Yoga body
Subtitle: the origins of modern posture practice
By: Mark Singleton.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780195395341; 9780195395358
Subjects: Hatha yoga; Posture
Description: This volume examines the roots and early development of modern hatha (postural) yoga. The author concentrates on the transition from the classical conception of yoga as a philosophical system to the version we recognize today. He argues that the popularly practiced yoga of 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 gymnastics movements of Europe and America, than it does to any ancient Indian yoga tradition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: An outline of the project; title: Sources, methods and demarcations; title: Transnational anglophone yoga; title: Primary and secondary sources; title: Orientalism; title: Representations of yoga : methodological considerations; title: The academic study of modern yoga; title: Postwar developments in transnational yoga 1 : a brief overview of yoga in the Indian traditions; title: Yoga in traditional Hinduism; title: Hatha yoga; title: Transnational "hatha" yoga; title: Fakirs, yogins, Europeans; title: Early European encounters fighting yogins and bhakti ascendancy; title: Nineteenth century scholarship; title: Hatha yoga in translation; title: S.C. Vasu and the sacred books of the Hindus; title: Vasu and the hatha yogin; title: Basu, Dayananda, Paul : the roots of modern medical hatha yoga; title: Popular portrayals of the yogi; title: The topos of the performing yogi; title: "The most stoopendous marvel of the age" : Yogi Bava Lachman Dass; title: The posture master and European contortionism; title: The yogi-fakir as magician; title: Anti-hatha sentiment in Vivekananda; title: Vivekananda and Müller; title: Fakir's avenue : Blavatsky and hatha yoga; title: Anti-hatha tendencies in early popular yoga primers; title: India and the international physical culture movement; title: The dawn of nationalist physical culture; title: Scandinavian gymnastics; title: Ling and yoga; title: Sandow and bodybuilding; title: Young Men's Christian Association; title: Modern Indian physical culture : degeneracy and experimentation; title: Physical culture as eugenics; title: Nationalist physical culture; title: Hatha yoga and feats of strength; title: Other early syntheses; title: Yoga as physical culture I : strength and vigour; title: Contexts of physical culture as yoga; title: Kuvalayananda; title: Yogendra and the domestication of yoga; title: Iyer, Sundaram, Balsekar : yoga body beautiful; title: The new thought yogis; title: New thought and the body; title: Yogi Gherwal; title: West Coast yogis : Wassan, Hari Rama, Bhagwan Gyanee; title: Yoga as physical culture II : harmonial gymnastics and esoteric dance; title: Genevieve Stebbins and American delsartism; title: Glands for God : Cajzoran Ali; title: Harmonial gymnastics in Britain; title: German gymnastik and the Somatics movement; title: Yoga in mainstream western physical culture; title: Women's stretching regimes; title: Gendered yogas; title: The medium and the message : visual reproduction and the Asana revival; title: Tradition and modernity in Indian art; title: The pictorial postural yoga manual; title: T. Krishnamacharya and the Mysore Asana revival; title: The Maharaja and the Mysore Physical Culture movement; title: Suryanamaskar and palace physical education yoga Kurunta and the origins of Ashtanga Vinyasa skillful means : pragmatism in Krishnamacharya's yoga demonstrations : yoga as spectacle; title: Dissent; title: Gymnastics Indian and foreign : the derivation of the Mysore style foreign; title: Indian; title: Modernity in tradition.