Required Reading:

Ayurveda the Science of Self Healing by Vasant Lad

Everyday Peace letters for life by Baba Hari Dass

Fire of Love by Adil Palkhivala (recommended)

Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Swami Muktibodhananda (optional)

How to Know God the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali by Christopher Isherwood

Light on Yoga by B.K.S Iyengar

30 Essential Yoga Poses by Judith Lasater (strongly recommended)

Hatha Yoga Illustrated by Martin Kirk, Brooke Boon, and Daniel DiTuro  

Silence Speaks by Baba Hari Dass (optional)

Other Recommendations:

Beginning

Contemporary:

  • Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda
  • The Heart of Yoga Desikachar
  • Everyday Peace, Letters for Life Baba Hari Dass
  • Silence Speaks Baba Hari Dass

Translations or Classical Texts:

  • How to Know God, the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali  Christopher Isherwood
  • Bhagavad Gita, A new Translation Stephen Mitchell

Intermediate

Contemporary:

  • Light on Yoga B.K.S Iyengar
  • Light on Pranayama B.K.S Iyengar

Translations or Classical Texts:

  • The Science of Yoga I.K. Taimni
  • Hatha Yoga Pradipika Swami Muktibodhananda
  • The Bhagavadgita S. Radhakrishnan

Advanced

Contemporary:

Translations or Classical Texts:

  • The Upanishads Eknath Easwaran
  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a study guide for book I Samadhi Pada Baba Hari Dass
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