TRUTH OF YOGA (NORTH POINT PRESS) (PB)

A succinct, approachable guide for practitioners to the origins, development, key texts, concepts, and practices of yoga. The book aims to highlight ideas on which readers can draw to keep traditions alive in the twenty-first century, offering an overview of yoga's evolution from its earliest origins to the present. It can either be read chronologically or be used as a reference guide to history and philosophy and each short section addresses one element, quoting from traditional texts and putting their teachings into context.