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Author: Annie Wood Besant

📘 An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Wood Besant

These lecture notes were presented by Annie Wood Besant at the 32nd Anniversary of the Theosophical Society in Benares, India, on December 27–30, 1907. They provide an introductory outline of Hatha Yoga designed to prepare students for studying Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the chief treatise on Yoga. Besant, with collaborator Bhagavan Das, possessed a translation of the Sutras along with Vyasa’s commentary and an additional Theosophical commentary, though these were never completed or published. The lectures aim to give lay readers insight into the science of sciences and encourage deeper study of Yoga.

First publish date: 1908

Genre: Health & Medicine/General Health

Authors: Annie Wood Besant

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