India

Chapter from Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies

The word yoga refers to a multi-faceted array of beliefs and practices

This book traces the developmental years of the Ashtanga Yoga tradition of K

A History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal’s intellectual circles

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

This chapter aims to show how the 19th-century revival of vyāyāma became a source for modern yoga to emerge in India during the first half of the 20th century

This paper examines yoga āsana and vyāyāma instruction from Bengal in the twentieth century