Norman E. Sjoman (born July 6, 1944, Mission City) is known as author of The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace, which contains an English translation of the yoga section of Sritattvanidhi, a 19th-century treatise by Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (b. 1794 - d. 1868). This book contributes an original view on the history and development of modern yoga [asana] teaching traditions. According to Sjoman, a majority of the modern yoga teaching tradition spread primarily through the teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar, and his students, "appears to be distinct from the philosophical or textual tradition, and does not appear to have any basis as a tradition as there is no textual support for the asanas taught and no lineage of teachers."
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