Some of my Favorite Yoga Books

An exhaustive list of the great yoga books (and short descriptions of each) would make a book in itself (note to self). Still, here are a few of my favorite yoga books:

Patabhi Jois                                      Yoga Mala

H David Colter                                Hatha Yoga Anatomy

BKS Iyengar                                     Light on Yoga
                                                         Light on Life
                                                         Light on Pranayama
                                                         The Tree of Yoga
                                                         Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health

TKS Desikachar                               The Essence of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice

Georg Feuerstein                               The Yoga Tradition

Patanjali                                            The Yoga Sutras

                                                          Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Eknath Easwaran                               The Upanishads

Krishna                                              The Bhagavad Gita (many good interpretations and translations)

Baron Baptiste                                   Forty Days to Personal Transformation

Leonard S Perlmutter                         The Heart and Science of Yoga

Bernie Clark                                      Yinsights

Paul Grilley                                       Yin Yoga

Timothy McCall, MD                        Yoga as Medicine

Deepak Chopra, MD                          The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga: A Practical Guide to Healing

Ramakrishna                                       The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Krishnamacharya                                Yoga Jalisaram

Gertrud Hirschi                                  Mudras: Yoga in Your Hands

...and that's just the tip of the iceberg, off the top of my head. If i was at home by my library, I'd recognize a few old favorites I surely forgot!

AUM, Shanti, Shanti, Shantihiii

"...Let me unfold the voice of books which the wise honor"
             -Euripides/Erectheus


Post Scriptum:

Please share your favorite books I might have missed in the comments. I'll read (and live) them all...Thanks beforehand : )