Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes
Chapter: 57. Can People from All Backgrounds Practise Yoga?
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.