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Yellow light in the form of a cakra is displayed on a chest with hands in a mudrā.

Embodied Reception: South Asian Spiritualities in Contemporary Contexts

Edited by Henriette Hanky, Knut A. Jacobsen, and István Keul, this comprehensive work brings together contributions from renowned scholars in yoga studies and related fields. The book’s innovative approach introduces the concept of embodied reception, offering a fresh perspective on how practitioners’ bodies engage with and shape spiritual practices as they traverse cultural boundaries.

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People in a western-style yoga class doing a side stretch.

Fortunate Failures and Postural Yoga in North America

Reflections / author

In his latest book, Yogalands: In search of Practice on the Mat and in the World, Paul Bramadat used interviews, focus groups, site visits, class experiences, a survey, a teacher training program, theoretical inquiries, and auto-ethnography, to enter and take readers into the world of postural yoga.

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“Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation” by Christopher Jain Miller (Routledge 2024)

Reflections / Agi Wittich

Agi Wittich shares her view on the book by Christopher Jain Miller, Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation.

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