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Suggestive Therapeutics: New Thought’s Relationship to Modern Yoga

Phil Wildcroft

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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Sūryanamaskār: Tracing the Origins of Yoga’s Sun Salutation

Phil Wildcroft

In contemporary, globalised yoga, few practices are as widespread or as emblematic as sūryanamaskār (‘salutation to the sun’)

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Prostration or Potentiation? Hindu Ritual, Physical Culture, and the “Sun Salutation” (Sūryanamaskār)

Phil Wildcroft

The so-called “Sun Salutation” (S

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