An edition of Yoga body
(2010)
Yoga body
the origins of modern posture practice
by Mark Singleton
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Yoga body: the origins of modern posture practice
2010, Oxford University Press
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0195395344 9780195395341
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Table of Contents
Introduction
An outline of the project
Sources, methods and demarcations
Transnational anglophone yoga
Primary and secondary sources
Orientalism
Representations of yoga : methodological considerations
The academic study of modern yoga
Postwar developments in transnational yoga 1 : a brief overview of yoga in the Indian traditions
Yoga in traditional Hinduism
Hatha yoga
Transnational "hatha" yoga
Fakirs, yogins, Europeans
Early European encounters fighting yogins and bhakti ascendancy
Nineteenth century scholarship
Hatha yoga in translation
S.C. Vasu and the sacred books of the Hindus
Vasu and the hatha yogin
Basu, Dayananda, Paul : the roots of modern medical hatha yoga
Popular portrayals of the yogi
The topos of the performing yogi
"The most stoopendous marvel of the age" : Yogi Bava Lachman Dass
The posture master and European contortionism
The yogi-fakir as magician
Anti-hatha sentiment in Vivekananda
Vivekananda and Müller
Fakir's avenue : Blavatsky and hatha yoga
Anti-hatha tendencies in early popular yoga primers
India and the international physical culture movement
The dawn of nationalist physical culture
Scandinavian gymnastics
Ling and yoga
Sandow and bodybuilding
Young Men's Christian Association
Modern Indian physical culture : degeneracy and experimentation
Physical culture as eugenics
Nationalist physical culture
Hatha yoga and feats of strength
Other early syntheses
Yoga as physical culture I : strength and vigour
Contexts of physical culture as yoga
Kuvalayananda
Yogendra and the domestication of yoga
Iyer, Sundaram, Balsekar : yoga body beautiful
The new thought yogis
New thought and the body
Yogi Gherwal
West Coast yogis : Wassan, Hari Rama, Bhagwan Gyanee
Yoga as physical culture II : harmonial gymnastics and esoteric dance
Genevieve Stebbins and American delsartism
Glands for God : Cajzoran Ali
Harmonial gymnastics in Britain
German gymnastik and the Somatics movement
Yoga in mainstream western physical culture
Women's stretching regimes
Gendered yogas
The medium and the message : visual reproduction and the Asana revival
Tradition and modernity in Indian art
The pictorial postural yoga manual
T. Krishnamacharya and the Mysore Asana revival
The Maharaja and the Mysore Physical Culture movement
Suryanamaskar and palace physical education yoga Kurunta and the origins of Ashtanga Vinyasa skillful means : pragmatism in Krishnamacharya's yoga demonstrations : yoga as spectacle
Dissent
Gymnastics Indian and foreign : the derivation of the Mysore style foreign
Indian
Modernity in tradition.
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