Isbn Yoga Body ( The Origins of Modern Posture Practice ) book English Paperback 272 pages

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Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world - practiced by pop stars taught in schools and offered in yoga centers health clubs and even shopping malls - that we take its presence and its meaning for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (?sana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions of people across the world today. Singleton shows that contrary to popular belief there is no evidence in the Indian tradition for the kind of health and fitness-oriented ?sana practice that dominates the global yoga scene of the twenty-first century. 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. This discovery enables Singleton to explain as no one has done before how the most prevalent forms of postural yoga like Ashtanga Bikram and Hatha yoga came to be the hugely popular phenomena they are today. Drawing on a wealth of rare documents from archives in India the UK and the USA as well as interviews with the few remaining now very elderly figures in the 1930s Mysore ?sana revival Yoga Body turns the conventional wisdom about yoga on its head.