PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS: Building blocks

The wheel of yoga

Yoga and the other Hindu traditions

PART TWO: PRE-CLASSICAL YOGA: Yoga in ancient times

The whispered wisdom of the early Upanishads

Jaina Yoga: the teachings of the victorious ford-makers

Yoga in Buddhism

The flowering of yoga

PART THREE: CLASSICAL YOGA: The history and literature of Patanjala-Yoga

The philosophy and practice of Patanjala-Yoga

PART FOUR: POST-CLASSICAL YOGA: The nondualist approach to God among the Shiva worshipers

The Vedantic approach to God among the Vishnu worshipers

Yoga and Yogins in the Puranas

The yogic idealism in the Yoga-Vasishtha

God, visions, and power: the Yoga-Upanishads

The Yoga in Sikhism

PART FIVE: POWER AND TRANSCENDENCE IN TANTRISM: The esotericism of medieval Tantra-Yoga

Yoga as spiritual alchemy: the philosophy and practice of Hatha-Yoga.