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200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program
Reading List

In Hatha Yoga Center's Yoga Teacher Training program, you will be required to purchase a few texts. Here is the recommended reading list:

I. Hatha Yoga

Required
YOGA FOR A NEW AGE by Bob Smith

Highly Recommended Additional Reading
LIGHT ON YOGA by BKS Iyengar

YOGA – THE SPIRIT and PRACTICE OF MOVING INTO STILLNESS by Eric Schiffman

THE SIVANANDA COMPANION to YOGA by the Sivananda Yoga Center

YOGA for WELLNESS by Gary Kraftsow

II. Anatomy and Physiology

Required
ANATOMY OF MOVEMENT by Blandine Calais-Germain

ANATOMY of HATHA YOGA by H. David Coulter

Highly Recommended
THE ANATOMY COLORING BOOK by Wynn Kapit and Lawrence Elson

ANATOMY of MOVEMENT EXERCISES by Blandine Calais-Germain and Andree Lamotte

ANATOMY: A REGIONAL ATLAS of the HUMAN BODY by Carmine D. Clementi - for reference only

DYNAMIC ALIGNMENT THROUGH IMAGERY: by Eric Franklin

III. Yoga Philosophy

Required
THE HEART of YOGA by Desikachar (this book, or YOGA: REFLECTIONS on the YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI by Bernard Bouanchaud– only one is required)

THE UPANISHADS by Eknath Easwaran

Highly Recommended Reading
LIVING YOGA by Georg Feuerstein and Stephan Bodian

The PHILOSOPHY OF CLASSICAL YOGA BY Georg Feuerstein

The YOGA SUTRAS of PATANJALI by Georg Feuerstein

The YOGA SUTRAS of PATANJALI by Barbara Stoler Miller

The BHAGAVAD GITA by Barbara Stoler Miller

The BHAGAVAD GITA by Eknath Easwaran

GOD TALKS with ARJUNA: The BHAGAVAD GITA by Paramahansa Yogananda

IV. Yoga & Meditation Inspiration

Required
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a YOGI by Paramahansa Yogananda

Highly Recommended Reading
RAMAKRISHNA: A BIOGRAPHY by Christopher Isherwood

books by Thich Naht Hanh

books by Jack Kornfield or Joseph Goldstein

meditation tapes (and books) by Pir Vilayat Khan

V. Classical Hatha Yoga

Required
None

Highly Recommended Reading
THE HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA

THE GHERANDA SAMHITA

THE SIVA SAMHITA

HATHA YOGA by Theos Bernard

YOGA TRADITION: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice by Georg Feuerstein

THE YOGA TRADITION of the Mysore Palace by N.E. Sjoman

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