The Classical Reveries of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Constructive Orientalism
Chapter from Yoga in the Modern World
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Mark Singleton
Yoga Makarana of T. Krishnamacharya
Chapter in Yoga in Practice
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Transnational Exchange and the Genesis of Modern Postural Yoga
Chapter from Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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The Classical Reveries of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Constructive Orientalism
The installation of the YS as the Classical Yoga text in the modern age is bound up with several dialectically interlinked, ideological currents. These include colonial translation projects intended t …
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Suggestive Therapeutics: New Thought’s Relationship to Modern Yoga
Modern, transnational yoga in the early twentieth century often defined itself in terms and ideologies borrowed from the popular current of esoteric American Protestantism known as New Thought
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls–that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted
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