Yoga Makarana of T. Krishnamacharya
Chapter in Yoga in Practice
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Modern Yoga
Yoga in Modern Society
Over the past three decades, yoga has become a real trend in the fitness and wellness industry, but what effect does the practice have on the lives of …
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Positioning Yoga: Balancing Acts Across Cultures
Positioning Yoga considers how the recent development of yoga, from its introduction to Western audiences by the Indian Swami Vivekananda at the 1893 …
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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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Manufacturing Yogis: Swami Vivekananda as a Yoga Teacher
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) was the first Indian to teach yoga in the West. This study examines his life and background and his participation in the …
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The Master’s Narrative: Swami Sivananda and the Transnational Production of Yoga
The Master’s Narrative: Swami Sivananda and the Transnational Production of Yoga
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Adapt, Adjust, Accomodate’: The Production of Yoga in a Transnational World
In this paper, Sivananda’s own poetry and the many pamphlets and books produced by this noted swami, his contemporaries, and his successors through th …
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Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture
This book explores how modern yoga became transformed from a largely countercultural phenomenon to a part of pop culture when entrepreneurs became strategic participants in a global market and succeed …
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