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For an in-depth study of the spiritual aphorisms of the famous third-century yogi Patañjali, check out our selections from Chip Hartranft’s translation and commentary.

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elcome to Shambhala’s Yoga Page!

This section of our website offers you a broad sampling our yoga books—from guides for general health to the deep philosophical approaches of the greatest minds who’ve taught about yoga and meditation. Here you will find a list of all our books on yoga and information about how to order them. We’ve included a selection of inspiring quotations from ancient and modern yoga masters to offer a sampling of the broad range of wisdom within the yoga tradition.

What Is Yoga?

If you have questions about what yoga’s all about, look at Yoga Basics, which includes the following sections offering general information about yoga from Georg Feuerstein:

Spiritual Path

For more information about yoga as a spiritual path, have a look at these selections, also from Georg Feuerstein:

Personal Practice

For thoughts on how to develop and cultivate your personal practice, these are from Esther Myers and B. K. S. Iyengar, respectively:

Yoga of Breath: Pranayama

And for introductory readings about yogic breathing practices, see these writings from Richard Rosen:

Check out our periodically changing asana feature. We’ve highlighted sequences of poses or parts of sequences, with photos and instructions, from our how-to books.

We hope you enjoy browsing through this selection from our treasure of yoga wisdom books!

View the featured asana sequence: Deep Relaxation: Letting Go

“Smile with the flower and the green grass. Play with the butterflies, birds, and deer. Shake hands with the shrubs, ferns, and twigs of trees. Talk to the rainbow, wind, stars, and the sun. Converse with the running brooks and the waves of the sea. Speak with the walking-stick. Develop friendship with all your neighbors, dogs, cats, cows, human beings, trees, flowers, etc. Then you will have a wide, perfect, rich, full life. You will realize oneness or unity of life. This can be hardly described in words. You will have to feel this yourself.”

—Swami Sivananda

Selected from Teachings of Yoga