The path of modern yoga
Subtitle: the history of an embodied spiritual practice
By: Elliott Goldberg
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9781620555675
Subjects: Yoga; History
Other titles: Modern yoga
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Divesting yoga of the sacred : yogic physical culture and health cure; title: Making yoga dynamic : the sun salutations as yogic exercise; title: Making yoga sacred again : yogic embodied spirituality.