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“The haṭha yogin had always been an agent of ritual pollution for caste Hindus . . . This status is a key factor in the exclusion of the yogin from the Indian yoga renaissance.”
― Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
― Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
“The 1970s and 1980s were a period of consolidation for yoga in the West with the establishment and expansion of a significant number of dedicated schools and institutes. The period also saw a further, and enduring, rapprochement of yoga with the burgeoning New Age movement, which in many ways represents a new manifestation of yoga's century-old association with currents of esotericism. By the mid-1990s posture-based yoga had become thoroughly acculturated in many urban centers in the West. The 1990s "boom" turned yoga into an important commercial enterprise, with increasing levels of merchandising and commodification.”
― Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
― Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
“I have sought to avoid a methodological approach that negatively contrasts "modern yoga" against presumably more authentic, older forms of yoga. Of course, this is an appealing way to structure a study of modern yogas because it provides a ready-made framework for comparison and contrast: we hold up aspects of "modern yoga" against the template of "classical" forms and determine to what extent they converge with or diverge from the latter. For example, we might easily and convincingly demonstrate the discontinuities of logic, method, and soteriology between modern, international "hatha" yoga and the "classical" texts from which it claims to derive, such as Haṭhayogapradīpikā, Gheraṇḍasaṁhitā, and Śivasaṃhitā. Implicit in this approach, however, is the sense that such divergences are errors and that modern yoga is flawed precisely to the extent that it departs from the perceived tradition.”
― Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
― Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
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