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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 25. What is the relationship between Yoga and Āyurveda?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46367

Blurb:

During the 20th century, yoga and āyurveda became closely linked as indigenous systems of promoting health and healing, united in their contrast to colonial “western” medicine. Their association became even more intimate from the 1970s onwards as global countercultures championed both yoga and alternatives to Western medicine.

Chapter Contributors

  • Suzanne Newcombe ([email protected] - shn44) 'Open University and Inform, King's College London'