A History of Modern Yoga

Author: Elizabeth De Michelis
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0826487726

A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism

A History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal's intellectual circles. Get A History of Modern Yoga diet books 2013 for free.
In due course Raja Yoga, published by Vivekananda in 1896, became the seminal text of Modern Yoga largely because, the author shows, it reconfigured the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali along the lines of a then emerging New Age occultistic style of secularised and individualistically oriented religiosity.With regard to 20th century developments, this book proposes a four-fold typology of Modern Yoga comprising Modern Psychosomatic, Modern Meditational, Modern Postural and Modern Denominational forms. Iyengar Yoga, one of the most influential schools of Modern Postural Yoga, is then analyzed Check A History of Modern Yoga our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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In due course Raja Yoga, published by Vivekananda in 1896, became the seminal text of Modern Yoga largely because, the author shows, it reconfigured the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali along the lines of a then emerging New Age occultistic style of secularised and individualistically oriented religiosity Iyengar Yoga, one of the most influential schools of Modern Postural Yoga, is then analyzed

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