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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. Drawing on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources as well as recent scholarship, Goldberg tells the sweeping story of modern yoga through the remarkable lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures: six Indian yogis (Sri Yogendra, Swami Kuvalayananda, S. Sundaram, T. Krishnamacharya, Swami Sivananda, and B. K. S. Iyengar), an Indian bodybuilder (K. V. Iyer), a rajah (Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi), an American-born journalist (Louise Morgan), an Indian diplomat (Apa Pant), and a Russian-born yogi trained in India (Indra Devi). The author places their achievements within the context of such Western trends as the physical culture movement, the commodification of exercise, militant nationalism, jazz age popular entertainment, the quest for youth and beauty, and 19th-century New Age religion. In chronicling how the transformation of yoga from sacred discipline to exercise program allowed for the creation of an embodied spiritual practice, Goldberg presents an original, authoritative, provocative, and illuminating interpretation of the history of modern yoga.

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Publisher
Inner Traditions International, The Limited
ISBN-10
1620555670
ISBN-13
9781620555675
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219166214

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Book Title
Path of Modern Yoga : the History of an Embodied Spiritual Practice
Author
Elliott Goldberg
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Exercise, Mysticism, Asia / India & South Asia, Yoga
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Health & Fitness, History
Number of Pages
512 Pages

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10in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
44.6 Oz

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Rm727.Y64
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Drawing on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources, as well as recent scholarship, this new book 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. In chronicling how the transformation of yoga from sacred discipline to exercise platform allowed for the creation of an embodied spiritual practice, Goldberg presents an original, authoritative, provocative, and illuminating interpretation of the history of modern yoga., The Path of Modern Yoga is a celebration of yoga in body, mind, and spirit. This book will especially touch the hearts of readers who love history or love the path of yoga., The fruit of many years' research and reflection, Goldberg's long-awaited study combines rich cultural history with practical insights into embodied yoga practice (partly based on his in-depth knowledge of contemporary exercise science). It is wide-ranging and well written, presenting the broader social contexts of yoga's global flourishing as a backdrop to a careful examination of some of its most influential teachers. I welcome and applaud this book.
Table of Content
Foreword by Karl Baier, Ph.D. Acknowledgments Part I Divesting Yoga of the Sacred Yogic Physical Culture and Health Cure 1 Shri Yogendra Rejecting the Role of Yoga Guru 2 Shri Yogendra Creating the Profession of Yoga Teacher: The Yoga Class 3 Shri Yogendra Making Yoga into Calisthenics 4 Shri Yogendra Taking Practical Yoga to the New World: Hatha Yoga in America 5 Shri Yogendra Making Yoga Gentle 6 Swami Kuvalayananda Claiming Yoga Is Science 7 Swami Kuvalayananda Promoting Yoga as Health Cure: A Yoga Journal and Yoga Institute 8 Swami Kuvalayananda Investigating the Yogic Phenomena: Yoga Research 9 Swami Kuvalayananda Standing Up Straight: Yoga and Good Posture 10 Swami Kuvalayananda Youthifying the Spine: Yoga and Chiropractic 11 K. V. Iyer Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga 12 S. Sundaram Publishing a Yoga Manual 13 S. Sundaram Meditating on the Body in Yoga Part II Making Yoga Dynamic The Sun Salutations as Yogic Exercise 14 Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi Reviving Surya Namaskar 15 Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi Promoting Surya Namaskar as Health Cure and Strengthening Exercise 16 Bhavanarao Pant Pratinidhi Making Surya Namaskar a Part of Physical Education: Mass Exercise 17 T. Krishnamacharya Keeping the Flame: Yoga at the Palace 18 T. Krishnamacharya Incorporating Contortion into Yoga 19 T. Krishnamacharya Infusing Yoga with Surya Namaskar: Yoga as Performance 20 K. V. Iyer Mixing Bodybuilding and Yoga at the Palace 21 K. V. Iyer Presenting Surya Namaskar as Stretching Exercise 22 Louise Morgan Making Surya Namaskar into an Elixir for Western Women 23 Louise Morgan Pointing the Way to Health through Surya Namaskar 24 Louise Morgan Becoming Aware of the Body in Surya Namaskar 25 Apa Pant Making Surya Namaskar into a Meditation 26 Swami Sivananda Using Surya Namaskar as a Warm-up Exercise for Yoga Part III Making Yoga Sacred Again Yogic Embodied Spirituality 27 Indra Devi Becoming a Western, Female Yoga Teacher 28 Indra Devi Treating Anxiety with Yoga 29 B. K. S. Iyengar Enduring Cruelty: A Yoga Student 30 B. K. S. Iyengar Making Yoga Fierce: A Yoga Teacher 31 B. K. S. Iyengar Making Yoga All-Encompassing 32 B. K. S. Iyengar Making Yoga Precise 33 B. K. S. Iyengar Spiritualizing the Domain of Acrobatics: Asana Practice as the Eight-Limbed Path 34 B. K. S. Iyengar Making Asana Practice into a Meditation of Insight 35 B. K. S. Iyengar Teaching Asana as Embodied Spirituality Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-047711
Dewey Decimal
613.7/046
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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