A history of yoga

The practice of yoga is now widespread throughout the world, yet surprisingly surprisingly little is known of its history. A history of yoga for the general reader - clear and readable, without the confusing complexity of the academic tract and yet with its teeth in the facts - has long been needed to serve the ever-growing yoga public in the West. In writing this book, Vivian Worthington, a yoga teacher of many years' standing and a former Secretary General of the British Wheel of Yoga, has supplied just that. The book traces the development of yoga from before the Vedic age, through Hinduism and Buddhism, in tantrism and zen, in Tibet, and in its more recent development of hatha yoga. It provides synopses of yoga's major classics and profiles some of its greatest exponents. As the first history to be published, the book puts yoga into historical perspective and will be indispensable to a study of this great life science. - Back cover.… (more)