The inspiration for setting up Harmony Publishing came from Theos Bernard’s classic book ‘Hatha Yoga, The Report of a Personal Experience’, combined with avoiding rip-off publishers for my own book ‘The Art of Adjusting’.

I read Bernard’s book almost 40 years ago and I suspect it cast a spell on me. For someone new to yoga, its language was obscure, esoteric and mysterious. And yet-and this is the important thing-this was no text immersed in fantasy or wild claims, but a sober and modest account of difficult practices requiring tremendous commitment and self-discipline. I re-visited this book many years later with a view to using it in my teacher training courses. I had assumed that my now battered and dog-eared version was still in print and was amazed to find it had been out of print for years.The story goes that Bernard’s book was the standard text for aspiring yogis until Iyengar’s ‘Light on Yoga’ came on the scene and usurped it. Wonderful as Iyengar’s book is, it does not provide the reader with an account of an intense immersion in Hatha Yoga.

There were second hand copies around at some absurd prices, and so it was time a new and inexpensive edition was made available.

My own book is now it its third edition and being used by teacher training programmes around the world.

Other books have followed, including the much-underated classic, Andre van Lysbeth’s ‘Pranayama’. Like Bernard’s book, it has an authenticity and down to earthness about it which is so refreshing in today’s climate of airy fairy new-age nonsense clearly written by people with little first hand experience of real practices.

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