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Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis
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Yoga in Britain reveals how yoga came to be an accepted, mainstream activity in the twentieth century. During this period, yoga transformed from an esoteric concept into a something that would be taught to thousands of middle-class women in adult education classes. For the post-war welfare state, yoga was understood as having potential public benefit in promoting physical health and wellbeing. The structure of yoga classes which developed in this context established certification structures and secular, replicable class forms. This setting is crucial for understanding the methods and expectations found in globally popular forms of yoga. Moreover, yoga has not developed in a linear manner. Old and new forms co-exist, adapting to suit the specific needs of particular populations. In twentieth-first century Britain, yoga cannot be collapsed into a form of neoliberal commercialism or cultural appropriation, although these influences on yoga in Britain are also evident. Using extensive archival evidence and oral history interviews, the book reveals the diversity of individuals involved with the popularisation of yoga. In Britain, as throughout the globe, yoga continues to be understood and practiced in very distinctive ways by different people.
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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.”
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- Newcombe, S.
- Corresponding author
- Newcombe, Suzanne
- ORCID
- Newcombe, Suzanne
- Venue
- Equinox Publishing eBooks
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing
- Published
- 2019-06-01
- OpenAlex
- W2902525208
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 132
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 5.51
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Equinox Publishing eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Open Research Online (The Open University) (acceptedVersion)
- Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Sociology, History and Politics of Sport
- Keywords
- yoga, adult education, middle-class women, post-war welfare state, secularism, spirituality, neoliberalism, cultural appropriation, history of yoga, 20th century
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