A Yoga timeline:
900-500 BCE: Yoga Tapas (techniques)
3300–1700 BCE: Yoga Asanas (poses)
200BCE-300CE: Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
1100CE: Gorakshananth (founder of 'Hatha Yoga')
1500CE: Yogi Swatmarama's 'Hatha Yoga Pradipika'
1800CE: Ramakrishna Paramahamsa's Yoga (Bhakti)
1900CE: Sri Krishnamacharya's Yoga (Vinyasa Krama Yoga); Sri Aurobindo's Yoga (Jnana)
1920CE: Mahavatar Babaji's Yoga (Kriya)
1930s: BKS Iyengar's Yoga (Iyengar Yoga); K. Pattabhi Jois's Yoga (Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga)
1940s: Swami Sivananda's Yoga (Sivananda Yoga)
1950s-60s: freeweights; exercise bikes; Srivtasa Ramaswami's Yoga;
-Indra Devi's Yoga (born: Eugenie Peterson);
-Swami Vishnudevananda's Yoga (the "Flying Guru", ref: Sivananda Yoga);
-Swami Satyananda's Yoga (ref: Sivananda Yoga);
-Swami Satchidananda (ref: Sivananda Yoga);
-Swami Radha's Yoga (Ursula Hellman, ref: Sivananda Yoga)
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Yoga (Transcendental Meditatoin [TM] and the Beatles)
1970s: swimming; interval training;
-TKV Desikachar's Yoga (ref: Vinyasa Krama, 1900CE [his father]);
-Lilias Folan's Yoga ('Lilias, Yoga and You' on PBS);
-Bikram Choudhury's Yoga (Bikram or 'Hot' Yoga);
-Judith Lasater's Yoga
1980s: body building; aerobics; , step aerobics, stairclimbers, resistance machines, martial arts; Yoga. (Workout clothes become fashionable.)
1990s: in-line skates / rollerblades; Nordic Track; Pilates; kickboxing; elliptical cross-trainers; cross-country ski machines; aquatic exercise; Yoga
2000s: cycling / spinning; treadmills; heart rate monitors; dance (Salsa, Ballroom, Pole, Hip Hop); low-carb diets and the 'fitness, nutrition, dieting' combination; Yoga
Some things are not just priceless, they are also timeless.
Friday, January 15, 2010
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