Norman E. Sjoman[1] (born July 6, 1944, Mission City) is known as author of the 1996 book The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace, which contains an English translation of the yoga section of Sritattvanidhi, a 19th-century treatise by the Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (b. 1794 - d. 1868). This book contributes an original view on the history and development of the teaching traditions behind modern asanas.[2][3][4] According to Sjoman, a majority of the tradition of teaching yoga as exercise, spread primarily through the teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar and his students, "appears to be distinct from the philosophical or textual tradition [of hatha yoga], and does not appear to have any basis as a [genuine] tradition as there is no textual support for the asanas taught and no lineage of teachers."[5]
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^Cushman, Anne (Jul–Aug 1999). New Light on Yoga. p. 43. ISSN 0191-0965. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Alter, Joseph (2004). Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy. Princeton University Press. pp. 17, 23, 249. ISBN 9780691118741.
^Singleton, Mark (2010). Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice. Oxford University Press. pp. 12, 17, 87, 161, 201. ISBN 9780199745982.
^Sjoman, Norman E. (1999). The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace (2nd ed.). New Delhi, India: Abhinav Publications. pp. 11, 35. ISBN 81-7017-389-2.
Norman E. Sjoman (born July 6, 1944, Mission City) is known as author of the 1996 book The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace, which contains an English...
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old" sequence of danda (Sanskrit for "staff" or "stick") exercises. NormanSjoman suggests that it was among the poses adopted into modern yoga as exercise...
primary feature of the significant yoga traditions in India." The scholar NormanSjoman comments that a continuous tradition running all the way back to the...
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manual of gymnastics, as the balancing movement exercise called jhula. NormanSjoman suggests that it is one of the poses adopted into modern yoga in Mysore...
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gymnastics, as part of the "very old" sequence of danda exercises. NormanSjoman suggests that it is one of the poses adopted into modern yoga in Mysore...
important work on the subject is by the scholar of Sanskrit and hatha yoga, NormanSjoman. His 1996 book The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace presents the...
popularised yoga asanas worldwide with what the scholar-practitioner NormanSjoman calls its "clear no-nonsense descriptions and the obvious refinement...
creating modern postural yoga by NormanSjoman Other authors who share this approach to yoga as exercise include NormanSjoman and Mark Singleton. "Joseph...
illustrates a pose that it names Trivikramasana, but which the yoga scholar NormanSjoman states is Durvasasana. The name Bhairavasana comes from the Sanskrit...
practice. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539534-1. OCLC 318191988. Sjoman, Norman E. (1999). The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace. Abhinav Publications...
posture with yoga strap", with the band tied around the folded legs. NormanSjoman states that this seems to have been an alternative meditation pose when...
triangle pose itself from front and rear. The scholar-practitioner NormanSjoman notes that Light on Yoga served to popularise the practice of asanas...
pioneer within Sivananda-inspired yoga". The yoga scholar-practitioner NormanSjoman notes in his analysis of modern yoga that the asanas of B. K. S. Iyengar's...
for the same pose as Iyengar, implying, according to the yoga scholar NormanSjoman, that they both learnt the pose from their teacher Krishnamacharya....
pillar, a third like a rope, a fourth smooth, polished, and cold...): NormanSjoman found yoga influenced by South Indian wrestling exercises; Joseph Alter...
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