History of Hatha Yoga
First Yogis in the US
Early Hatha Yoga Texts
Early Thinkers
Rig Veda
- 1843 Emerson wrote about Bhagavad Gita
- 1849 Henry David Thoreau writes about wanting to become a yogi
- 1873 first Hindu cleric lectures in US
- 1875 Blavatsky & Olcott form Theosophical Society
- 1904 William Walker Atkinson (Yogi Ramachakara) wrote "Hatha Yoga" and other books on yoga and New Thought from 1890s on
- 1910 Sakharam Ganesh Pandit taught hatha yoga in Chicago
Pierre Bernard
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Upanishads
Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1875 Born in Leon Iowa
- 1889 Met Sylvais Hamati
- Syrian Indian, from Brahmin family in Sikkim?
- Taught Tantrism, asana, pranayama, meditation, Vedic philosophy, Sanskrit, hypnosis
- 1898 Demonstration of anesthetic trance
- 1900 Started Tantrik Order in SanFrancisco
- 1900 Met Vivekananda
- 1909 Opened Lodge in NYC
- 1918 Opened Country Club in Nyack
1300s
Gheranda Samhita 1600s
Shiva Samhita 1600s
- 1920 Moves to US
- Founds Self-Realization Fellowship
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Bhagavad Gita
- 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago
- 1894 Founded Vedanta Society
- 1895 Taught at Thousand Island Park Cottage
- 1896 Published book Raja Yoga
- 1946 TIP Cottage becomes V Center
American Yoga Today
The Earliest Origins of Yoga
Other Lineages
1971 Swami Rama Opens Himalayan Institutute
Krishnamacharya Lineage
1947 Indra Devi opens yoga studio in Hollywood
1966 Iyengar Published Light on Yoga
1956 Iyengar's first visit to US Michigan
1961 Vishnudevananda founds Sivananda Center in Montreal, 1971 CA
1975 Pattabhi Jois first visit to US, CA
Krishnamacharya Ofshoots
20th Century Yoga in India
Worldwide Spread