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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (Paperback) by Mark Singleton
Product Code: Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Availability: In Stock
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Price: $43.00
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Released: 2010
Yoga Body ? The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (Paperback)
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. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents
claim?
In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (?sana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions of people across the world today. Singleton shows that, contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence in the Indian tradition for the kind of health and fitness-oriented ?sana practice that dominates the global yoga scene of the twenty-first century. Singleton's surprising--and surely controversial--thesis is that yoga as it is popularly practiced today owes a greater debt to modern Indian nationalism and, even more surprisingly, to the spiritual aspirations of European bodybuilding and early 20th-century women's gymnastic movements of Europe and America, than it does to any ancient Indian yoga tradition. This discovery enables Singleton to explain, as no one has done before, how the most prevalent forms of postural yoga, like Ashtanga, Bikram and "Hatha" yoga, came to be the hugely popular phenomena they are today.
Drawing on a wealth of rare documents from archives in India, the UK and the USA, as well as interviews with the few remaining, now very elderly figures in the 1930s Mysore sana revival, Yoga Body turns the conventional wisdom about yoga on its head.
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Specifications of Yoga Body ? The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (Paperback)
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher- Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Year- 2010
ISBN-13 9780195395341
ISBN-10 0195395344
Language- English
Binding- Paperback
Number of Pages- 262 Pages
DIMENSIONS
Width- 5.30
Height- 0.73
Depth- 19.8
Weight- 376
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