Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis

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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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“Historical research has shown that yoga was indeed promoted to women in Germany and in the UK in the early to mid-20 th century as a way to enhance feminine markers of health such as beauty and youth (Newcombe 2019; Hauser n.d).”

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“Indeed, the practices labelled 'yoga' are so vast that '(I)t is only by considering yoga in precise locations that statements about its significance and effects can have any meaning' (Newcombe 2019, 4).”

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“Newcombe (2019) demonstrates how the promotion and popularisation of yoga in the UK in the twentieth century were embedded in health narratives entangled with beauty ideals for women, for instance, while yoga was promoted to men as a practice to improve strength.”

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“Socially, this dual position that yoga occupies echoes its earlier history of simultaneously existing as an elite and as a counter-cultural practice (see e.g., Goldberg 2016; Newcombe 2019; Shearer 2020).”

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“Since the 1980s, yoga has become embedded alongside other wellness related practices within healthcare systems that treat health as a social good (Newcombe 2019) and allocate the responsibility for keeping healthy to the individual.”