Nice to hear that you are doing classical yoga. Well, Bikram Yoga was founded by Bikram Choudhury, a Bengali. As named, there is different kinds of yoga, but they all do raw yoga at last, maybe starting is different. As for me, I do never think about those soul(atma) or paramaatma. For me just concentration on it & do it in proper way. I have a cultural heritage which is in our blood, in our soil. That's not means everyone doing them here. There is some real good books here in Bengali & in other languages. Can't much say about others, coz there is so many languages in India. I did follow a great book earlier & my family members. I must say some greatest from Bengali community, has given great influence of doing Yoga & MEDITATION in India and abroad. Like Swami Vivekananda & his spiritual guru Ramakrishna Paramhansa, then Swami Pranavananda, Lokenath Brahmachari, Bamakhepa, Sri Aurobindo and so on. There is some great names from other subgroups of Hindu community, like Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Swami Sivananda, B.K.S. Iyengar, Paramahansa Yogananda, K. Pattabhi and so. Whatever, we are just normal people who did or doing it for better living.

You're from great community, a lot of famous names! I like Svami Sivananda books, they helped me much when I started yoga and also now I like to reread them.

There is more names from literature, science, freedom fight etc. I'm proud. You are lucky, I still don't read any book of Swami Sivananda. I read some books of Swami Vivekananda. They are so hard to read, not for language though. They are in Bengali(my mother language). But for the spiritualism & inner meaning of those books or words. I do remember, I stopped reading in middle.

I read Svami Sivananda boks in Russian :)), they are not difficult to read at all. They are very practical - about yoga, health and yoga therapy.Very useful books for those who follow yoga way!

All you chicks doing yoga must be quite flexible

Yes obviously. One thing is common, they can kick very hard...

I went through the Yoga phase when I tried to b*** myself.

Wow, quite a few comments and mostly positive.

Stay healthy ya'll.

Yogi n Pilates are fantastic both leave you feelin rejuvenated n wantin more.
keep going trust me you'll eventually be addicted n love it.

Yoga is my favourite exercise...i love it...it's great for mind and body...