Welcome to TYS!
Traditional Yoga Studies (TYS) is dedicated to promoting authentic yogic teachings based on scriptural and oral transmission, as well as solid research, and to bringing out their relevance at the present time of severe environmental and social crisis.
Please scroll down to see our main offerings or go directly to our STORE.
TYS's activist objectives are pursued through Green Yoga Initiative (GYI). For Georg Feuerstein's ongoing Reflections on the State of the World, please click here. See Georg Feuerstein's new article: In the Heart of Old-Growth Cedars.
To make it possible for more students to participate in our courses, we have lowered the prices of our distance learning programs. Our course on the Bhagavad-Gita has just been released (along with a new "high fidelity" translation of the text).
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Saddharma Yoga is a gentle Buddhist-based Yoga that focuses on physical and mental wellbeing in order to create a proper foundation for inner growth.
Brenda Feuerstein has an extensive background in physical fitness training, personal health, and traditional Yoga.
From the perspective of physical health, Vegetarianism is excellent.
From the perspective of moral integrity, Veganism is better.
Conscientious living is best.
Check out our beautifully designed spiral-bound Manual for teaching the philosophy/history segment of 200- to 500-hour Yoga teacher training programs, which makes it easy for teachers to teach this aspect of Yoga. This manual sets a new standard!
Offered for the first time in 2007, our manual has thus far been acquired by Yoga teachers in seven countries: Canada, the U.S., Australia, Great Britain (Scotland), Sweden, Norway, and Holland. This manual is only available as a hard copy through the mail.
For Mahamandaleshvara Swami Veda Bharati's endorsement of our philosophy/history training manual, please click here.
Rusty Wells has called the manual "an essential tool." For his full endorsement, please click here.
Katherine Labonte of Dharma Spirit in Fort McMurray, Alberta, wrote to us enthusiastically: "The manual is grand. My students really love it—and I plan to use a lot of the quotes in my classes. Great work!"
The above comments sum up the sentiments expressed by other teachers who are using the manual in their trainings.
Yoga teachers and students have also found
our new 80-page YOGA GLOSSARY helpful.
See also our newly released translation of the BHAGAVAD-GITA, "the book that Gita students have been waiting for." With the Sanskrit text and transliteration on facing pages.
At present, TYS is offering the following four distance learning courses (correspondence courses), written and designed by Georg Feuerstein, who has authored over forty books, including The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, The Yoga Tradition, Yoga Morality, and Holy Madness (see our store for available titles).
• an 800-hour course on the history, philosophy, and literature of Yoga
• a 250-hour course on Patanjali's system of Classical Yoga
• a 250-hour course on the Foundations of Yoga
• a 120-hour course on the Bhagavad-Gîtâ (released early 2009)
The present serious threat to the biosphere and the future of humanity is discussed in our new book Green Yoga. This work also spells out what we all must do now in order to avoid the worst consequences of environmental devastation. The response has been overwhelming (thank you!).
“I pray that everyone will read this book and start to serve Mother Earth, so that she may survive. I hope that at least Yoga practitioners, who have faith in the evolution of humankind, make it their mission to bring about the necessary transformation.”—B. K. S. IYENGAR
"Green Yoga is one of the most important yoga books in print today."—SUZA FRANCINA, author of The New Yoga for People Over 50 and other books; former mayor of OjaiFor other endorsements of Green Yoga, please click here.
For our articles on Green Yoga and activism, please click here.
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Owing to the present environmental emergency, we have decided to make our latest book entitled Green Dharma available as a PDF document free of charge. It was written especially (but not exclusively) for Buddhist Yoga practitioners. Please also see our free-of-charge PDF downloads of Greening Your Life (a chapter excerpted from Green Dharma, which is full of practical suggestions) and of Georg Feuerstein's latest book Connecting the Dots, which is trying to make sense out of modern life.
»» Free of charge means that you don't pay for the download and you cannot resell it or use it as a means of generating income, and the copyright remains the authors'. ««
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For a detailed discussion of Yoga's ethics, you might want to take a look at Georg Feuerstein's printed book Yoga Morality about which David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) said: "Yogic spirituality, reflecting the wisdom of the greater conscious universe, can provide lasting solutions to our current seemingly intractable global problems. In Yoga Morality, Georg Feuerstein brings this deeper vision of Yoga into focus to show us how to create the values and life-style necessary to reshape our world and ourselves in the light of a higher awareness."
Georg Feuerstein's magnum opus The Yoga Tradition is now available in its third, revised edition! Check in with TYS or the publisher, Hohm Press.
Finally, please refer to the column on the left for select recommended links.
Namaste
Brenda Feuerstein
Director
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