Foreword by Karl Baier, Ph.D.

Acknowledgments

Part I
Divesting Yoga of the Sacred
Yogic Physical Culture and Health Cure

1 Shri Yogendra
Rejecting the Role of Yoga Guru

2 Shri Yogendra
Creating the Profession of Yoga Teacher: The Yoga Class

3 Shri Yogendra
Making Yoga into Calisthenics

4 Shri Yogendra
Taking Practical Yoga to the New World: Hatha Yoga in America

5 Shri Yogendra
Making Yoga Gentle

6 Swami Kuvalayananda
Claiming Yoga Is Science

7 Swami Kuvalayananda
Promoting Yoga as Health Cure: A Yoga Journal and Yoga Institute

8 Swami Kuvalayananda
Investigating the Yogic Phenomena: Yoga Research

9 Swami Kuvalayananda
Standing Up Straight: Yoga and Good Posture

10 Swami Kuvalayananda
Youthifying the Spine: Yoga and Chiropractic

11 K. V. Iyer
Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga

12 S. Sundaram
Publishing a Yoga Manual

13 S. Sundaram
Meditating on the Body in Yoga

Part II
Making Yoga Dynamic
The Sun Salutations as Yogic Exercise

14 Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi
Reviving Surya Namaskar

15 Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi
Promoting Surya Namaskar as Health Cure and Strengthening Exercise

16 Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi
Making Surya Namaskar a Part of Physical Education: Mass Exercise

17 T. Krishnamacharya
Keeping the Flame: Yoga at the Palace

18 T. Krishnamacharya
Incorporating Contortion into Yoga

19 T. Krishnamacharya
Infusing Yoga with Surya Namaskar: Yoga as Performance

20 K. V. Iyer
Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga at the Palace

21 K. V. Iyer
Presenting Surya Namaskar as Stretching Exercise

22 Louise Morgan
Making Surya Namaskar into an Elixir for Western Women

23 Louise Morgan
Pointing the Way to Health through Surya Namaskar

24 Louise Morgan
Becoming Aware of the Body in Surya Namaskar

25 Apa Pant
Making Surya Namaskar into a Meditation

26 Swami Sivananda
Using Surya Namaskar as a Warm-up Exercise for Yoga

Part III
Making Yoga Sacred Again
Yogic Embodied Spirituality

27 Indra Devi
Becoming a Western, Female Yoga Teacher

28 Indra Devi
Treating Anxiety with Yoga

29 B. K. S. Iyengar
Enduring Cruelty: A Yoga Student

30 B. K. S. Iyengar
Making Yoga Fierce: A Yoga Teacher

31 B. K. S. Iyengar
Making Yoga All-Encompassing

32 B. K. S. Iyengar
Making Yoga Precise

33 B. K. S. Iyengar
Spiritualizing the Domain of Acrobatics: Asana Practice as the Eight-Limbed Path

34 B. K. S. Iyengar
Making Asana Practice into a Meditation of Insight

35 B. K. S. Iyengar
Teaching Asana as Embodied Spirituality

Notes

Bibliography

Index

The Path of Modern Yoga

The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice