body in Surya Namaskar 295
Apa Pant 25 Making Surya Namaskar into a Meditation 305
Swami Sivananda 26 ^ Using Surya Namaskar as a Warm-up Exercise for Yoga 320
PART III
Making Yoga Sacred Again
Yogic Embodied Spirituality
Indra Devi 27 Becoming a Western, Female Yoga Teacher 338
Indra Devi 28 Treating Anxiety with Yoga 349 OQ B. K. S. Iyengar Enduring Cruelty: A Yoga Student
B. K. S. Iyengar 30 Making Yoga Fierce: A Yoga Teacher
B. K. S. Iyengar 31 Making Yoga All-Encompassing
32 ^ ^ ^ Iyengar Making Yoga Precise
33 B ^ ^ Iyengar Spiritualizing the Domain of Acrobatics: Asana Practice as the Eight-Limbed Path
^4 B. K. S. Iyengar Making Asana Practice into a Meditation of Insight
35 B ^ ^ Iyengar i. Teaching^&wz^ as Embodied Spirituality
Notes Bibliography Index