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plates. It was influential as the first illustrated yoga textbook to be printed. The book was transitional in several ways: from traditional secrecy to public access to hatha yoga's practices; from symbolic to naturalistic representation of the yoga body, its halftone engravings forming a halfway
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this book is 'a key transitional text in the history of the representation of the yogic body, and was conceived as a work of art as well as a practical instruction manual.' It's a small book, modestly printed, whose influence belies its humble
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engravings, as a muscled, three-dimensional body in physical postures. This was a radical break from centuries of hatha yoga tradition, in which the body was painted symbolically, to show invisible features such as the
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house between painting and photography; and from spiritual description to art.
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In the museum curator Debra Diamond's view, the book "was conceived as a
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was in several ways a "key transitional moment" from medieval
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by Yogi Narayana Ghamande. It describes and illustrates 37
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Yoga Body : the origins of modern posture practice
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First hatha yoga manual with halftone illustrations
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Index

Yoga Sopāna

yoga
Matsyendrasana
Marathi
Asanas
Hatha yoga
Marathi
Devanagari
Marathi
hatha yoga
asanas
Matsyendrasana
Sarvangasana
mudras
Viparita Karani
halftone

subtle body
chakras
Mark Singleton
hatha yoga
yoga as exercise
half-tone
subtle body
chakras
sophistic
Ardhavrikshasana, a variant of Shirshasana
Shirshasana
Vrikshasana

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