An Introduction to Yoga, Annie Besant
An Introduction to Yoga, Annie Besant
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An Introduction to Yoga

Author: Annie Besant

Narrator: Sripad Jagannatha Das, The Vraj Mandala

Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/08/2022


Synopsis

Four lectures by Annie Besant to give an outline and better understanding of Yoga. Annie Besant was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights activist, educationist, writer, orator, political party member and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human freedom, she was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krystelle on October 26, 2020

This was a very rudimentary exercise in the study of yoga, and it spends the majority of the time it has on why you should really be reading books in Sanskrit instead (which, to be fair, is quite understandable). There's not much of substance here, and it could have been condensed (even though it al......more

Goodreads review by KarhuAnderson on January 20, 2020

Comes off as a foreword to a larger opus, than a work of it's own. Not as much an introduction to Yoga, as it is an introduction to the philosophies behind it, with the goal of helping one understand the possibilities of choice before them and ends before the actual introduction implied by the title......more

Goodreads review by R on July 12, 2023

This book was definitely an introduction to yoga. In places it was really hard to read. It was one of those books that you sort of "slog" through like moving through deep mud. Really, I think that some people would really enjoy this. You just need to be aware that it reads a great deal like a term p......more