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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 49. Does a Yoga Teacher Need to be an Advanced Practitioner?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46391

Blurb:

The eventual aim of contemporary practice is much more likely to be longevity within rather than liberation from the body. But the more implicit assumption that is also continuous between premodern, modern and contemporary forms of yoga is less recognised. This is that mastery of the practice signifies the authority to teach others.

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