The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America

Syman, Stefanie

ISBN 10: 0374236763 / ISBN 13: 9780374236762

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374236763
• ISBN 13: 9780374236762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga€™s transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar American industry.      Yoga€™s history in America is longer and richer than even its most devoted practitioners realize. It was present in Emerson€™s New England, and by the turn of the twentieth century it was fashionable among the leisure class. And yet when Americans first learned about yoga, what they learned was that it was a dangerous, alien practice that would corrupt body and soul.      A century later, you can find yoga in gyms, malls, and even hospitals, and the arrival of a yoga studio in a neighborhood is a signal of cosmopolitanism. How did it happen? It did so, Stefanie Syman explains, through a succession of charismatic yoga teachers, who risked charges of charlatanism as they promoted yoga in America, and thro

About the Author

Stefanie Syman, a literature graduate of Yale, was a founder of Feed, an early, award-winning Web magazine. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Yoga Journal. A native of Los Angeles, she lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and has practiced yoga for fifteen years.