{"product_id":"yoga-body-the-origins-of-modern-posture-practice-paperback","title":"Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Singleton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoga 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (a\u003cem\u003esana\u003c\/em\u003e) 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 \u003cem\u003easana\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cbr\u003eBikram and \"Hatha\" yoga, came to be the hugely popular phenomena they are today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing 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 \u003cem\u003easana\u003c\/em\u003e revival, \u003cem\u003eYoga Body\u003c\/em\u003e turns the conventional wisdom about yoga on its head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Singleton\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eYoga in the Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8.52 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 10, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52597135933747,"sku":"9780195395341","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/djQySnNoUXdyUlZRWHVNd3FaemtvZz09.webp?v=1761713655","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/yoga-body-the-origins-of-modern-posture-practice-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}