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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

800-500 BCE

  • 1920 Moves to US
  • Founds Self-Realization Fellowship

Swami Vivekananda

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

100-200 AD

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

500-200 BCE

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

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