The Institutionalization of the Yoga Tradition: “Gurus” B. K. S. Iyengar and Yogini Sunita in Britain
Chapter from Gurus Of Modern Yoga
Suzanne Newcombe
The Revival of Yoga in Contemporary India
In India, yoga is understood as a unique and valuable cultural resource that has the potential to revitalize both an individual’s health and the India …
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The Importance of Interrogating the Experiential Episteme: Yoga, Indian Medicine and Rhetorical Strategies of Epistemic Capital
Religion, Spirituality, and Public Health focuses on exploring the role of different ‘ways of knowing’ or arriving at truth, i.e. epistemes, particula …
Working with a Body: Flexible Conceptual Models in Contemporary Yoga
This chapter analyses two contrasting examples of yoga for health and healing, namely the popular American YouTuber Adriene Mishler and Swami Ramdev, …
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The Development of Modern Yoga: A Survey of the Field
This article will consider how the apparent dichotomy between yoga as a physical fitness activity (often termed ‘hatha yoga’) and/or as a ‘spiritual p …
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Spaces of Yoga: Towards a Non-Essentialist Understanding of Yoga
Chapter from Yoga In Transformation
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Yogis, Ayurveda, and Kayakalpa: The Rejuvenation of Pandit Malaviya
This article will consider the narrative and context around a particularly well-publicized incident of rejuvenation therapy, advertised as kāyakalpa ( …
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Magic and Yoga: The Role of Subcultures in Transcultural Exchange
Chapter from Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Yoga and Meditation as a Health Intervention
Chapter from Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies
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Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis
Yoga in Britain reveals how yoga came to be an accepted, mainstream activity
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