In-Depth 200-Hour foundations program reading list

Required Texts

  • Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar

  • Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, Stephen Cope

  • Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Practice, Susanna Barkataki

  • The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, T.K.V. Desikachar

  • Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness, Erich Schiffmann

  • Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations & Techniques, Mark Stephens & Mariel Hemmingway

  • The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran, Ravi Ravindra, or Graham Schweig

  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, choose among translations by Alistair Shearer or Sri Swami Satchidananda

  • Yoga Anatomy, Leslie Kaminoff & Amy Matthews, red cover/3rd Edition

  • The Key Muscles of Yoga: Scientific Keys, Volume 1, Ray Long

  • The Yoga of Breath: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pranayama, Richard Rosen