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21st century yoga / Culture, politics, and practice Edited by Carol Horton and Roseanne Harvey

Harvey, Roseanne (Added Author). Horton, Carol (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780615617602 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: 201p. 22 cm.
Publisher: Chicago, IL : Kleio Books, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : yoga and North American culture / Carol Horton -- Enlightenment 2.0 : the American yoga experiment / Julian Walker -- How yoga makes you pretty : the beauty myth, yoga and me / Melanie Klein -- Questioning the "body beautiful" : yoga, commercialism, and discernment / Poep Sa Frank Jude Boccio -- Bifurcated spiritualities : examining mind/body splits in the North American yoga and zen communities / Nathan Thompson -- Starved for connection : healing anorexia through yoga / Chelsea Roff -- Yoga and the 12 steps : holistic recovery from addiction / Tommy Rosen -- Modern yoga will not form a real culture until every studio can also double as a soup kitchen and other observations from the threshold between yoga and activism / Matthew Remski -- Yoga for war : the politics of the divine / Be Scofield -- Our true nature is our imagination : yoga and non-violence at the edge of the world / Michael Stone -- How yoga messed with my mind / Angela Jamison -- Afterword : the evolution of yoga and the practice of writing / Roseanne Harvey.