The Serpent’s Tale: Kundalini, Yoga, and the History of an Experience
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The Yoga of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā: A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–13 and 55
The Yoga of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā: A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–13 and 55 …
The Quest for Liberation-in-Life: A Survey of Early Works on Haṭha- and Rājayoga
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From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices
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Peace, Love, Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality
Peace Love Yoga analyzes growing spiritual industries and their coherence with neoliberal capitalism. “Personal growth,” “self-care,” and “transformation” are just some of the generative tropes in the …
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The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga
Can the theory and practice of the yogic tradition serve as a challenge to dominant cultural and political norms in the Western world? In this essay I demonstrate that modern yoga is a creature of fab …
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The Yoga of Power: Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India
In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control the mind and body. This book argues for a wider un …
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Sinister Yogis
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-c …
Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires
Many people assume, largely because of Gandhi’s legacy, that Hinduism is a religion of non-violence. In this 2006 book William R. Pinch shows just how wrong this assumption is. Using the life of Anupg …
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Traditional Yoga Postures for Modern Geriatric Care Or Women’s Yoga Lineages of the Lambourn Valley
This article is a personal reflection on the evolution of Yoga teaching and practice in the United Kingdom as I have experienced it growing up and growing old(er) in the Lambourn Valley in Berkshire, in the South West of England