Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice

Mark Singleton
Role: Author
Written by a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia.

Mark Singleton explores the nature and origins of the most prevalent for of postural yoga practiced today and suggests that these routines derived from European bodybuilding and early 20th-century women’s gymnastic movements of Europe and America rather than from Indian tradition.

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