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Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika (Sanskrit: योग दीपिका, "Yoga Dīpikā") is a 1966 book on the Iyengar Yoga style of modern yoga as exercise by B. K. S. Iyengar, first published in English. It describes more than 200 yoga postures or asanas, and is illustrated with some 600 monochrome photographs of Iyengar demonstrating these. The book has been described as the 'bible of modern yoga', and its presentation of the asanas has been called "unprecedented" and "encyclopedic". It has been translated into at least 23 languages and has sold over three million copies.

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  • Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika (Sanskrit: योग दीपिका, "Yoga Dīpikā") is a 1966 book on the Iyengar Yoga style of modern yoga as exercise by B. K. S. Iyengar, first published in English. It describes more than 200 yoga postures or asanas, and is illustrated with some 600 monochrome photographs of Iyengar demonstrating these. The book has been described as the 'bible of modern yoga', and its presentation of the asanas has been called "unprecedented" and "encyclopedic". It has been translated into at least 23 languages and has sold over three million copies. (en)
  • Light on Yoga (engelska för "upplysning om yoga") är en bok om hathayoga som skrevs av 1966 B.K.S. Iyengar och främst behandlar asana (yogaställningar) och pranayama (andningstekniker). Boken anses vara ett av yogalitteraturens viktigaste referensverk, är översatt till 17 språk och har kallats "yogabibeln". Light on Yoga är tillägnad B.K.S. Iyengars guru Sri . (sv)
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  • 51315708
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  • First edition (en)
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  • English (en)
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  • Light on Yoga: Yoga Dīpikā (en)
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  • George Allen and Unwin
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  • Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika (Sanskrit: योग दीपिका, "Yoga Dīpikā") is a 1966 book on the Iyengar Yoga style of modern yoga as exercise by B. K. S. Iyengar, first published in English. It describes more than 200 yoga postures or asanas, and is illustrated with some 600 monochrome photographs of Iyengar demonstrating these. The book has been described as the 'bible of modern yoga', and its presentation of the asanas has been called "unprecedented" and "encyclopedic". It has been translated into at least 23 languages and has sold over three million copies. (en)
  • Light on Yoga (engelska för "upplysning om yoga") är en bok om hathayoga som skrevs av 1966 B.K.S. Iyengar och främst behandlar asana (yogaställningar) och pranayama (andningstekniker). Boken anses vara ett av yogalitteraturens viktigaste referensverk, är översatt till 17 språk och har kallats "yogabibeln". Light on Yoga är tillägnad B.K.S. Iyengars guru Sri . (sv)
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  • Light on Yoga (en)
  • Light on Yoga (sv)
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