Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice

Singleton, Mark

ISBN 10: 0195395344 / ISBN 13: 9780195395341

Published by Oxford University Press, 2010

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Synopsis:

In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton shows that, contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence in the Indian tradition for the kind of health and fitness-oriented asana practice that dominates the global yoga scene today. Singleton's surprising--and surely controversial --thesis is that yoga as it is popularly practiced 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 gymnastic movements of Europe and America, than it does to any ancient Indian yoga tradition.

About the Author: Mark Singleton is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS, University of London. He is the editor, with Jean Byrne, of Yoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives. He lives in London.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good