A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF YOGA, DANCE AND MARTIAL ARTS

  PLEASE SCROLL DOWN AND CLICK THROUGH THE IMAGE SLIDESHOW IN IT’S BIG WINDOW FORM. IT’S WORTH IT . . . DON’T MISS THE “NEXT” BUTTON!  IT’S IN SMALL TYPE JUST ABOVE THE FIRST IMAGE! Dance and martial arts have made meaty contributions to yoga history, philosophy, and posework. The 108 Karanas of the Dance [...]

ALPHA-I: A NEW MEDITATION METHOD

A couple friends, Eric Knouse and Patty Klauer, have been deeply involved in I.T. business their whole careers, designing webwork systems and mapping systems.  Eric, however, retreated from the world to pursue meditation for awhile and through some intervention that looks like divine from the outside, discovered a slew of concentration technologies that are new [...]

THE BAPTISTES: AMERICA’S FIRST FAMILY OF YOGA

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 [...]

THE AGNIS (THE FIRES) OF THE SUBTLE BODY

The agnis or “fires” of the energetic layers of the body (the koshas) are guided by our will and can serve desire or love. In turning them toward love, we ignite the subtle body, burn off our attachments and shine with the fire of letting go. Tags:  Eric Shaw Yoga, History of Yoga, Yoga Philosophy, [...]

YOGA FLOWS IN HISTORY: A LECTURE FOR THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES

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 [...]

Yoga: A Living History

Seven years of investigation and two years of writing . . . have produced 300 pages of carefully researched material on the East-West yoga conversation . . . revealing . . . its strange Asian origins, its conveyance to the West via the Greeks, its discussion by stray travelers in Europe’s Middle Ages, it’s day-to-day [...]

Kali the Trickster

Kali, I know that you know how to play tricks. You let anyone call you by any name they choose: The Magas call you Pharatara, Europeans call you God; Mughals and Pathans, Saiyids and Qazis all call you Khoda. Shaktas say you are their Shakti, Shaivas call you Shiva. Sauryas think you’re the sun, and [...]

THE YOGAWOMAN MOVIE: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN YOGA

See the article on the YogaWoman Webpage Here.

The Timeless Tradition of Naked Yoga, Common Ground Magazine, 1/10

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An Exhaustive Iyengar Reference List

                              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 made this catalog.  I believe it is complete.  If some reader knows otherwise, please inform [...]

Yoga Journal Review of Stretch by Neal Pollack, Yoga Journal, 10/10

35 Moments: A Timeline of Yoga History, Yoga Journal, 9/10

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Lazy Man’s Levitation: Why We Say Yes to Yoga On a Rope, Common Ground Magazine, 9/10

Magana Baptiste and the Performance of Yoga, Common Ground Magazine, 12/09

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Beautiful Belly, Beautiful Mind, Common Ground Magazine, 11/09

Have some Pop Yoga with that Cafe Au Lait? YogaHub, 6/06

This article was published in 2006. Click here to read it on YogaHub.