Calcutta Yoga: Buddha Bose & the Yoga Family of Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda

Book Summary: In the 1930s, Buddha became a part of the Bhagabati Ghosh family, who welcomed Buddha into their home at 4 Garpar Road in North Calcutta. Buddha married the daughter of his yogic physical culture teacher, Bishnu Charan Ghosh, and was initiated into the spiritual lineage from the brother known as Paramhansa Yogananda. The trio of Buddha, Bishnu and Yogananda, found their roots in ancient Indian spirituality, Hatha and Kriya yoga. In the 1940s crisis hits both family and city. In the 1950s to 70s they would help bring yoga to Europe, with Gouri Shankar Mukerji, to Japan, and to America, with Bikram Choudhury. During the 20th century, the Calcutta yoga family would modernize and bring the practice of yoga to the world. "This over 600 page tome is the culmination of many years of deep research and archival work in the field by Armstrong, tracing the untold story and history of Buddha Bose and the yoga family of Paramahansa Yogananda and his brother Bishnu Ghosh. This is a must read if you are curious about where "hot yoga" comes from, and the history of modern yoga and physical culture in India." --Yogic Studies""Jerome Armstrong, author of Calcutta Yoga," tells the "largely untold story of Buddha Bose & the Yoga Family of Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda, and how that led to Bikram Yoga. Jerome also speaks to his own experience of practicing both standard hot yoga and the more traditional teachings of Ghosh Yoga, and the crazy turn of events that led to the discovery of a rare document and a relationship to the family." -- J. Brown Yoga Podcast"Nobody stays in Calcutta for a long time without getting involved, in one way or the other. I can feel how deeply you are now linked and it moves me. The way you write about it all, interweaving historical facts with your own experiences. The result is a book which is neither an autobiography nor a purely scientific work - quite a unique mixture." --Claudia Guggenbuhl, Yoga in Calcutta.