Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single
religion geographic region or teaching lineage. In fact over the centuries there have been
many yogas - yogas of battlefield warriors of itinerant minstrels and beggars of religious
reformers and of course the yogas of mind and body so popular today. Yoga in Practice is an
anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India greater Asia and
the West. This one-of-a-kind sourcebook features elegant translations of Hindu Buddhist Jain
and even Islamic yogic writings many of them being made available in English for the very
first time. Collected here are ancient colonial and modern texts reflecting a broad range of
genres from an early medical treatise in Sanskrit to Upanishadic verses on sacred sounds from
a Tibetan catechetical dialogue to funerary and devotional songs still sung in India today and
from a 1930s instructional guide by the grandfather of contemporary yoga to the private papers
of a pioneer of tantric yoga in America.
