Best Yoga books ever

As we all know, yoga is thousands year old tradition, where knowledge were delivered from teacher to pupil, when he was ready to handle it, without harming himself or others. The speed of modern life set to us new challenges; most of us simply can’t afford such luxury as solitude and service to your own Guru. As one Buddhist Lama said – it is natural, when monk reaches Nirvana, he dedicated his life to it, he shouldn’t be praised for it, on a contrary, when secular man reaches ultimate liberation, in spite of his career, family relationships and life in society, he the one, who should be praised and exposed as example for others.
Let’s follow his example, let’s get our lives in order with Yoga tradition, let’s execute one of Niyamas – svadhyaya, or self study, which includes study of sacral texts. The problem is vast multitude of books on yoga, unfortunately some of them are very doubtful. Thus, here are presented my favorite books on yoga, which I recommend to everyone. The books’ content is tested on me and it works If you have good book, which should be in this list, send me its details and if our opinions will match, I’ll post it here
ॐ Shanti
Govind

	APMB (Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha) by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Remarkable book on practical yoga techniques, it is essential to start doing yoga. Concise, informative, nothing excess.
	The Wisdom of Yoga, A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living by Stephen Cope. My favorite comments on Yoga Sutras Patanjali. The book is written in accessible language, traditionally boring comments turns to fascinating story, where Yoga philosophy is explained on true examples.
	Yoga – The Art of Communication by Victor Boiko. This book is best yoga book in Russian. This is result of thorough literature research tested on author’s huge personal experience. Very practical, without any mysticism.

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I just wanted to add to this excellent list one suggestion.. an that is “Yoga Chudamani Upanishads” by Swami Satyadharma. Those are short guidelines from “headspring”, very simple, but at the same time deep and give good navigation both about the philosophic background and daily life actions.

March 4th, 2010

Ance Karnupa

good work Govind. I don’t have any to add at this time. Vasant

February 24th, 2010

Vasant