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Author: Claude Bragdon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-08
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 1351347993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Account of the origins, history and practice of Yoga from the viewpoint of someone who is learned, but is not himself a practicioner.
Author: Claude Fayette Bragdon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-02-04
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781138563988
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Account of the origins, history and practice of Yoga from the viewpoint of someone who is learned, but is not himself a practicioner.
Author: Claude Fayette Bragdon
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction to Yoga is not a "How-To" Yoga book. With insightful prose, Bragdon offers an introduction (first published in 1933), to the philosophy of yoga as an aid to expanding the human consciousness. From mastering the art of concentration to finding new depth in sexuality, this is a frank, perceptive call to rethink how we live our lives in the modern world. Still relevant today it explores the true search for "meaning" in the spiritualism of Yoga. From An Introduction to Yoga"This I discovered to be Yoga's "secret". . . a secret which is incommunicable: each must discover it for himself. But the process is communicable...................................For there are many in the world today who find themselves at an impasse. Materialistic science, having destroyed in them the faith which sustained their forefathers, and the inspiration by which they were fired, gives nothing in its place.They long to experience the inner life of the spirit, but mere vague aspiration gets them nowhere; what they need is something in the nature of a technique. Yoga supplies that need."
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-05-26
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781720343547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Yoga is much more than just a workout. It's a combination of components that can transform your health on many different levels. The lectures in this book were delivered at the 32nd Anniversary of the Theosophical Society held at Benares, India in 1907, and they are intended to give the reader an outline of Yoga. These lectures forms the basis for a deeper study of the teaching of Yoga in general, containing the essentials to be considered throughout the different stages of living and practice. The author, Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933) - was a British writer and activist. President of the Theosophical Society, she was also involved in the cause of women's rights. "An Introduction to Yoga" was the way in which she presented the idea of Yoga to western public in 1908. This book addresses the following topics and many of these were passed on from ancient works. - The Nature of Yoga - What is consciousness and Divinity? - Yoga as one of the six Indian schools of Philosophy. - Yoga as an applied science. - The practice of yoga. (Not exactly as it's practiced today) - Discussion on diet, purifying of the body, concentration and meditation. - The 4 states of consciousness and the 5 stages of the mind. - The 3 gunas, the 5 functions of pain, and the 7 obstacles to yogic progress. Please note - as this book was written in early 19th century English, its readability is tolerable-taking into context the complex concepts under discussion. This book will be a great read to all interested in Yoga as a philosophy and is NOT intended to learn the reader yoga poses at home.
Author: Kristen C. Blinne
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1498584381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pop Culture Yoga: A Communication Remix was born out of a series of questions about the paradoxical nature of yoga: How do individuals and groups define yoga? What does it mean to “practice yoga,” and what does this practice involve? What are some of the most important principles, guidelines, or philosophical tenets of yoga that shape people’s definitions and practices? Who has the power and authority to define yoga? What are the limits, if any, of shared definitions of yoga? Kristen C. Blinne explores the myriad ways “yoga” is communicatively constructed and defined in and through popular culture in the United States. In doing so, Blinne offers insight into the many identity work processes in play in the construction of yoga categories, illuminating how individuals’ and groups’ words and actions represent practices of claiming—part of a complex communicative process centered around membership categorization—based on a range of authenticity discourses. Employing popular culture writing styles, Blinne ultimately contends that the majority of yoga styles practiced in the United States are remixes that can be classified as pop culture yoga, a distinct way of understanding this complex phenomenon.
Author: Claude Bragdon
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1596053895
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Silence and stillness have the effect of conserving all the bodily forces usually wasted in unnecessary speech and action. You become for the first time conscious of the rhythmic flow of life's forces, and are able to hear the faint music they make on the harp of the body. -from "Silence" One of the most extraordinary figures of the popular intellectualism of the early 20th century, Claude Bragdon was an architect and designer who turned his mathematically fueled artistic bent toward the metaphysical. Here, in wise, insightful prose, Bragdon offers an introduction-first published in 1943-to the philosophy of yoga as an aid to expanding the human consciousness. From mastering the art of concentration to finding new depth in sexuality, this is a frank, perceptive call to rethink how we live our lives in the modern world. Other works by Bragdon available from Cosimo Classics: The Eternal Poles, Four-Dimensional Vistas, Projective Ornament, The Beautiful Necessity, Architecture and Democracy, Episodes from An Unwritten History, and A Primer of Higher Space (The Fourth Dimension). American architect, stage designer, and writer CLAUDE FAYETTE BRAGDON (1866-1946) helped found the Rochester Architectural Club, in the city where he made his greatest mark as a building designer with structures including Rochester Central Station, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the First Universalist Church; he also designed Peterborough Bridge in Ontario. In later life, Bragdon worked on Broadway as scenic designer for 1930s productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and Hamlet, among others.
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
Published: 2019-02-20
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781797629285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These lectures, delivered at the 32nd Anniversary of the Theosophical Society held at Benares in 1907, are intended to give an outline of Yoga, in order to prepare the student to take up, for practical purposes, the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga.Annie Besant, née Wood (1847 - 1933),is a former British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule.
Author: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 1234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Annie Wood Besant
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
Published: 2004-09
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781595402004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - These lectures [FN#1: Delivered at the 32nd Anniversary of the Theosophical Society held at Benares, on Dec. 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th, 1907.] are intended to give an outline of Yoga, in order to prepare the student to take up, for practical purposes, the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga. I have on hand, with my friend Bhagavan Das as collaborateur, a translation of these Sutras, with Vyasa's commentary, and a further commentary and elucidation written in the light of Theosophy. [FN#2: These have never been finished or printed.] To prepare the student for the mastering of that more difficult task, these lectures were designed; hence the many references to Patanjali. They may, however, also serve to give to the ordinary lay reader some idea of the Science of sciences, and perhaps to allure a few towards its study.
