1st Edition

Positioning Yoga Balancing Acts Across Cultures

By Sarah Strauss Copyright 2004
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

What is yoga? Stereotypical images of people practicing this ancient art range from white-bearded Indian mystics chanting 'om' on mountaintops to urban fitness fanatics contorted into uncomfortable looking positions. We recognize the name, but may not realize how the set of ideas and practices known as yoga moved from its birthplace on the Indian subcontinent to become a global phenomenon.... Read more
Re-Orienting Yoga * Lives and Histories: Rishikesh, Sivananda, and the Divine Life Society * Balancing Acts: Doing Yoga in Rishikesh * Moving Out: Yoga for a Transnational Community of Practice * Yoga: A Global Positioning System * Afterword: Virtual Yoga

Biography

Sarah Strauss is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wyoming .