http://yogainusa.com/yogausablog Everything you wanted to know about Yoga In USA Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:45:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Patanjali, the father of Yoga was a great physician too. Supposed to have lived during 200 B.C to 200 A.D, his book Yoga  Sutra is a guide book for simple and healthy living.  Yoga Sutra has 195 aphorisms or sutras which actually do not describe the yogic postures or asanas. ... http://yogainusa.com/yogausablog/2008/05/10/the-eightfold-path-of-yoga/% "Sit still and you get monkeys in your head!" –K. Pattabhi Jois Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois was born in a priest family of Kowshika village near Hassan in Karnataka. His father was not only a priest but also an astrologer who was the family priest of several families in the village. ... http://yogainusa.com/yogausablog/2008/04/29/ashtanga-yoga-mysore-school/% Bikram Yoga Bikram Yoga is a variety of “Hatha” yoga. Its founder and propagator Bikram Choudhury, has studied yoga with Bishnu Ghosh, the brother of Paramahansa Yogananda. Bikram yoga or “Hot” yoga as it is usually know as, is performed in a room where the temperature is maintained at 105degrees Farenheit/ 37 ... http://yogainusa.com/yogausablog/2008/04/28/bikram-yoga/% Bihar School of Yoga       “Yoga is not mere asana, Yoga is not mere meditation. Yoga is a philosophy” - Swami Niranjananda Yoga was previously done by the yogis who lived a solitary life away from the society and practiced yoga. The efforts of various people to make yoga a part ... http://yogainusa.com/yogausablog/2008/04/20/bihar-school-of-yoga/% The Vivekananda Yoga Training Institute ... http://yogainusa.com/yogausablog/2008/04/19/vivekananda-yoga-training-institute/% BKS Iyengar is credited with making yoga reach out to the masses. His school of yoga also known as the Iyengar Yoga, is widely known for the use of different props as belts, blocks etc. to help in taking the various postures (asanas). Like the other forms of yoga, Iyengar ... http://yogainusa.com/yogausablog/2008/04/10/iyengar-yoga/%