Norman Sjoman
Norman E. Sjoman lineage of teachers."[5]
Education
Sjoman studied at the
Pune University, and a pandit degree from the Mysore Maharaja's Mahapathasala. Sjoman spent 14 years in India studying four different shastras
in Sanskrit, with several pandits.
From 1970 to 1976 Sjoman studied yoga under B.K.S. Iyengar.
The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace
Setubandhasana, in the 19th century Sritattvanidhi in the Mysore Palace
.In the mid 1980s, while doing research at the
vinyasa style, and further passed on to Iyengar and Jois.[2] The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace was published in 1996 including the 122 asana illustrations and extracts from the gymnastics manual. Naturally, the radical, perhaps heretical, idea that some of the practice of modern yoga as exercise is based on something as mundane as British gymnastics caused a stir in the yoga world.[3]
Publications
- An Introduction to South Indian Music (with H.V. Dattatreya) Saraswati Project, Netherlands. 1986
- The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace Abhinav Publications. New Delhi, India. 1996, 1999. ISBN 81-7017-389-2.[6]
- A South Indian Treatise on the Kamasastra (with Swami Sivapriyananda). Abhinav Publications. New Delhi, India. 2000. ISBN 81-7017-388-4.
- Yoga Touchstone (with H.V. Dattatreya). Black Lotus Books. Calgary, Canada. 2004. ISBN 0-9736162-0-2
- Artists in Mysore (under the pseudonym Naramani Somanath). Black Lotus Books. Calgary, Canada. 2006. ISBN 0-9736162-1-0
- Dead Birds (with H.V. Dattatreya on accompanying DVD). Black Lotus Books. Calgary, Canada. 2007. ISBN 0-9736162-2-9
- Art: The Dark Side. Black Lotus Books. Calgary, Canada. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9736162-3-1
- Yogasutracintamani. Black Lotus Books, Calgary, Canada. 2013. ISBN 978-0-9736162-4-8
See also
- Joseph Alter – anthropologist, author of Yoga in Modern India
- Mark Singleton - yoga scholar-practitioner, author of Yoga Body, which further explores the role of Mysore in the development of yoga as exercise
References
- ^ WorldCat identities
- ^ )
- ^ ISBN 9780691118741.
- ISBN 9780199745982.
- ^ ISBN 81-7017-389-2.
- ^ Dallapiccola, A. L. "The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace by N. E. Sjoman", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Apr., 1998), pp. 120-121.
External links
- Website
- In Perpetual Motion: A Conversation with Norman Sjoman PhD on Yoga, Art and a Personal Sense of Order
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