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YOGA RESEARCH
Yoga Research Center
200 pages of research and education in all aspects of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina Yoga.

YOGA PRODUCTS
MindBodyBliss
MindBodyBliss offers yoga clothing, mats and props, DVDs, workshops, books and more!

MyYoga Life

We aim to offer the widest array of yoga products and yoga accessories at the best prices. The right yoga mats, yoga straps, and yoga props and gear are essential in helping you achieve a sustainable and healthy yoga routine. We want to be a key to your yoga life.

YOGA INFO
The Yoga Site
Info about yoga; lists of teachers, workshops, news, books, links

YogaFinder Online

Look for or list yoga classes, instructors, and facilities in the U.S.

Yoga for Beginners

Basic information for beginners about yoga, styles, benefits, guidelines, and meditation.


DoYoga.com
http://www.doyoga.com
DoYoga.com is a rich resource for exploration into yoga through articles and book reviews as well as links to further resources, including recommended teachers and class and workshop schedules.

Yoga Community Newsletter

http://members.tripod.com/~evarose/YogaCommunity_index.html

A printed monthly newsletter with a distribution of 4,000, dedicated to co-creating a healing community aligned with spirit, aligned with the resonation of unity and unconditional acceptance
of all paths and all voices.

www.internetyoga.com
www.internetyoga.com is a virtual shrine to teachers and teachings of yoga. A cyberspace ashram, a conscious touch point, an electronic bindu, and source of knowledge for seekers wishing a larger understanding and a place to connect to a community dedicated to internal growth.

Yogaaahh

A place to learn about, share, and experience hatha yoga
This website offers instruction of several yoga poses with text and pictures. There also is general information for beginning practicing yogaand a page of recommended books, videos, and websites. http://www2.gdi.net/~mjm

The Sivananda Yoga "Om" Page

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centershttp://www.sivananda.org

Yoga Anand Ashram http://www.santosha.com
A complete online resource for Yoga information.

Shamsher Prakash Foundation
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/free8yoga8free8yoga/index.html
FREE yoga and meditation classes around the world since 1979.
FREE introductory yoga practice literature. Low-cost books and supplies.

RETREAT CENTERS

Seeker's Inn & Retreats at Wildbird Farm
http://www.yoga-retreatsnc.com/index.html

DIRECTORIES AND GUIDES

All-Embracing Yoga Directory is an extensive Guide to Yoga Centers, classes, teachers, certificates, programs, retreats and Yoga Associations. The Yoga directory listings are sorted by country, yoga tradition and yoga style. This site is a must for anyone wanting to explore the yoga's diversity.
Alternative Medicine Guide is an extensive web portal to over 700 sites dealing with alternative medicine.
Betty's House, Life After MS Although this wonderfully produced site is directed toward people with MS, its mission statement that people "can be 'enabled' by a condition rather than 'disabled,' by it and that the choice is up to to the individual" is totally consistent with extensionyoga.com's message. 
ByRegion.net Organizes healers, body workers, healing activities as well as related products and services by region (also includes local artists, musicians, writers, & performers).
Enhancement, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation whose purpose is to teach and disseminate material relating to health and/or wellness, through videos, publications, lectures, etc.
Ensureyoursuccess.net has the intention of becoming the largest Theme-Categorized Link Directory in the world. Click for a vast array of yoga and other health related links and be sure to check out their home page.
Health & Wellness Directory: Health, wellness, alternative holistic, general health links and a variety of other interesting and useful websites including yoga, martial arts, meditation, Zen, breathing
Matilda  is an extensive Australian search engine with many holistic links and listings.
Meditate Now is a project directed by Peter Bloch, a Harvard trained lawyer who is seriously involved with meditation. Loaded with immensely valuable information about meditation, I encourage you to look at his site.

OmPlace, a highly recommended site, provides an amazing amount of Conscious Living information through many searchable databases. They also offer web hosting, email sites, and much more.

Open Directory Project Its goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory on the web. The yoga directories are only a fraction of what is available on The Open Directory Project.  

Peace & Harmony Ring - Holistic Healing Resources - Alternative medicine and natural healing, angels, inspirations, Native American healing and art, books, posters and prints, vegetarian resources, natural healing for pets, practitioner site design, nature crafts, and of course, yoga.

Sawilsons - is a commercial website selling "The First and Only Coffee Specifically Blended and Roasted With Enema use in Mind," Sawilsons has a wonderful Alternative Health and Wellness directory which I encourage you to browse. 

Terry Slade has compiled an extensive reference involving all aspects of yoga; including books, teachers and all aspects of health. This is a web reference well worth your time.
Yahoo Yoga Ring
Yahoo Healing: Body, Mind & Spirit
In addition to these specific rings, there are hundreds of other rings to which you can subscribe.
Yoga411.com is one of the biggest resources of Yoga Studios and Schools, Yoga Teachers, Yoga Seminars, and Yoga and Fitness Publications on the internet. It is also a gateway to an extensive array of yoga supplies and props.
Yoga Directory is another highly recommended collection of world-wide yoga directories featuring teachers, centers, retreats and services.  
Yoga Everywhere actually has three components: Yogaeverywhere.com is an elegantly designed website offering safe and easy yoga real-world instruction for beginners. This is a site yoga teachers can recommend to raw beginners for a real no-nonsense introduction to yoga. The second component is a national and international directory of yoga teachers and retreats. The last component, also highly recommended, is The Living Practice, a monthly newsletter containing articles, poetry, and announcements. It is available free via the Yoga Everywhere website.
Yoga Online Magazine   has an extensive data base of yoga articles, links to all of the major yoga websites throughout the world, and an on-line yoga store. Also see Yoga Holidays for a world wide listing of yoga holidays.
YogaSite.com offers an outstanding collection of yoga information. It is a highly recommended resource for all yoga students and teachers
Your Time An extensive lifestyle free membership community including sections on: Your Life, Money, Health, Technology, Travel, Leisure, Stories and Recipes.  
Yoga Village UK    A website resource run by YogaUK and is dedicated to the practice of yoga in the United Kingdom. There are links to yoga teachers, organizations, and events from all traditions.
Zeus Reciprocal  Ring Generator is a Yoga and Meditation ring.

ASANA
Yoga Asanas
A list of poses linked to their respective pages of instruction

Desktop Yoga
Exercises for people who work at a computer. Animations demonstrate text instructions.

CYBERCLASSES
Yoga Class
Classes presented with Real player

HATHA YOGA

Iyengar
Iyengar Yoga Teachers Directory
List of teachers by country and state


The World of BKS Iyengar's Yoga

The Official Web Site of Yogacharya BKS Iyengar

Anusara
John Friend's Anusara Yoga

http://www.anusarayoga.com

Ashtanga

Betty Lai's Ashtanga Yoga
http://www.ashtanga.com

Absolutely Ashtanga Information on Ashtanga Yoga (including lots of pictures!) as well as other yoga practice styles. The site also includes links to other yoga information sources and a teacher directory. Daily classical hatha, power yoga and ashtanga classes in downtown Portland, Oregon at Yoga Bhoga. Visitors and drop-ins always welcome. www.absolutelyashtanga.com

Tim Miller's Ashtanga Yoga 

http://www.best.com/~fearless/Astanga.html


Tom Sewell's Ashtanga Yoga 

http://www.ashtanga1.com/index.html

Kundalini Yoga
M
ailing List
http://www.kundaliniyoga.org/
Kundalini Yoga http://www.yogibhajan.com

Yoga Technology site - http://www.yogatech.com/
Publishers of popular books on Kundalini Yoga & Meditation since 1988. Author Gururattan K. Khalsa Ph.D.

OTHER YOGA
Tantra
Abhidhyan Yoga Institute, Inc. 
http://www.abhidhyan.org/
A nonprofit spiritual organization dedicated to sharing authentic teachings of classical tantra yoga including All-Embracing Meditation. No-nonsense assistance on your unique spiritual journey. YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED ONLINE! Subscriptions to quarterly newsletter.

PRANAYAMA
Hatha Yoga Breathing
Background information and instructions for yogic breathing.


Roots and Wings Yoga Page

Articles, practice suggestions, merchandise, Iyengar information

Community/Groups
weBreathe.com
A global health community connecting people, practices, and products that connect mind, body, and world. Needs flash plugin.

Yoga Group

Yoga for HIV/AIDS

YOGA CENTERS
Aadil B.A. Palkhivala's Yoga Centers 
http://www.yogacenters.com

John Schumacher's Unity Woods Yoga Center
http://www.unitywoods.com/


Yoga at the Beach Studio and Resource Center is a sanctuary, a place of renewal and peace that offers simple and practical yogic wisdom. Instruction is Iyengar and dance influenced, and Kundalini and Ashtanga yoga. Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Massage therapy, Ayurveda, and Homeopathy are also available. We offer private sessions, group classes, seminars on myriad yoga topics in one or multi-day workshops. We will custom create a seminar or workshop on stress resilience, anxiety, high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, asthma, addiction, menstruation, diabetes, pregnancy, or menopause. We are honored to develop programs to fit your needs.
http://www.yoga-at-the-beach.com

The Sivananda Yoga "Om" Page

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers
http://www.sivananda.org

Teacher's Sites
The Spirit & Practice of Moving Into Stillness
Erich Schiffmann's teaching site and conferencing community


John Friend's Anusara Yoga

http://www.anusarayoga.com


Tim Miller's Ashtanga Yoga 

http://www.best.com/~fearless/Astanga.html

PHILOSOPHY
The Advaita Vedanta Home Page
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/

Alchemy Web Site 
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html

William Blake Archives 
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake

DharmaNet: Gateways to Buddhism 
http://www.dharmanet.org

Heraclitus of Ephesus: Fragments
http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ch3a.htm

Hindu Net 
http://www.hindunet.org/home.shtml

Indian Philosophy and Religion
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1863

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/

Rumi 
http://www.indranet.com/potpourri/poetry/rumi/rumi.html

Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason 
http://www.csicop.org/si

Spirituality, Yoga, Hinduism Page 
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1415

INDIAN ART
The Ancient Indus Valley
Great detailed information on all things Harappan, including a walk through Mohenjodaro.

http://www.harappa.com/welcome.html

http://www.harappa.com/har/moen0.html

Asia Society Asian Art Connections 
This amazing collection of multimedia Shockwave movies provides a lively and very informative introduction to various pieces in the Asia Society's Asian art collection. 

http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/movie.html

Black Peacock 
http://www.goloka.com/index.html

Darshan: Gallery of Hindu Art 
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_pictures

Image Gallery: Vedic Deities 
http://www.za.spiritweb.org/Spirit/image-gallery-vedicdeity.html

MohanÕs Hindu Image Gallery 
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_pictures

Wellcome Institute's digitized images
Check out the selected leaves of Devanagari manuscripts, including the Yoga sutras of Patañjali, the Isa Upanisad, and Bhâskara's Lîlâvatî. 

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indnet-art.html

SANSKRIT
Sanskrit Documents List the main source for Sanskrit documents (older site; mirror site)

Here is a Wish List for further Documents that need to be encoded.

Check the Volunteer page for more Sanskrit related utilities and information.

Sanskrit texts at the ITRANS Song BookSatsang (Texts, Audio-files, Devanagari)

Stotra Page
- archive containing many hard-to-find Sanskrit documents

Rigveda e-texts
More ITRANS

Sanskrit texts
HTML version of sanskrit documents in  Sanskrit 1.2 / XDVNG fonts

are linked from http://www.hscc.net/sanskrit/Sanskrit

Templates


John's Utility for typing Sanskrit (Devanagari and Romanised) into Word97 directly (no ITRANS involved)Avinash ChopdeÕs ITRANS 5.1 package

Web interface to ITRANS
- Type in English, and the transliterated output in the desired Indian language is provided both in postscript and transparent GIF format.

Jtrans
an on-line conversion utility, uselful for HTML pages in Devanagari

Sanskrit Bharati
useful Sanskrit related links

The INDOLOGY PageLinks to more Sanskrit SitesSanskrit

Dictionary search
IITS - Cologne Digital Sanskrit

Lexicon
Sanskrit Religions Institute

Samskrit through Correspondence


Samskrita Bharati's Home Page


Capeller's Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Part of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionary project.

http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/cap_search.html

Itranslator Devanagari Software.
This is the best and easiest to use Devanagari software that we know of, 

and it's free! Developed by Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas, Itranslator converts transliterated Sanskrit text into Devanagari. You can export or paste the text via the clipboard into any Windows application. Use Itranslator to create both Devanagari and transliterated Roman text­simultaneously!

http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Omkarananda/Sanskrit/Itranslt.html

Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Online version). 
The Monier-Williams' dictionary has been digitized (and is therefore searchable), made available by the University of Cologne, Germany. 

This is an amazing resource!
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html

Online Compilation of Sanskrit Documents ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/index.html

Online Sanskrit Dictionary
http://www.alkhemy.com/sanskrit/dict/search.html

Sanskrit Book Resources
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1415/sbooks.html

Sanskrit Home Page 
http://www.alkhemy.com/sanskrit/atul

University of Cologne's Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies
(responsible for the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionary project). 

http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/index.e.html

Vyaas Houston's American Sanskrit Institute
http://www.americansanskrit.com/core.html

Web Interface to the ITRANS Package
A quick way to create Devanagari online through your Web browser with no need for any other software. 

http://www.alkhemy.com/sanskrit/web-interface/

WEB BOOKSTORES
The Boulder Bookstore 
Our favorite local bookstore in Boulder, owned and operated by yogis. 

If you don't see a yoga or philosophy book that you're looking for, 

just drop an email or give a call, they'll be happy to try to special order it for you. http://www.boulderbookstore.com

East West Books
http://www.eastwest.com

South Asia Books

http://www.SouthAsiaBooks.com

Vedanta Press

http://www.vedanta.com

MYSORE
Planning a trip to Mysore to study with our teacher K. Pattabhi Jois? HereÕs some helpful links... 

Current weather in Mysore
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Mysore_IN_f.html

Lonely Planet Guide: Karnataka 
http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/dest/ind/kar.htm

Mysore City, India
http://ece.iisc.ernet.in/bu.edu/karnataka/cities/mysore/mysore.html

Mysore: City of Palaces and Gardens 
http://www.angelfire.com/nj/mysore

Mysore Online
OK, the cows and rickshaws may only be virtual, but without getting on a 

plane this is as close as you can come to Mysore. 

http://www.mysoreonline.com

resources

Yoga International Magazine 
http://www.yimag.com/
Yoga Journal 

http://www.yogajournal.com
The Online Self Improvement Encyclopedia
http://www.selfgrowth.com/


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