Topic Research: Yoga

• A good source to begin with and branch outwards from is Wikipedia, they often have footnotes and sources from where contributors got their information.
• Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Asana is also a Wikipedia source but talks more about the poses and some of the background of them, I will also most likely try to branch out but I think this would be a good start.
• Another good source to begin with in order to get the basic knowledge about the poses in yoga is pocketyoga.com, here they have pictures with names of the poses so even if I don't use this source I think it will be useful.
• Here they talk about the asanas and how they got their names, I think reading up on the mythology of it will help to build and create my stories

• One story that I will most likely talk about deals with the warrior poses since this is often used in everyday practices. I think that knowing the history and story behind it will be good knowledge for my story telling as well as my own personal practice
• Another pose that I'm interested in learning about (but can't do yet) is the monkey pose. Reading a bit on it peeked my interest so I am looking forward to it.
• Another potential pose and story is the corpse pose or Savasana which is probably one of the hardest ones.

                             Hanuman holding a Namaste posture

Topic Brainstorm

I think a candidate for my storybook will be Hindu deities. Deities hold a special place in many cultures and can be the driving force when it comes to peoples' actions. Fortunately this topic is fairly broad so I will be able to do some serious research into it and learn plenty along the way!


A second topic that I'm interested to learn more about is yoga. I would like to think of myself as a yogi but I'm not quite there yet, though I do enjoy the practice. Yoga would be a great topic to write my storybook about because it could give me an opportunity to grow my practice. In addition to growing my practice I think learning about the history and traditions of yoga would be interesting.


A third topic that I hold very near and dear to my heart is travel! I think to learn about traveling India would be amazing and could give me a chance to plan my next trip even! I probably would also include traveling to temples and include some back stories and information on religious holidays. Another topic I could discuss in the traveling storybook is animal species and habitats because I believe ecotourism can be beneficial for broadening peoples' understandings of the local ecosystems and how the local people rely and interact with them.


The last topic I may use is Hindu creation stories. I think this would be a good topic for the storybook since we all have that question "how did we get here?" that we want answered. Creation stories are the way people try to answer that and many of them are very interesting to me. I'm always a sucker for a good creation story as they typically involve lots of gods and goddesses battling it out.

photo info: Battle of Lanka