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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 Hatha Yoga A Brief and Incomplete History of Vedas Composed in Vedic Sanskrit containing 4 texts: Rigveda,Samaveda, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda. 800ad-1500ad Yoga Arrives in America The Tantric period of Indian history,marks the rise in the cultivationof the body as a spiritual center. The body becomes the hub of spiritual activity as Tantra beganto spread throughout India. 1800 bc Beginnings Aryan (Vedic) tribes invade theIndus Valley and compose the Vedas (sacred texts). They start the beginnings of the use of bodily posture (asana), breath control(pranayama), and ritual handposture (mudras). 200 ad 8 Limbs of Yoga Hatha Yoga 1950 Tantric Era India Krishnamarcharya 1957 1961 Indra Devi returns to US after being the first Westerner to study with Krishnamarcharyaand she opens a yoga studio in Hollywood. Bringing the Hatha yoga lineage to the US. 1941 late 1600ad Hatha yoga is born out of this quest for bodily-based spiritual transformation, and thus asanasflourish as the instruments of the sadhana orspiritual practice. Goraksha authors The Tantric hatha yoga text, the Gherandha Samhita citing 84 asanas. double click to changethis text! Drag a cornerto scale proportionally. double click to changethis text! Drag a cornerto scale proportionally. Krishnamarcharya spreads the practice of yoga and yoga asanas in India with extensive lecture demonstrations, accompanied by his now reknowned students Pattabhi Jois and B.K.S. lyengar. Patanjali authors the Yoga Sutras, the first text to codifythe practice of yoga. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras outlinesthe eight limbs of yoga with "asana" as the third limb. double click to change this title text! double click to change this title text! double click to changethis text! Drag a cornerto scale proportionally. double click to changethis text! Drag a cornerto scale proportionally. journeyoga.blogspot.com
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