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Modern Transnational Yoga

Author : Hannah K. Bartos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000367940
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Modern Transnational Yoga written by Hannah K. Bartos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake a comparative analysis to explore why certain styles of yoga have successfully transcended geographical boundaries and endured over time, whilst others have dwindled and failed. Using fresh empirical data of the different ways in which posture practice was disseminated transnationally by Krishnamacharya, Sivananda and their leading disciples, the book provides an original perspective. The author draws upon extensive archival research and numerous fieldwork interviews in India and the UK to consider how the field of yoga we experience today was shaped by historic decisions about how it was transmitted. The book examines the specific ways in which a small group of yogis organised their practices and practitioners to popularise their styles of yoga to mainstream audiences outside of India. It suggests that one of the most overlooked contributions has been that of Sivananda Saraswati (1887-1963) for whom this study finds his early example acted as a cornerstone for the growth of posture practice. Outlining how yoga practice is organised today on the world stage, how leading brands fit into the wider field of modern yoga practice and how historical developments led to a mainstream globalised practice, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of Yoga Studies, Religious Studies, Hindu Studies, South Asian History, Sociology and Organisational Studies.

Gurus of Modern Yoga

Author : Mark Singleton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199938725
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Gurus of Modern Yoga written by Mark Singleton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gurus of Modern Yoga explores the contributions that individual gurus have made to the formation of the practices and discourses of yoga in today's world.

Yoga Body

Author : Mark Singleton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195395344
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Yoga Body written by Mark Singleton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people assume that 'postural' yoga is an ancient Indian tradition. But in fact, as Singleton shows, this type of yoga is quite a recent development. Singleton presents a study of the origins of postural yoga, challenging many current notions about its nature and origins.

Embodying Transnational Yoga

Author : Christopher Jain Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000985210
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Embodying Transnational Yoga written by Christopher Jain Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodying Transnational Yoga is a refreshingly original, multi-sited ethnography of transnational yoga that obliges us to look beyond postural practice (āsana) in modern yoga research. The book introduces readers to three alternative, understudied categories of transnational yoga practice which include food, music, and breathing. Studying these categories of embodied practice using interdisciplinary methods reveals transformative “engaged alchemies” that have been extensively deployed by contemporary disseminators of yoga. Readers will encounter how South Asian dietary regimens, musical practices, and breathing techniques have been adapted into contemporaneous worlds of yoga practice both within, but also beyond, the Indian Ocean rim. The book brings the field of Modern Yoga Studies into productive dialogue with the fields of Indian Ocean Studies, Embodiment Studies, Food Studies, Ethnomusicology, and Pollution Studies. It will also be a valuable resource for both scholarly work and for teaching in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, and South Asian Religions.

Modern Transnational Yoga

Author : Hannah K. Bartos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000367967
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Modern Transnational Yoga written by Hannah K. Bartos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake a comparative analysis to explore why certain styles of yoga have successfully transcended geographical boundaries and endured over time, whilst others have dwindled and failed. Using fresh empirical data of the different ways in which posture practice was disseminated transnationally by Krishnamacharya, Sivananda and their leading disciples, the book provides an original perspective. The author draws upon extensive archival research and numerous fieldwork interviews in India and the UK to consider how the field of yoga we experience today was shaped by historic decisions about how it was transmitted. The book examines the specific ways in which a small group of yogis organised their practices and practitioners to popularise their styles of yoga to mainstream audiences outside of India. It suggests that one of the most overlooked contributions has been that of Sivananda Saraswati (1887-1963) for whom this study finds his early example acted as a cornerstone for the growth of posture practice. Outlining how yoga practice is organised today on the world stage, how leading brands fit into the wider field of modern yoga practice and how historical developments led to a mainstream globalised practice, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of Yoga Studies, Religious Studies, Hindu Studies, South Asian History, Sociology and Organisational Studies.

Is This Yoga?

Author : Anya Foxen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429750587
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Is This Yoga? written by Anya Foxen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Is This Yoga? Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Contemporary Practice recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts, traditions, social interests, and embodied practices, it raises questions of knowledge, identity, and power across time and space, including the dynamics of "East" and "West." The text is divided into three main sections: thematic concepts; histories; and topics in modern practice. This accessible guide is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching the topic for the first time, as well as yoga teachers, teacher training programs, casual and devoted practitioners, and interested non-practitioners.

Finding God Through Yoga

Author : David J. Neumann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469648651
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Finding God Through Yoga written by David J. Neumann and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this critical biography, David Neumann tells the story of Yogananda's fascinating life and interprets his position in religious history, transnational modernity, and American culture as a reverse missionary who intentionally preached his message of Hindu yogic philosophy in a land that routinely sent its own evangelists to India. Beginning with Yogananda's spiritual investigations in his native India, Neumann tells how this early "global guru" emigrated to the United States in 1920 and established his headquarters, the Self-Realization Order, in Los Angeles, where it continues today"--

Post-Lineage Yoga

Author : Theodora Wildcroft
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
ISBN 13 : 9781781799406
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Post-Lineage Yoga written by Theodora Wildcroft and published by Equinox Publishing (Indonesia). This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a ground-breaking model for scholars to understand the contemporary teaching and practice of yoga"--

Yoga Traveling

Author : Beatrix Hauser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319003151
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Yoga Traveling written by Beatrix Hauser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on yoga’s transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course of this process, the term “yoga” has been associated with various distinctive blends of mental and physical exercises performed in order to achieve some sort of improvement, whether understood in terms of esotericism, fitness, self-actualization, body aesthetics, or health care. The essays in this volume explore some of the turning points in yoga’s historico-spatial evolution and their relevance to its current appeal. The authors focus on central motivations, sites, and agents in the spread of posture-based yoga as well as on its successive (re-)interpretation and diversification, addressing questions such as: Why has yoga taken its various forms? How do time and place influence its meanings, social roles, and associated experiences? How does the transfer into new settings affect the ways in which yogic practice has been conceptualized as a system, and on what basis is it still identified as (Indian) yoga? The initial section of the volume concentrates on the re-evaluation of yoga in Indian and Western settings in the first half of the twentieth century. The following chapters link global discourses to particular local settings and explore meaning production at the micro-social level, taking Germany as the focal site. The final part of the book focuses on yoga advertising and consumption across national, social, and discursive boundaries, taking a closer look at transnational and deterritorialized yoga markets, as well as at various classes of mobile yoga practitioners.

Yoga in the Modern World

Author : Mark Singleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113405520X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Yoga in the Modern World written by Mark Singleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study to engage directly with the transformations and adaptations of yoga in the modern world. It addresses the dialectic and ideological exchange between yoga's ancient precursors and modern praxis, and the development and consolidation of yoga in global settings.

Sit Down, Be Quiet

Author : Michael James Wong
Publisher : HarperThorsons
ISBN 13 : 9780008249656
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Sit Down, Be Quiet written by Michael James Wong and published by HarperThorsons. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sit Down, Be Quiet" is a rallying call for men to step in and start taking control of their health and mental well-being. Through practising yoga - working inside as well as out - and adopting a mindful approach to the everyday, you can take the first steps to a healthier, happier life in the here and now, including: Basic yoga poses to get started - Meditation techniques and breathing practices - How to lead a calmer, more compassonate life by practising modern mindfulness - Stories, photos and inspiration from men who teach yoga all around the world.

Peace Love Yoga

Author : Andrea R. Jain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190888628
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Peace Love Yoga written by Andrea R. Jain and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Peace Love Yoga, Jain analyses growing spiritual industries and their coherence with neoliberal capitalism. "Personal growth," "self-care," and "transformation" are just some of the generative tropes in the narrative of these industries. Jain illuminates the power dynamics underlying what she calls neoliberal spirituality, illustrating how spiritual commodities are rooted in concerns about deviancy, not only in the form of low productivity but also forms of social deviancy. Jain, however, does not just offer one more voice bemoaning the commodification of spirituality as a numbing device through which consumers ignore the problems of neoliberal capitalism or as the corruption or loss of "authentic" religious forms. Instead, she asks what we should make of subversive spiritual discourses that call on adherents to think beyond the individual and even out into the environment, claims to counter the problems of unbridled capitalism with charitable giving or "conscious capitalism," challenges to the imperialism behind the appropriation and commodification of products from yoga to mindfulness, calls for women's empowerment, and efforts to greenwash commodities, making them more environmentally "friendly" or "sustainable." Rather than a mode through which consumers ignore, escape, or are numbed to the problems of neoliberal capitalism, many spiritual commodities, corporations, and entrepreneurs, Jain suggests, do actually acknowledge those problems and, in fact, subvert them; but they subvert them through mere gestures. From provocative taglines printed across t-shirts or packaging to calls for "conscious capitalism," commodification serves as a strategy through which subversion itself is contained"--

Yoga

Author : Debra Diamond
Publisher : Smithsonian Books
ISBN 13 : 1588344592
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Yoga written by Debra Diamond and published by Smithsonian Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation, October 19, 2013 - January 26, 2014. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 22-May 18, 2014, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 22-September 7, 2014."

The Goddess Pose

Author : Michelle Goldberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101874643
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Goddess Pose written by Michelle Goldberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who brought yoga to the West. When Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced around the world. Here Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who helped usher in a craze that continues unabated to this day. A sweeping picture of the twentieth century that travels from the cabarets of Berlin to the Mysore Palace to Golden Age Hollywood and beyond, The Goddess Pose brings the Devi’s little known but extraordinary adventures vividly to life.

Yoga in Transformation

Author : Karl Baier
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3737008620
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Yoga in Transformation written by Karl Baier and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2018 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.

Strong, Calm and Free

Author : Nicola Jane Hobbs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472979761
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Strong, Calm and Free written by Nicola Jane Hobbs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have always wanted to live more peacefully, love more fully, and discover a deeper, more meaningful spiritual life, yoga is the path. Heartfelt and deeply practical, Strong, Calm and Free brings alive the possibility of a life of inner peace, compassion and joy. Grounded in both modern science and ancient wisdom, this beautiful and inspiring book demystifies the philosophy and psychology of yoga, making the 4000-year old practice accessible for modern life. Whether you've never stepped foot on a yoga mat before or want to deepen your home practice, this beautifully-illustrated book is suitable for all abilities, gently guiding you through a ten-week journey of yoga sequences, meditations and mindful living practices that will build strength, bring insight and offer a path to healing and freedom. Written by holistic counsellor and international yoga and meditation teacher Nicola Jane Hobbs, Strong, Calm and Free shares the tools to help you navigate the peaks and valleys of modern life, to dispel the “I'm not good enough” myth that holds so many of us back and to experience the miracle of being yourself. By sharing her gentle wisdom alongside simple, practical exercises, Nicola invites you on a path of inner transformation. A mindful adventure of self-discovery. A journey towards health, happiness and wholeness. Towards strength, peace and freedom. Towards becoming fully and fearlessly who you are.

The Women's Health Big Book of Yoga

Author : Kathryn Budig
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 1609618394
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Women's Health Big Book of Yoga written by Kathryn Budig and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents postures and total body sequences, offers breathing and meditation techniques, provides advice on finding the right style of yoga and shares a nutrition plan centered around clean, calming foods.