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What Mark Singleton does prove, with massive, irrefutable, fascinating and often hilarious evidence, is that yoga is a rich, multi-cultural, constantly changing inter-disciplinary construction, far from the pure line that its adherents often claim for it. Wendy Doniger, Times Literary Supplement
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Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (asana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions of people across the world today. 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 of the twenty-first century. 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 gymnastic movements of Europe and America, than it does to any ancient Indian yoga tradition. This discovery enables Singleton to explain, as no one has done before, how the most prevalent forms of postural yoga, like Ashtanga, Bikram and "Hatha" yoga, came to be the hugely popular phenomena they are today. Drawing on a wealth of rare documents from archives in India, the UK and the USA, as well as interviews with the few remaining, now very elderly figures in the 1930s Mysore asana revival, Yoga Body turns the conventional wisdom about yoga on its head.
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Format:Taschenbuch
Like others have stated before me, this book is extremely well researched indeed. And that's a great thing. But keep in mind that it is NOT written in "popular" science writing style. This book is the real deal. There are quotations, dates, names and all the other landmarks of truly scientific writing that can make even the most well-written text a bit long-winded and at times hard to follow. Especially if you are unfamiliar with this type of writing you may find the book a bit tedious.
Another reason why the text is sometimes hard to follow is this: The developments the author discribes are very complex, often chronologically parallel, sometimes highly ambivalent. Diagrams or other graphic depictions of those processes would have helped immensely to keep a clear view, but unfortunately none are provided.
So, my conclulsion on this book: Highly interesting and extremely well researched. The only drop of bitterness: at times unnessessarily hard to follow. That's the reason for my 4 stars not 5.
Another reason why the text is sometimes hard to follow is this: The developments the author discribes are very complex, often chronologically parallel, sometimes highly ambivalent. Diagrams or other graphic depictions of those processes would have helped immensely to keep a clear view, but unfortunately none are provided.
So, my conclulsion on this book: Highly interesting and extremely well researched. The only drop of bitterness: at times unnessessarily hard to follow. That's the reason for my 4 stars not 5.
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I am very impressed by Singleton's book.
Contentwise it verifies, what my yoga-teacher in India in his eye-twinkling way always said about other forms of yoga: "That's not Yoga, it's Gymnastics!" ... and I am happy to wholeheartedly be able to feel safe in repeating precisely that with full conviction. Asthanga? Flow? Power? Ain't no Yoga.
But Singleton's book goes way beyond that ... and frankly, I have no idea anymore what to call what I myself practise ... ;-/
So, be encouraged & warned at the same time:
This will rock your boat.
And, that is the factor I need to stress here:
Singleton unmasks modern "Yoga" with the preciseness of a surgeon, scientifically there seems no blind spots, everything he concludes is based on seamlessly connecting facts, supposedly the reason, why the book hasn't been challenged by the "physical" styles, you'd need to unearth quite a library to challenge Singleton's brilliant work.
And all that Singleton does with no trace of sarcasm, no appearent intention to put anyone down, to be the wisecrack, simply he is the scientist wanting to find out what can be brought to light about the "origins of modern postural yoga". His comments are SO balanced, this probably impressed me most.
I am looking forward to read his next book, hopefull named: "What IS traditional Yoga", for, as mentioned above, I definitely lost orientation here and whatever it is I practice, does not seem to go back 5000 years as it so selfrighteously claims ... despite it being very efficient, but that is two different points.
Thank you, Mr. Singleton, your book will be a classic, ten copies in each university library, standard literature in still 100 years, a landmark.
Contentwise it verifies, what my yoga-teacher in India in his eye-twinkling way always said about other forms of yoga: "That's not Yoga, it's Gymnastics!" ... and I am happy to wholeheartedly be able to feel safe in repeating precisely that with full conviction. Asthanga? Flow? Power? Ain't no Yoga.
But Singleton's book goes way beyond that ... and frankly, I have no idea anymore what to call what I myself practise ... ;-/
So, be encouraged & warned at the same time:
This will rock your boat.
And, that is the factor I need to stress here:
Singleton unmasks modern "Yoga" with the preciseness of a surgeon, scientifically there seems no blind spots, everything he concludes is based on seamlessly connecting facts, supposedly the reason, why the book hasn't been challenged by the "physical" styles, you'd need to unearth quite a library to challenge Singleton's brilliant work.
And all that Singleton does with no trace of sarcasm, no appearent intention to put anyone down, to be the wisecrack, simply he is the scientist wanting to find out what can be brought to light about the "origins of modern postural yoga". His comments are SO balanced, this probably impressed me most.
I am looking forward to read his next book, hopefull named: "What IS traditional Yoga", for, as mentioned above, I definitely lost orientation here and whatever it is I practice, does not seem to go back 5000 years as it so selfrighteously claims ... despite it being very efficient, but that is two different points.
Thank you, Mr. Singleton, your book will be a classic, ten copies in each university library, standard literature in still 100 years, a landmark.
2 von 3 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
I found this book by an accident and I'm absolutely happy, that it had happend! The author writes really good and describes difficult aspects of the yoga practice and origin in a very simple way. A lot of the informations, which has been contained in this text are quite unique or hard to get.
Absolutely YES for this book!
Absolutely YES for this book!
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