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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 57. Can People from All Backgrounds Practise Yoga?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46399

Blurb:

In transnational yoga, both the invocation of meaning through historical context and the full de-contextualisation of the practice from its South Asian roots are both effective business strategies rather than positions that reflect historical veracity or post-colonialism. Yoga’s embedded injustices not only concern who practises and where they practise but also how and in what form.

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