title: A Student's Guide to the History and Philosophy of Yoga, Revised Edition
author:  Peter Connolly 
description: Peter Connolly holds BA, MA and PhD degrees in Comparative Religion and Philosophy from the University of Lancaster and a BSc in Psychology from the Open University. From the late 1960's until the mid 1980's he studied and practiced a variety of meditational techniques, ranging from the devotional style of the Divine Light Mission and the Radha Soami Satsang to Tibetan Lam Rim and the more austere approach of Thravada insight meditation as well as some shamanic methods. He has taught Indian religion and philosophy on BA and MA courses for over 30 years and has worked with various yoga organisations throughout that time. He is interested in how people go about constructing histories of yoga and the methods they use for making sense of yoga texts. He is also fascinated by all forms of altered states of consciousness and has trained in both Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnosis, both of which offer an interesting perspective on the psychology of yoga.
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  6th edition — 1983
  publishedby The Chiltern Yoga Trust — Australia
  PO Box 2, South Fremantle 6162
  Western Australia
  
  Contents
  During the first part of my stay in South Africa in 1961, I noticed an intense desire
  on the part of many Indians and non-Indians to rediscover for adoption in their
  own lives a saner value of life.
  The impact of materialistic civilization made it difficult for them to assimilate
  orthodox teaching as offered in the scriptures; and they were not quite satisfied
  with a complete break-away from tradition into the free-thinker's bye-lanes,
  where all but the chosen few lose their path altogether.
  For their benefit, I prepared a pamphlet "The Handbook of Yoga", explaining the
  orthodox principles in simpler style, without, however, deviating from tradition.
  The response was very encouraging.
  When I was in Mauritius in 1963, I was asked to contribute a series of articles on
  Yoga for the 'Maur