Yoga Makaranda
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Yoga Makaranda (Sanskrit: योग मकरन्द), meaning "Essence of Yoga", is a 1934 book on hatha yoga by the influential pioneer of yoga as exercise, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. Most of the text is a description of 42 asanas accompanied by 95 photographs of Krishnamacharya and his students executing the poses. There is a brief account of practices other than asanas, which form just one of the eight limbs of classical yoga, that Krishnamacharya "did not instruct his students to practice".[1]
Author | Tirumalai Krishnamacharya |
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Country | India |
Language | Kannada |
Subject | Modern yoga |
Genre | Instruction manual |
Publication date | 1934 |
Published in English | 2006, 2011 |
The yoga scholar Mark Singleton notes that the book is almost legendary among Pattabhi Jois's students, though "very few have actually seen it".[2] Singleton notes, too, that the book was "experimental".[3] The yoga scholar Norman Sjoman criticises the book's "padded academic bibliography" full of irrelevant works, and the perfunctory and ill-informed coverage of yoga practices other than asanas,[4] while another yoga scholar, Elliott Goldberg, comments that the photographs serve to demystify the asanas of their spiritual content,[5] and that Krishnamacharya was falsely claiming an ancient origin for his dynamic vinyasa system of yoga.[6]