A closer look at the development of Restorative Yoga — tracing the influence of supported āsana, B.K.S. Iyengar and Judith Hanson Lasater on contemporary practice.
A closer look at T. Krishnamacharya — the influential Indian yoga teacher whose evolving approach helped shape several major forms of modern yoga.
A closer look at the history of modern yoga — exploring how older Indian traditions met new ideas, physical culture and influential teachers to shape modern practice.
A closer look at Haṭha Yoga — exploring its historical development, distinctive practices and how its meaning differs from the modern yoga class that often carries its name.
A closer look at yoga in the Bhagavad Gītā — a text in which action, knowledge, devotion and disciplined practice reveal a much broader understanding of yoga.
A closer look at dhāraṇā, dhyāna and samādhi — the final three limbs of Patañjali’s eight-limbed yoga and their relationship with attention, meditation and absorption.
A closer look at yama and niyama — the ethical restraints and observances that appear before āsana in Patañjali’s eight-limbed framework.
A closer look at Patañjali’s eight limbs of yoga — a framework extending far beyond posture into ethics, breath, attention, meditation and samādhi.
A closer look at the mind in Classical Yoga — exploring citta, vṛtti and Patañjali’s invitation to examine our relationship with changing mental experience.
A closer look at what yoga means beyond physical posture — exploring a tradition shaped by different texts, practices, philosophies and understandings across time.
