Yoga Transformed: From Patanjali to Modern Asana
A Two-Part Mettauniversity Ecourse, May 21 & 28, 2014 with Eric Shaw, MA.RS, MA.SE, MA.AS, E-RYT 500
1200!BCE
1100!CE!
1893!CE
!2900 BCE!
!?!
TIMELINE700 BCE!-200 CE !
Vedic!Tapasya
Upani-!shads
Pranot-!thana
Hatha!Yoga
Mo-!dern!Yoga
Pashu-!pat !
Seals
yoga
“Mens sana in corpore sano”
FrederickJahn
1778-1852
Pehr Ling
1776-1839
Gustav Zander
1835-1920
Modern Fitness or “Physical Culture”
Francois Delsarte’s (1811-1871) training system became a proto-yoga
fad populated mostly by women
DelsartismLate 18th Century
Tingley
She lead Protests against WW I
She organized an International Peace Conference
She formed The Raja Yoga Academy to teach Children in Point Loma, CA
Early 1900s The Theosophist leader, Katherine Tingley, combined Yoga with Activism
She gave free meals to the
needy
Kesub Chandra Sen 1838-1884
The Brahmo Samaj
Swami Vivekananda 1863-1902
Ram Mohan Roy
1774-1833
Protrap C. Majumdar 1840-1905
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa recognized Vivekananda’s potential, made him a disciple,
and gave him mystic initiation
Sara Farmer Abhedananda Vivekananda Nivedita Sarah Bull
He welcomed women to yoga and explaining it in terms of physics, evolution, and self-culture
The Mature Oom: the Clarkstown Country Club and
Celebrative TantraThe Omnipotent Oom & The Tantrik Order of
America
Pierre Bernard Sylvias Hamati & Blanche DeVries
Kola Venkatesh Iyer
Bishnu Ghosh
KrishnamacharyaBhavanrao Pant
Swami Sivananda
King Wadiyar IV
the Hatha Yoga
renaissance of 1930s India
Krishnamacharya Kola V. Iyer
& Pattabhi Jois
Calcutta
Pune
Rishikesh
Mysore
The Yoga Renaissance of Rishikesh, Kolkata, Mysore & N. of Mysore
Sri Yogendra Kuvalayananda
& B. K. S. Iyengar
Sivananda Vishnu Devananda & Satchitananda Sri Yukteshwar
Yogananda & Bishnu Ghosh Santa Cruz
Lonavla
the bikram system, founded in the us, 1970
emmy cleaves
bikram choudhury,
b. 1946
Bishnu Ghosh,
1903-1970
yoga competitions
jimmy barkam
tony sanchez
important ashtangis
Nancy Gilgoff
Richard Freeman
David Williams Norman Allen
Chuck Miller, Maty Ezraty
Beryl BirchDavid SwensonTim Miller
Jois And Krishnamacharya’s Ashtanga Yoga
!!!!!!
Krishna !!!!!!!!!
1915 – 2009!!!
Pattabhi Jois !!!
desikachar forms kym, publishes books, creates viniyoga, and teaches yoga to his children, mekhala and kausthub
krishnamacharya began teaching his son , desikachar, in 1961
vinyasapracticein
B. K. S. Iyengar The “1938 Film”of
Iyengar b o r n 1 9 1 8
Bellur SundararajaKrishnamachar
This is the
image they were trying
to avoid!
Both aestheticized & classicized posture, making yoga “export ready”
Theos Bernard & B. K. S. Iyengar
John Friend Simplified Iyengar’s Alignment System and Combined Tantrik and Community Elements in his Anusara Yoga Movement
Dozens of female luminaries teach Iyengar’s style
sullivan
scarvelli
iyengar
dunn
walden
benagh
holleman
vernongudmestad
miller farmer
lasater
Mahatma Gandhi used yoga to leverage Indian independence and his work remains our most powerful example of yoga-inspired activism
indra devi was taught by krishnamacharya, satya sai
baba & kuvalayanandaIndra Devi trained with
Krishnamacharya in 1938
nischala joy devi, devotee of swami satchitananda
Nischala Joy Devi has made improving health
her mission
Pashu-!Pat !Seal
1200!BCE
1200!CE
1893!CE
2900 !BCE
?
Upani-!shads
800BCE!-200 CE
Prano-!Tana
Hatha!Yoga
Mo-!dern!Yoga
AGAINTIMELINE
Vedic!Kesins