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Can I read Yoga Body : The Origins of Modern Posture Practice on EtoBox?
Yoga Body : The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Yoga Body : The Origins of Modern Posture Practice about?
In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton shows that, contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence in the Indian tradition for the kind of health and fitness-oriented asana practice that dominates the global yoga scene today. Singleton's surprising--and surely controversial --thesis is that yoga as it is popularly practiced today owes a greater debt to modern Indian nationalism and, even more surprisingly, to the spiritual aspirations of European bodybuilding and early 20th-century women's
Who reads Yoga Body : The Origins of Modern Posture Practice?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark Singleton
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199745982
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Fiction, Religion
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (310 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14