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Bezig met laden... The path of modern yoga : the history of an embodied spiritual practice (editie 2016)door Elliott Goldberg (Compiler), Shri Yogendra (Medewerker), Swami Kuvalayanda (Medewerker), K. V. Iyer (Medewerker), Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi (Medewerker) — 8 meer, Krishnamacgarya (Medewerker), Louise Morgan (Medewerker), Apa Pant (Medewerker), Indra Devi (Medewerker), B. K. S. Iyengar (Medewerker), Karl Baier (Voorwoord), Aaron Davis (Omslagontwerper), Virginia Scott Bowman (Ontwerper)
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A history of yoga's transformation from sacred discipline to exercise program to embodied spiritual practice * Identifies the origin of exercise yoga as India's response to the mania for exercise sweeping the West in the early 20th century * Examines yoga's transformations through the lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures, including Sri Yogendra, K. V. Iyer, Louise Morgan, Krishnamacharya, Swami Sivananda, Indra Devi, and B. K. S. Iyengar * Draws on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources and includes 99 illustrations In The Path of Modern Yoga, Elliott Goldberg shows how yoga was transformed from a sacred practice into a health and fitness regime for middle-class Indians in the early 20th century and then gradually transformed over the course of the 20th century into an embodied spiritual practice--a yoga for our times. Drawing on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources as well as recent scholarship, Goldberg tells the sweeping story of modern yoga through the remarkable lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures: six Indian yogis (Sri Yogendra, Swami Kuvalayananda, S. Sundaram, T. Krishnamacharya, Swami Sivananda, and B. K. S. Iyengar), an Indian bodybuilder (K. V. Iyer), a rajah (Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi), an American-born journalist (Louise Morgan), an Indian diplomat (Apa Pant), and a Russian-born yogi trained in India (Indra Devi). The author places their achievements within the context of such Western trends as the physical culture movement, the commodification of exercise, militant nationalism, jazz age popular entertainment, the quest for youth and beauty, and 19th-century New Age religion. In chronicling how the transformation of yoga from sacred discipline to exercise program allowed for the creation of an embodied spiritual practice, Goldberg presents an original, authoritative, provocative, and illuminating interpretation of the history of modern yoga. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar) are a prime feature in modern American yoga practice. I've done a moderate amount of yoga and I have to confess that I continue to struggle somewhat. My way into yoga was actually the ability to do padmasana fairly well. This pose is not easy for the majority of people outside of India as most people in the world do not sit cross-legged on the floor beyond age 7 or 8. My bone structure allows me to do this comfortably (the angle of the the femur bone into the hip socket) as I have the random genes ideal for this posture.(See page 184). Uttanasana is difficult for me. I do uddiyana and nauli for bowel situations -- these practices are not mentioned in the book.
However this is a good reference book for the history of the yoga practice and the people from India and America who propelled its popularity. ( )