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23 May '11
THE BAPTISTES: AMERICA’S FIRST FAMILY OF YOGA
Posted in Blog, Lectures by Eric Shaw
PLEASE CLICK THROUGH THE SLIDE SHOW BELOW This lecture was given for for Sherri Baptiste’s Yoga Teacher Training Program. She asked that I do some research on her family’s contribution to the practice–which is extensive. Her parents and extended family were yoga pioneers clear back to the Transcendentalist movement in the 1800s. This lecture covered [...]
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13 May '11
YOGA FLOWS IN HISTORY: A LECTURE FOR THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES
Posted in Lectures by Eric Shaw
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR IMAGES I gave this lecture on Wednesday, and just wanted to present the first 11 images in one post. Some of these have been published before, but many are new. I don’t have time to caption them, but they offer a silently interesting storyline about the early part of yoga’s [...]
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09 Mar '11
Nine Lectures on the Tradition
Posted in Lectures by Eric Shaw
Lectures by Eric Shaw, MARS, MASE, RYT Where Yoga Poses Come From: A Lecture with Archival Images A debate is raging about whether yoga postures are new or old. Does archeology tell us? Ancient texts? Evidence from Indian dance or gymnastics? Today, the poses are re-imagined based on ancient principles—and they are made up just [...]
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16 Feb '11
Women in Yoga: A Slideshow
Posted in Lectures by Eric Shaw
Women were ancient Tantric gurus, and yogini cults were important in India’s Middle Ages. Women were also “early adapters” of modern yoga when it bloomed in America in 1893. They gambled reputations in the Victorian era to help Swami Vivekananda and traveled to India to support its freedoms and become monks. They lead in innovation [...]
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07 Dec '10
An Exhaustive Iyengar Reference List
Posted in Lectures by Eric Shaw
I needed to make a slide on Iyengar’s works for a lecture. Though I searched widely, I could not find an Iyengar bibliography. Hence, I thoroughly researched and composed this catalog. I believe it is complete. If some reader knows otherwise, please inform me! An Exhaustive Bibliography of Books by B. K. S. [...]
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