Yoga, Change and Embodied Enlightenment
Approaching Religion
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Nov 30, 2011
Pages:
p27 - 37
Sources ID:
112831
Collection:
Origins of Yoga Practice and Philosophy
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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Though it has been claimed that modern yoga retains little of its origins of religious austerity, I will argue that even if yoga as a physical practice has taken a strong position among the modern fitness trends, there are still important links to the philosophical and religious traditions of India – not least in the minds of many of its practitioners. Reorientations of these traditions to more modern settings have an impact on the practitioners’ bodies, and the embodied experience of the practice in turn influences yoga.