Yoga Body

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“However, the recent scholarship complicates these views and establishes that yoga has a multilinear and transnational history (Alter 2004; Singleton 2010; Newcombe 2019).”

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“Modern yoga forms have their origins in the colonial encounter in India, from the beginning of the colonial period through to the mid twentieth century (Alter 2004; De Michelis 2004; Singleton 2010; Goldberg 2016; Newcombe 2019; Shearer 2020).”

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“As Mark Singleton suggests, 'yoga' in reference to modern postural practice is best considered 'a homonym , and not a synonym' of the yoga forms associated with ancient and classical texts (2010, 15).”

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“Over this period, yoga was gradually re-framed in medical and para-medical terms as a practice for building and maintaining health, strength, and fitness, such that a modern, hybrid, and largely body-focused form of (neo) hatha yoga had developed in India by the time of its independence in 1947 (Singleton 2010).”

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“In short, modern asana practice, as shaped by Yogendra, Kuvalayananda and others in early twentieth century India through the influences of European physical cultural movements and Indian nationalism, then 'returned' to the West from around the mid-twentieth century in the guise of 'pure' Indian physical culture (see Singleton 2010, 152).”