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

yoga

TIMELINE
Pranot-!
thana

Pashu-!
pat !

?!

Seals

2900 BCE!

Vedic!
Tapasya

1200!
BCE

Upani-!
shads

700 BCE!
-200 CE !

Hatha!
Yoga

1100!
CE!

Mo-!
dern!
Yoga

1893!
CE

Vasco
de
Gama!
Lands in India: 1498!

sets of 84 poses from the early 1800s

Mens sana in corpore sano

Frederick
Jahn
1778-1852

Pehr
Ling

1776-1839

Gustav
Zander

1835-1920

odern Fitness or Physical

Culture

Late

th
18

Century

Delsartism
Francois Delsartes (1811-1871)
training system became a proto-yoga
fad populated mostly by women

Deslartes movements
and poses, late 1880s

Early 1900s The Theosophist leader, Katherine

Tingley, combined Yoga with Activism

She lead Protests

against WW I
She gave free
meals to the
needy

She organized an International

Peace Conference

She formed The Raja Yoga Academy

to teach Children in Point Loma, CA

Tingley

The Great Eugen Sandow in 1903.mp4

Eugen Sandow
(1867 - 1925)
promoted the perfect
Physique

Swami Vivekananda
A Napoleonic Supersaint
Built on Delsartisms Popularity and
Introduced Yoga

The Brahmo Samaj

Ram Mohan
Roy
1774-1833

Kesub
Chandra Sen
1838-1884

Protrap C.
Majumdar
1840-1905

Swami
Vivekananda
1863-1902

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa recognized

Vivekanandas potential, made him a disciple,
and gave him mystic initiation

He!
Brought the !
Yoga Sutra !
Into !
Modern !
Practice

First Public Yoga Hatha Yoga Teaching In the U.S.A.

Swami Abhedananda

Sara Farmer

Abhedananda Vivekananda

Nivedita

Sarah Bull

He welcomed women to yoga and explaining it

in terms of physics, evolution, and self-culture

Pierre Bernard
Sylvias Hamati &
Blanche DeVries

The Mature Oom: the

Clarkstown Country Club and
Tantra
TheCelebrative
Omnipotent
Oom

& The Tantrik Order of

America

Mollie Bagot Stacks

dance-Inspired

Stretch and Swing System

London,1925

Mollie
Stacks
Vinyasa
c. 1925

Legs in the Air

A Beautiful Seal

Swing Back

Cajzoran Ali came from France to

America
and taught Harmonial Hatha Yoga c. 1928

Krishnamacharyas
Vinyasa
c. 1932
Eka Pada Setu
Bandhasana

Urdhva Mukha
Svanasana

Halasana

the Hatha
Yoga
renaissance
of 1930s India
Kola Venkatesh Iyer

Bhavanrao Pant

Krishnamacharya

King Wadiyar IV

Bishnu Ghosh

Swami Sivananda

Rishikesh
Sivananda
Vishnu Devananda
& Satchitananda

Calcutta
Santa Cruz

Sri Yukteshwar
Yogananda &
Bishnu Ghosh

Lonavla

Pune

Sri Yogendra
Kuvalayananda
& B. K. S. Iyengar

Mysore
Krishnamacharya
Kola V. Iyer
& Pattabhi Jois

The Yoga Renaissance of Rishikesh, Kolkata, Mysore & N. of Mysore

Paramahansa Yogananda

Teaches Hatha Yoga

the bikram system, founded in the us, 1970

bikram
choudhury,
b. 1946

Bishnu
Ghosh,
1903-1970

jimmy
barkam

tony
sanchez
emmy cleaves

yoga competitions

Krishnamacharyas toured India with circus tricks spreading yoga propaganda

Poses from Bukh Gymnastics, c. 1920

Krishnamacharya taught 1930s Yogis

The !
Dand!
A Move from Indian Wrestling

Ritual !
Prostration

important
aKrishnamacharyas
s h t a n gAshtanga
i s Yoga
Jois And
!!

Krishna !

Norman Allen

Nancy Gilgoff

David Williams

Pattabhi Jois !
!

!!

1915 2009!
!

Tim Miller

Richard
Freeman

Chuck Miller,
!
Maty Ezraty

David Swenson

Beryl Birch

swami sivananda radha trains

with sivananda in 1956-7

desikachar forms
kym,teaching
publisheshis
books,
viniyoga,
krishnamacharya
began
son , creates
desikachar,
in 1961
and teaches yoga to his children, mekhala and kausthub

The 1938 Filmof

B. K. S. Iyengar

in
Bellur
vinyasa
Krishnamachar
Sundararaja
practice
Iyengar
born 1918

Iyengars 1975 Principles of Alignment were Wholly New

Vishnu-Devananda !
and !
Iyengars Posework

Theos Bernard & B. K. S. Iyengar

This is
the
image
they
were
trying
to
avoid!
Both aestheticized & classicized posture, making yoga export ready

John Friend Simplified Iyengars Alignment System and Combined

Tantrik and Community Elements in his Anusara Yoga Movement

Dozens of female luminaries

teach Iyengars style

lasater

sullivan

dunn

scarvelli

holleman

walden

iyengar

gudmestad

vernon

benagh

miller

farmer

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
Indra Devi trained
with
baba & kuvalayananda

Krishnamacharya in 1938

Nischala Joy Devi has

made
improving
health
nischala
joy devi, devotee
of swami
hersatchitananda
mission

she makes exuberance and

human evolution primary

Seane Corn exemplifies the

exoteric and activist spirit of
Modern Western Yoga

TIMELINE
AGAIN
Prano-!
Tana

Pashu-!
Pat !
Seal

Vedic!
Kesins

2900 !
BCE

1200!
BCE

Upani-!
shads

800BCE!
-200 CE

Hatha!
Yoga

Mo-!
dern!
Yoga

1200!
CE

1893!
CE

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