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Frank Jude Boccio (born 1956 [1]) is a teacher and the originator of Mindfulness Yoga as he distinguishes his approach, based upon the Buddha's teaching of satipatthana, from Mindful Yoga, which simply emphasizes doing postures mindfully.
Marguerite Agniel (1891 – c. 1971) was a Broadway actress and dancer, who then became a health and beauty guru in New York in the early 20th century. She is known for her 1931 book The Art of the Body: Rhythmic Exercise for Health and Beauty, one of the first to combine yoga and nudism.
Anne Cushman (born c. 1964 [1]) is an American teacher of yoga as exercise and meditation, a writer on Mindful Yoga, and a novelist. [2] Her novel Enlightenment for Idiots was named by Booklist as one of the top ten novels of 2008. [1]
He did however spend a number of years on the continent, and after his return to England he wrote his work The Compound of Alchemy; or, the Twelve Gates leading to the Discovery of the Philosopher's Stone (Liber Duodecim Portarum) in 1471. [3] The Cantilena Riplaei is one of the first poetic compositions on the subject of alchemy.
These tablets are inhabited by various spiritual beings and entities. [23] Within the Great Table, there is a structured hierarchy of spiritual entities. These include the Three Holy Names, representing potent sources of divine authority, and a Great Elemental King who governs each of the Elemental Tablets.
Based primarily on the Zohar, specifically the section "Mishpatim", where gilgulim are discussed, it also borrows heavily from the teachings of Isaac Luria (1534-1572). The book was composed by Luria's disciple Hayyim Vital and amended by his son, Shmuel Vital, [1] as a section or "gate," of the primary Kabbalistic text Etz Hayim.
The Four Books and Five Classics: . The Five Classics (I Ching, Book of Documents, Classic of Poetry, Book of Rites, Spring and Autumn Annals); The Four Books (Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Analects, Mencius)
The Path of Modern Yoga: The History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice is a 2016 history of the modern practice of postural yoga by the yoga scholar Elliott Goldberg. [1] It focuses in detail on eleven pioneering figures of the transformation of yoga in the 20th century, including Yogendra, Kuvalayananda, Pant Pratinidhi, Krishnamacharya, B. K. S. Iyengar and Indra Devi.