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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | What is Yoga? | 3 |
| 2 | Mapping Yoga | 10 |
| 3 | Yoga: What For? | 13 |
| 4 | Yoga: For Whom? | 14 |
| 5 | Guidelines for Selecting a Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, Or Class | 16 |
| 6 | Ten Fundamental Principles of Yoga | 21 |
| 7 | Is Yoga a Religion? | 25 |
| 8 | Yoga as Art and Science | 28 |
| 9 | The Yoga of Science | 30 |
| 10 | Traditional Definitions of Yoga | 31 |
| 11 | Yoga in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism | 32 |
| 12 | Forty Types of Hindu Yoga | 36 |
| 13 | The Tree of Hindu Yoga | 39 |
| 14 | Styles of Hatha-Yoga | 53 |
| 15 | Crossing the Boundary Between Hinduism and Buddhism Via Tantra-Yoga | 57 |
| 16 | Vajrayana Buddhist Yoga | 60 |
| 17 | Introducing the Great Literary Heritage of Hindu Yoga | 64 |
| 18 | Yoga Symbolism | 77 |
| 19 | Approaching Spiritual Practice | 85 |
| 20 | The Twelve Steps of Spiritual Recovery | 89 |
| 21 | Happiness, Well-Being, and Reality | 95 |
| 22 | The Quest for Happiness | 101 |
| 23 | Spiritual Discipline | 104 |
| 24 | Life Is an Earthquake | 107 |
| 25 | Samsara Means Running Around in Circles | 110 |
| 26 | Spiritual Friendship | 113 |
| 27 | The Guru: Dispeller of Darkness | 116 |
| 28 | The Guru Function: Broadcasting Reality | 118 |
| 29 | Understanding the Guru | 127 |
| 30 | Holy Madness | 132 |
| 31 | Grace Has a Place in Yoga | 141 |
| 32 | Tapas, Or Voluntary Self-Change | 143 |
| 33 | The Art of Purification | 146 |
| 34 | Obstacles on the Path According to Patanjali | 155 |
| 35 | In Praise of Study | 164 |
| 36 | Silence Is Golden: The Practice of Mauna | 166 |
| 37 | Die While You Live and Last-Hour Yoga | 170 |
| 38 | Living in the Dark Age (Kali-Yuga) | 177 |
| 39 | Yoga and Terrorism | 185 |
| 40 | Yoga Begins and Ends With Virtuous Action | 197 |
| 41 | Is Nonharming (Ahimsa) an Old-Fashioned Value? | 200 |
| 42 | Nonharming According to Jaina Yoga | 204 |
| 43 | Yoga and Vegetarianism | 207 |
| 44 | The Practice of Eco-Yoga | 210 |
| 45 | Overcoming Greed | 215 |
| 46 | Authenticity, Integrity, Unity | 218 |
| 47 | The Power of Truth | 220 |
| 48 | Compassion | 223 |
| 49 | Ethical Guidelines for Yoga Teachers | 226 |
| 50 | Asanas for the Body and the Mind | 231 |
| 51 | Shava-Asana, Or Corpse Posture | 235 |
| 52 | The Breath of Life | 238 |
| 53 | Cultivating Wisdom | 240 |
| 54 | Buddhi-Yoga | 243 |
| 55 | Jnana-Yoga: The Path of Wisdom | 248 |
| 56 | "That Art Thou" - The Essence of Nondualist Yoga | 257 |
| 57 | Discernment and Self-Transcendence | 262 |
| 58 | Karma-Yoga: The Way of Self-Transcending Action | 265 |
| 59 | Bhakti-Yoga: "Worship Me With Love" | 270 |
| 60 | Degrees of Love | 276 |
| 61 | The Kriya-Yoga of Patanjali | 279 |
| 62 | Faith and Surrender: A New Look at the Eightfold Path | 285 |
| 63 | Mantra-Yoga: Sounding Out the Depth Within | 297 |
| 64 | The Gayatri-Mantra | 300 |
| 65 | The Sacred Syllable Om | 304 |
| 66 | Mudras: Gestures of Wholeness | 315 |
| 67 | Taraka-Yoga: Seeing the Light | 317 |
| 68 | Yantra-Yoga: Divine Geometry | 323 |
| 69 | What Is Tantra? | 329 |
| 70 | Sex, Asceticism, and Mythology | 332 |
| 71 | Pathways to Relaxation and Meditation | 341 |
| 72 | What Is Meditation? | 346 |
| 73 | Prayer in Yoga | 355 |
| 74 | The Ecstatic State | 357 |
| 75 | The Serpent Power and Spiritual Life | 362 |
| 76 | Who Or What Is the Self in Self-Realization? | 365 |
| 77 | Emptiness | 368 |
| 78 | Liberation | 372 |
| Notes | 377 | |
| Glossary: Key Sanskrit Terms of Hindu Yoga | 387 | |
| Index | 399 | |
| About the Author | 416 |
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Jason Wilson
reviewed The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice on September 07, 2020
The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice
Not a decolonized look at yoga. Detailed review to come.
***Full Review***
Georg Feuerstein is definitely a scholar and he know a lot more about the academic study of yoga than me. Now that I got that out of the way, I found Deeper Dimension of Yoga an uneven collection of essays that feels dated due in part to the internet and the author's colonial and patriarchal perspective of yoga.
Some essays devoted to answering questions like what yoga publications to read (Yoga Journal lol) and how to find a yoga teacher seemed like random blog articles while others were very long rambles that made vague and generic points about terrorism and environmentalism. I much preferred the essays where Feuerstein is educational but even these are somewhat tedious, encompassing lists of translated words, which I guess are handy as a quick reference.
I took a lot of issue with the guru chapter that was a shrug roll that stacks a teacher's abuse against a teacher's skill. No no no. Gurus who abuse their students are not gurus and leaders absolutely need to be held accountable to their actions. Ahimsa, non-harming, is the first yama, ethical code to observe with other life forms.
I'm just disappointed because despite Feurestein's wealth of learning and knowledge, it is simply an adequate look at the theory and practice of yoga. It is nothing essential or immediate to read. Some essays are powerful such as his discussions on the yamas and niyamas, but overall I was happy to finish the book and move on.
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