Yoga as Synthesis. Yoga as Revival. Eugeniusz Polończyk’s Vision of Yoga. Contribution to the Study of the History of Yoga in Interwar Poland
Journal: Studia Religiologica
Year: 2017

The study of the history of yoga in Poland has only just begun, and knowledge about the earliest stages of the reception of the idea in thi country is so far negligible. This paper is an attempt to broaden the current state of knowledge on yoga in Poland in the interwar period. It focuses on the interpretation/understanding of yoga presented by Eugeniusz Poloczyk (?-1932), a medical doctor, social activist and esotericist. Poloczyk's interpretation of yoga forms an integral part of his socio-pol