Illuminating Indian Classical Dances Through Yoga
Author: Shovana Narayan
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9788182904750
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YOGA AND ODISSI DANCE
Author: Dr. Rashmi Rekha Das , Co-author: Dr. Biswajit Dash
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2024-07-20
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the synergy between yoga and dance, enhancing physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. It shows how yoga improves dancers' strength, flexibility, and focus, while dance adds creativity and fluidity to yoga. The spiritual essence of Odissi dance and the therapeutic benefits of both disciplines are also examined. Readers will discover how these practices promote a balanced, fulfilling life.
A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance
Author: Roxanne Kamayani Gupta
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 1594775273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe yoga and classical dance traditions of India have been inextricably entwined for millennia. The exacting hand gestures, postures and movements of Indian classical dance can only be achieved through yogic concentration. Conversely, the esthetics, symmetry, and dynamism of dance enhance the practice of yoga. These two traditions, so complementary and essential to one another, are united and explicated for the first time in A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance. Twenty-five years ago Roxanne Kamayani Gupta embarked on a journey of dance and yoga, yearning to unlock their mysteries and discover their common origins. As a twenty-year-old student from America she was miraculously and mysteriously absorbed into Indian culture, became a Hindu, and began an odyssey so unusual and unique that the reader will be enchanted by its telling. Choosing the path of the dancer, Roxanne Gupta accomplished what no Western woman had done before: being accepted and trained by Indian masters and then performing in the Indian classical traditions--from the palaces of maharajas to the arts festivals of Europe and America--while at the same time achieving a doctorate in the anthropology of religion and being initiated into a number of yogic traditions. Having mastered the classical form of Kuchipudi dance and studied with teachers of the hatha and kriya yoga traditions, she brings together these two great streams of consciousness and practice. In this tantric approach to yoga and dance, expressed through the body and through a yoga of emotions, we see the traditions embodied in a manner that embraces the totality of the human experience. The result is the dance of the yogini, the sacred feminine initiatress who dances with one foot in nature and the other in the realm of the gods. With extensive photographs of innovative yoga routines, Roxanne Kamayani Gupta distills her experience into techniques for yogic study certain to assist students of all levels to achieve a dynamic, beautiful, and graceful practice.
INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE
Author: Kapila Vatsyayan
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Published:
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 8123029578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia is a pioneer in Performing arts. This books deals with five classical dance forms of india in detai, viz., Bharatanatyam,Kathakali,orissi,manipuri and Kathak.
Practical Lessons in Yoga
Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Marius König
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788170520108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has been specially designed by the author keeping in mind the needs of the students of Yoga in Europe and America, who need practical but non-technical presentation of the subject in a language accessible to the beginner in the path. At the end of the book an Appendix has been added and a glossary of Sanskrit terms given.Read mor
The Philosophy of Classical Yoga
Author: Georg Feuerstein
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 1996-06
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780892816033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book differs from other studies of Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra in that it places it in its original context and sees it as the source of the whole edifice of classical yoga and not just as a summary of previous developments. An essential reference for students and practitioners of yoga's philosophical foundations.
Yoga
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780691017648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentration "on a Single Point," postures, and respiratory discipline; and Yoga in relation to Brahmanism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Oriental alchemy, mystical erotism, and shamanism.
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra
Author: Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-03-27
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1139470213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really know about this period, and asks what sense we can make of the evolution of yogic and tantric practices, which were to become such central and important features of the Indic religious scene. Its originality lies in seeking to understand these traditions in terms of the total social and religious context of South Asian society during this period, including the religious practices of the general population with their close engagement with family, gender, economic life and other pragmatic concerns.
Yoga in Transformation
Author: Karl Baier
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 3737008620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.
Rodin and the Dance of Shiva
Author: Katia Légeret-Manochhaya
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789385285158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1913, photos of The Nataraja bronze from the Chennai Museum inspired Auguste Rodin's text The Dance of Shiva. Written at the end of his life, this vision of Shiva, Lord of actor/dancers, revealed the underlying links between Rodin's dance sculptures (1910), the Cambodian dancer drawings, and his private collection of antique Venus and Buddha sculptures and wood carvings from India. In this book, historians, artists and poets both French and Indian, bring us a new international vision of Rodin's work.
