Member: Jyotimitra

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Favorite authorsAnandamayi, Aurobindo, Swami Chidananda, Swami Chidvilasananda, Sri Chinmoy, Eknath Easwaran, Donna Farhi, Georg Feuerstein, David Frawley, Mahatma Gandhi, B.K.S. Iyengar, Harish Johari, Swami Muktananda, Osho, Swami Sivananda Radha, Swami Rama, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Sri S. Satchidananda, Swami Sivananda, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Swami Venkatesananda, Swami Vivekananda, Paramahansa Yogananda (Shared favorites)

About meI am a librarian and a yoga student, yoga practitioner and yoga teacher in the Satyananda Yoga tradition. I am also a bookaholic!!

About my libraryMy library, the Saraswati Library (Mitra Yoga Centre), which is associated with the Saraswati Library (Satyananda Yoga Academy Australia) - see LibraryThing 'Groups' - is my personal library of Yoga and related books, notably Tantra, Hinduism, and Indology, which I make available for loan to students and teachers of Satyananda Yoga Australia.

I have lots of other reading interests and books and one day I will get around to 'LibraryThinging' those! My main book collections, in addition to yoga, are in the subject areas of spirituality and religion (Eastern and Western); women's/femininst spirituality; art/craft; poetry: women's poetry, Eastern/Oriental poetry including Haiku, and spiritual poetry such as by Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz, Gibran, Mirabai; nature/environment/sacred space/spiritual ecology; and vegetarianism / vegetarian cookery.

I read fiction very rarely and when I do, I usually loan this from libraries rather than buy and retain it. The one fiction book I have kept on my shelf for many years though, because it is truly wonderful, is the 'Mists of Avalon' by Marion Zimmer-Bradley. My other memorable fiction read was 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver.

Homepagehttp://www.satyananda.net

LocationLangdons Hill, Victoria, Australia

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Member sinceApr 19, 2007