Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice …
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This paper examines cinmudrā, the practice of joining the index finger and thumb together, adopted throughout the 20th century in seated postures such as padmāsana to facilitate the practice of meditation or prāṇāyāma
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The Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati is a Sanskrit text on the practice of Haṭhayoga, probably composed in the eighteenth century in Maharashtra
The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity Read More »
In this chapter, we formulate a corpus of premodern praxis manuals on yoga that were composed in the 18th and 19th century in rudimentary Sanskrit and vernacular languages, which were likely documenting collections of yoga postures (āsana) current among practitioners of the time
This paper examines yoga āsana and vyāyāma instruction from Bengal in the twentieth century
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