Definitely. He does hatha yoga, which I prefer to the other kinds - if only because I've been doing it for so long. (I've done kundalini, too, and didn't like it as much.) But there's no kind of yoga that would be bad, if you like it.
Inner workings of yoga? Read Patanjali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali), with commentaries. "Yoga Sutras" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras). The basic foundations of yoga. It's a series of aphorisms, simple on the surface, but incredibly deep and dense - maybe difficult without a teacher.
The book I started with was Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation by Jess Stern - good, but journalistic and hence somewhat shallow.
One of the best books on the subject is The spirit of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Spirit-Yoga-Cat-Rham/dp/0007108826) - sorry to give you the Canadian page, but I can't get into amazon dot com just now.
I haven't read it, but you might find The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Yoga-Practical/dp/0471736279/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216387012&sr=1-23) to be good - Deepak Chopra tends to give good, clear explanations of yoga principles.
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Date: 2008-07-18 01:18 pm (UTC)Definitely. He does hatha yoga, which I prefer to the other kinds - if only because I've been doing it for so long. (I've done kundalini, too, and didn't like it as much.) But there's no kind of yoga that would be bad, if you like it.
Inner workings of yoga? Read Patanjali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali), with commentaries. "Yoga Sutras" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras). The basic foundations of yoga. It's a series of aphorisms, simple on the surface, but incredibly deep and dense - maybe difficult without a teacher.
The book I started with was Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation by Jess Stern - good, but journalistic and hence somewhat shallow.
One of the best books on the subject is The spirit of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Spirit-Yoga-Cat-Rham/dp/0007108826) - sorry to give you the Canadian page, but I can't get into amazon dot com just now.
I haven't read it, but you might find The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Yoga-Practical/dp/0471736279/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216387012&sr=1-23) to be good - Deepak Chopra tends to give good, clear explanations of yoga principles.