Surviving Modern Yoga

Author : Matthew Remski
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798889840114

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Grounded in investigative research and real survivor stories, Surviving Modern Yoga uncovers the physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by Ashtanga yoga leader Pattabhi Jois—and reckons with the culture, structures, and mythos that enabled it. The revised edition of Practice and All is Coming from Conspirituality co-host Matthew Remski Yoga culture sells well-meaning westerners the full package: physical health, good vibes, and spiritual growth. Here, investigative journalist Matthew Remski explores how cultic dynamics, institutional self-interest, and spiritualized indifference collude to obscure the truth: Harm happens in plain sight. Through in-depth interviews, insider analysis, and Remski’s own history with high-demand groups, Surviving Modern Yoga brings to light how we’re each susceptible to cult abuse and exploitation. He shows how, with the right kind of situational vulnerability and the wrong kind of guru, the ideas we hold close about ourselves—like It wouldn’t happen to me or I’d speak up for victims—fail to protect us. Remski reckons with his own complicity in spiritual power dynamics, and shares how a process of disillusionment allowed him to recognize harm. He does the same for readers, peeling back the veneer of yoga marketing to reveal the abuse, assault, and silencing perpetrated against seekers who trusted Jois as a mentor, their guruji—even a father figure. Each survivor speaks in their own words, on their own terms, reclaiming agency against an insular, in-group culture that enabled a charismatic leader’s devastating harm—and positioned him as its only remedy. Surviving Modern Yoga also includes practical tools to help readers: Understand how high-demand groups trap would-be targets Evaluate their own situational vulnerabilities Learn to listen for loaded, red-flag language Cultivate their literacy of cult tactics

Author : Theo Wildcroft,Harriet McAtee
Publisher : Singing Dragon
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781805011675

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The Yoga Teacher's Survival Guide by Theo Wildcroft,Harriet McAtee Pdf

This is a yoga book with a difference. In this guide, the authors embark on a ground-breaking exploration of the multifaceted challenges faced by yoga teachers in today's complex world. Drawing upon their experience in training yoga teachers, Theo Wildcroft and Harriet McAtee have compiled a collection of wisdom from some of the best-known and respected yoga teachers worldwide, including Peter Blackaby, Donna Farhi, Jivana Heyman, and Jules Mitchell. Through this collaboration, these experts address six key themes that resonate deeply within the yoga teaching community: critical thinking, honouring our sources, scientific enquiries, trauma, race and equity, and money and power. This book will teach yoga teachers what they need to know about honouring yoga's sources and surviving and thriving in the modern yoga industry.

Author : Duncan Peak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy, Indic
ISBN : 0992407907

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Modern Yoga by Duncan Peak Pdf

Modern Yoga is a complete program of personal transformation. The book shows a path through the traditions of yoga, meditation, personal development and physical yoga practice. It is the work of one of Australia's leading yogis, Duncan Peak, founder of Power Living Yoga Australia.

Author : Edward Clark,Laurie A. Greene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781000542974

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Teaching Contemporary Yoga by Edward Clark,Laurie A. Greene Pdf

Teaching Contemporary Yoga provides a novel look at how modern yoga is understood, practiced, and taught globally. Utilising perspectives from several academic disciplines, the authors offer an analysis of the current state of modern yoga and the possibilities for future experimentation and innovation. The authors draw on anthropological, performance, and embodiment theories to understand yoga practice as a potentially powerful ritual of transformation as well as a cultural product steeped in the process of meaning making. They craft a unique analysis that contrasts asana with the largely unexamined philosophy underlying the practice of vinyasa, while imagining a vibrant future for the evolution of yoga through excellence in teaching. Unlike other writings about yoga, the authors offer a critique of the current practice of yoga as both diminished and utilitarian, while providing a path to reinvigorating the discipline based on current scientific knowledge and methods for teaching and practice. Along with these theoretical perspectives and the analysis of contemporary yoga in the West, the authors offer practical applications to address the challenges of teaching yoga in a society where individualism and materialism are core values. Open-ended exercises in reflection and experimentation offer opportunities for readers to apply what they have learned to their teaching and personal practice. This is a vital guide for any yoga-oriented scholar, teacher, or practitioner and is an essential companion for contemporary teacher training.

Author : Ramesh Bjonnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1881717631

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A Brief History of Yoga by Ramesh Bjonnes Pdf

Yoga is growing in popularity all over the world today, yet misconceptions about its original purpose and ancient roots abound. In this refreshing tale of the history of yoga, the author unveils the true heart of the tradition. A Brief History of Yoga is essential reading for all those who care about the past and future evolution of yoga.

Author : Elliott Goldberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781620555682

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The Path of Modern Yoga by Elliott Goldberg Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Singleton,Jean Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134055203

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Yoga in the Modern World by Mark Singleton,Jean Byrne Pdf

Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon. Yoga has taken the world by storm and is even seeing renewed popularity in India. Both in India and abroad, adults, children and teenagers are practicing yoga in diverse settings; gyms, schools, home, work, yoga studios and temples. The yoga diaspora began well over a hundred years ago and we continue to see new manifestations and uses of Yoga in the modern world. As the first of its kind this collection draws together cutting edge scholarship in the field, focusing on the theory and practice of yoga in contemporary times. Offering a range of perspectives on yoga's contemporary manifestations, it maps the movement, development and consolidation of yoga in global settings. The collection features some of the most well-known authors within the field and newer voices. The contributions span a number of disciplines in the humanities, including, anthropology, Philosophy, Studies in Religion and Asian studies, offering a range of entry points to the issues involved in the study of the subject. As such, is of use to those involved in academic scholarship, as well as to the growing number of yoga practitioners who seek a deeper account of the origin and significance of the techniques and traditions they are engaging with. It will also-and perhaps most of all-speak to the growing numbers of 'scholar-practitioners' who straddle these two realms. Further resources and supporting material are available to view at www.yogainthemodernworld.com

Author : Tracey Winter Glover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1590565339

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Lotus of the Heart by Tracey Winter Glover Pdf

Interweaving sacred traditions with modern nutritional and environmental science, Lotus of the Heart is a guidebook for living well in today's challenging world. Arguing that what we do to others, we do to the planet and ourselves, Tracey Glover shows us how to release ourselves from the illusion of separation and see how we are truly connected in myriad ways--to our neighbors, our families, people who harvest the food on our plates, nonhuman animals, the environment, and life in its entirety. We learn the teachings and tools that yoga and other traditions offer us to return to our own most authentic selves, and find deep peace, health, and fullness for ourselves and all life. Lotus of the Heart is a call to see the truth of our interconnectedness and a manual for living in harmony with this essential wisdom.

Author : Vijay Hassin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Hatha yoga
ISBN : 0385130015

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The Modern Yoga Handbook by Vijay Hassin Pdf

Author : Elizabeth De Michelis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826487728

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A History of Modern Yoga by Elizabeth De Michelis Pdf

Please note: We can't take UK web orders at this time, but further information can be obtained by emailing [email protected]. US web orders are available now.

Author : Hannah K. Bartos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Yoga
ISBN : 0367530201

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Modern Transnational Yoga by Hannah K. Bartos Pdf

This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake a comparative analysis to explore why certain styles of yoga have successfully transcended geographical boundaries and endured over time, whilst others have dwindled and failed. Using fresh empirical data of the different ways in which posture practice was disseminated transnationally by Krishnamacharya, Sivananda and their leading disciples, the book provides an original perspective. The author draws upon extensive archival research and numerous fieldwork interviews in India and the UK to consider how the field of yoga we experience today was shaped by historic decisions about how it was transmitted. The book examines the specific ways in which a small group of yogis organised their practices and practitioners to popularise their styles of yoga to mainstream audiences outside of India. It suggests that one of the most overlooked contributions has been that of Sivananda Saraswati (1887-1963) for whom this study finds his early example acted as a cornerstone for the growth of posture practice. Outlining how yoga practice is organised today on the world stage, how leading brands fit into the wider field of modern yoga practice and how historical developments led to a mainstream globalised practice, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of Yoga Studies, Religious Studies, Hindu Studies, South Asian History, Sociology and Organisational Studies.

Author : Elizabeth De Michelis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Yoga
ISBN : OCLC:780181621

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A History of Modern Yoga by Elizabeth De Michelis Pdf

Author : Brandi Cowl
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781982257224

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The Modern Yogi by Brandi Cowl Pdf

We often hear that yoga is more than just a physical practice, but it can be tricky to understand why that is. Some think yoga is for people who love to get hot and sweaty. Others think of hippies sitting cross-legged meditating on peace, love and brown rice. But what if yoga could actually be a way to live a rich and rewarding lifestyle? A way to infuse meaning and depth into our everyday lives? To live on purpose and with intention? In The Modern Yogi, respected yoga teacher Brandi Cowl translates traditional yogic teachings into real, tangible and meaningful everyday practices. This book will resonate with any level of yogi who wants to understand the physical practice and the ancient yogic teachings in a modern way. Brandi shows us how yoga can help us take a step back from the racing, busy, swirling rush of modern life, and instead choose our own path forward. And with over one hundred and fifty pictures breaking down common yoga poses, it’s also a great way to better understand your own body and to deepen your physical practice. This book is about really living our yoga, both on our mats and in our lives.

Author : Joseph S. Alter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780691118741

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Yoga in Modern India by Joseph S. Alter Pdf

Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization and is regarded as being both timeless and unchanging. Based on research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, this book challenges this popular view by focusing on yoga's cultural production in modern India and its dramatically changing significance in the 20th century.

Author : Edward Clark (Yoga teacher),Laurie A. Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Hatha yoga
ISBN : 1032018771

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Teaching Contemporary Yoga by Edward Clark (Yoga teacher),Laurie A. Greene Pdf

Teaching Contemporary Yoga provides a novel look at modern yoga practice and yoga philosophy as living sciences.