How Old Are Yoga Poses?

Various Lists

Khalsa Logic Model

Selected Books and Articles

Birch, Jason. “Chapter 3: The Proliferation of Āsana-s in Late-Medieval Yoga Texts.” In Yoga in Transformation, edited by Karl Baier, Philipp A. Maas, and Karin Preisendanz, 101–80. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2018. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737008624.101.
Birch, Jason. “Eighty-Four Āsanas for Sexual Pleasure: A 19th-Century Brajbhāṣā Reworking of the Kokośātra.” The Luminescent, May 2019. https://www.theluminescent.org/2019/05/eighty-four-asanas-for-sexual-pleasure.html.
Bryant, Edwin F., trans. The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary with Insights from the Traditional Commentators. New York: North Point Press, 2009.
Foxen, Anya P. Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hargreaves, Jacqueline. “The Earliest Known ‘Dog’ Pose.” The Luminescent, 2015. https://www.theluminescent.org/2015/07/the-earliest-known-dog-pose.html.
Kaivalya, Alanna. "How We Got Here: Where Yoga Poses Come From by Alanna Kaivalya." Hoffington Post, Apr 28, 2012.
Mallinson, James, and Mark Singleton. Roots of Yoga. Penguin, 2017.
Nardini, Sadie. "Your Yoga Poses Aren't 5,000 Years Old: A New Perspective on 'Old' Yoga." Hoffington Post, Oct 16, 2009.
Powell, Seth. Contesting Yoga’s Past: A Brief History of Āsana in Pre-modern India.
Powell, Seth. “The Ancient Yoga Strap: A Brief History of the Yogapaṭṭa.” The Luminescent (blog), June 16, 2018. https://www.theluminescent.org/2018/06/the-ancient-yoga-strap-yogapatta.html.
QI, How Old Are Yoga Poses? (just for fun)
Singleton, Mark. Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Syman, Stefanie. The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.