21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics, and Practice

Yoga may be rooted in ancient India, but it’s morphed into something new in North America today.

Precisely what that might be, however, is difficult to say. Yoga is taught everywhere from spas to prisons, and foreverything from weight loss to spiritual transcendence. With its chameleon-like ability to adapt equally well to advertising, athletics, and ashrams, contemporary yoga is a fascinating phenomenon that invites investigation.

Written by experienced practitioners who are also teachers, therapists, activists, scholars, studio owners, and interfaith ministers, 21st Century Yoga is one of the first books to provide a multi-faceted examination of yoga as it actually exists in contemporary North America. Key themes addressed in the essays include:

- The significance of the body in yoga culture

- Yoga’s capacities and limitations as a healing modality

- Mind/body splits in the yoga and Zen communities

- Healing anorexia through yoga

- Holistic recovery through yoga and the 12 Steps

- Social engagement and interdependence

- Imagination, rationality, and consciousness

- Contemporary spirituality

- Yoga and the practice of writing

• Author
• Carol Horton, Roseanne Harvey, Frank Jude Boccio, Angela Jamison, Melanie Klein, Matthew Remski, Chelsea Roff, Tommy Rosen, Be Scofield, Nathan Thompson, Julian Walker, Michael Stone

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 220

• Publisher
• Kleio Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-615-61760-2

• EAN
• 9780615617602

• Genres
• anthologies, essays, spirituality

• Release date
• 2012