Guest guest Posted November 29, 2000 Report Share Posted November 29, 2000 I just put an interesting little document up on the web:<br><br><a href=http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/pricomp.txt target=new>http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/pricomp.txt</a><br><br>I listed the postures in primary series as given in 5 different sources: Yoga Mala, Swenson's book, the Its Yoga manual, Lino's book and the booklet from Richard Freeman's video. I started this document a long time ago to help me learn the names of the postures. I started to notice that different people spelled them differently and that different books included or excluded different postures, so I went ahead and correlated them all just to see what came up. Some postures are spelled the same by everyone, some are spelled five different ways from five different sources. The rest have 2, 3, or 4 different spellings from the five different sources. I guess it is an inexact science translating between languages.<br><br>Anyway, I just thought it may be of interest to some of ya'll.<br><br>It is a plain text document and is listed on the yoga books page on my website. Also, I've been exploring a lot of books lately and have added a bunch to my list of yoga books at:<br><a href=http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/yogabook.htm target=new>http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/yogabook.htm</a><br><br>The newest really cool yoga book I've found is Eric Schiffman's: Yoga - The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness.<br><br>Also got a book on the Five Tibetans, which someone mentioned here a while back. <br><br>Waiting for John Scott's new Ashtanga book to be available on this side of the ocean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2000 Report Share Posted November 30, 2000 Wow, thank you. That was really helpful; I was wondering why I kept thinking Urdhva Padmasana should be called Utplatih. <br> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2000 Report Share Posted November 30, 2000 Hey just want to say that your comparison chart on series one documentation is great!<br>Really good reference.<br><br>On the subject of the Five Tibetans book there are some other interesting books on the subject of Tibetan yoga. What interests me on this subject is that, like Ashtanga, these forms of yoga emphasize movement & breath to bring up internal heat. <br> <br>Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path by W. Y. Evans-Wentz(Editor), Donald S., Jr. Lopez (Paperback - September 2000) <br><br>This is a reprint of Evans-Wentz deeply-flawed, but groundbreaking research. (Evans-Wentz was the first to attempt to translate & comment on the Tibetan Book of the Dead) In _Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines_ he outlines yogic methods that very much rely on breath and inner heat. An added bonus to this book is Lopez’s commentary that sheds some light on Evans-Wentz’s commitment to traditional yoga.<br><br>There is a new coffee-table book out called _The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple: Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet<br>by Ian A. Baker, et al. Hardcover (October 2000) <br><br>This book is really mindblowing! Surreal paintings detailing yoga postures and visual meditations. Many of these depictions show methods of raising inner heat (tummus) thru the body’s channels. Get this book today!<br><br>Anyhoo, keep up the good work... your web pages are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2000 Report Share Posted November 30, 2000 Thanks for your comments.<br><br>I looked up the Tibetan art book on Amazon. They even have images of some of the pages inside. (A new feature on Amazon) Looks very cool. I love that kind of art. A bit expensive for me right now though. Maybe I'll find it in a bookstore and have a closer look.<br><br>I read the Evans-Wentz books long ago. Still have a copy of Secret Doctrines and also the Mila-Repa book. I used to read tons of that type of stuff, but I usually had no idea what they were talking about. Asana practice is a more recent thing for me and that is what I'm finding interesting. I haven't looked at those books for awhile and maybe should have another look. I do remember reading (maybe in the Mila-Repa book) about some yogis in the Himalayas generating so much heat (just sitting in lotus) that they were drying out freezing wet sheets or something like that. I think it was like a test to see how much heat they could generate. I just now looked for that description in the books and did not find it. (Please let me know if you where that appears).<br><br>The Five Tibetans is a really interesting subject.<br>Except for the spinning, the exercises can be seen as small excerpts from Ashtanga yoga, practiced dynamically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2000 Report Share Posted November 30, 2000 Thanks for this great list! <br><br>You can find out more about John Scott's new book from yoga uk's online magazine:<br><br><a href=http://www.yogauk.com/YogaUK/index.html target=new>http://www.yogauk.com/YogaUK/index.html</a><br><br>They have a short review of the book there - not very in-depth, but you get an idea of what it's like. Guruji-approved, too, the book's introduction is written by Pattabhi Jois. You can order it from <a href=http://www.amazon.co.uk target=new>http://www.amazon.co.uk</a> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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