A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western EsotericismA History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal's intellectual circles. In due course Raja Yoga, published by Vivekananda in 1896, became the seminal text of Modern Yoga largely because, the author shows, it reconfigured the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali along the lines of a then emerging New Age occultistic style of secularised and individualistically oriented religiosity. With regard to 20th century developments, this book proposes a four-fold typology of Modern Yoga comprising Modern Psychosomatic, Modern Meditational, Modern Postural and Modern Denominational forms. Iyengar Yoga, one of the most influential schools of Modern Postural Yoga, is then analyzed in the light of this framework, while the conclusion shows how a typical Modern Postural Yoga session may be interpreted to reveal the forms and contents of a healing ritual of secular religion. |
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... Modern Postural Yoga Class . Back cover illustration : Add . Ms. 24099. Reproduced by permission of The British Library . Khecarī - mudrā , lit. " Space - walking seal " : Ân advanced yogic practice in which the tongue is thrust upwards ...
... Modern Yoga Alternative medicine and New Age religiosity 181 183 New Age healing ...... . 184 ... and personal growth 185 Towards a typology of Modern Yoga 187 The development of Modern Postural Yoga : 1950s to date 190 Popularization ...
Patanjali and Western Esotericism Elizabeth De Michelis. 8. Conclusion : Modern Postural Yoga as healing ritual of secular religion 248 MPY in everyday life 248 The MPY practice session 251 MPY as healing ritual of secular religion 252 ...
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A History of Modern Yoga: Patañjali and Western Esotericism Elizabeth De Michelis No preview available - 2004 |
A History of Modern Yoga: Patan~jali and Western Esotericism Elizabeth De Michelis No preview available - 2014 |