Norman E. Sjoman [1] (born July 6, 1944, Mission City) is known as author of the 1996 book The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace, which contains an English translation of the yoga section of Sritattvanidhi, a 19th-century treatise by the Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (b. 1794 - d. 1868). This book contributes an original view on the history and development of the teaching traditions behind modern asanas.[2][3][4] According to Sjoman, a majority of the tradition of teaching yoga as exercise, spread primarily through the teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar and his students, "appears to be distinct from the philosophical or textual tradition [of hatha yoga], and does not appear to have any basis as a [genuine] tradition as there is no textual support for the asanas taught and no lineage of teachers."[5]
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- ^ Cushman, Anne (Jul–Aug 1999). New Light on Yoga. p. 43. ISSN 0191-0965.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Alter, Joseph (2004). Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy. Princeton University Press. pp. 17, 23, 249. ISBN 9780691118741.
- ^ Singleton, Mark (2010). Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice. Oxford University Press. pp. 12, 17, 87, 161, 201. ISBN 9780199745982.
- ^ Sjoman, Norman E. (1999). The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace (2nd ed.). New Delhi, India: Abhinav Publications. pp. 11, 35. ISBN 81-7017-389-2.