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The Diversity Gap in UK Yoga

Outsider Perspectives

af Sally SJ Brown ...

Serier serie Emerald Points
Yoga is a popular activity that can offer multiple health and wellbeing benefits. In the United Kingdom, it is even recommended to NHS patients as part of the social prescribing system. Although widely viewed as inclusive and accessible, yoga participation in high-income countries is socially uneven – with significant under-representation of marginalised groups. The Diversity Gap in UK Yoga: ... Læs mere

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Yoga is a popular activity that can offer multiple health and wellbeing benefits. In the United Kingdom, it is even recommended to NHS patients as part of the social prescribing system. Although widely viewed as inclusive and accessible, yoga participation in high-income countries is socially uneven – with significant under-representation of marginalised groups. The Diversity Gap in UK Yoga:
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In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World

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Millions of people practise yoga, attracted to the mat by its promise of physical and mental benefits, social connection, and spiritual nourishment. Promoted as a way of healing the body and mind from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga may be a critique of the social order – an “anti-world” to which practitioners escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and ... Læs mere

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Millions of people practise yoga, attracted to the mat by its promise of physical and mental benefits, social connection, and spiritual nourishment. Promoted as a way of healing the body and mind from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga may be a critique of the social order – an “anti-world” to which practitioners escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and
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Decolonizing Yoga: from Critical to Cosmic Consciousness

Feminist-Informed Yoga and a Jain Way of Life

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This book was written for diasporic South Asian women who have experienced microaggression or discrimination in modern yoga spaces in Canada or abroad. Punam Mehta, Ph.D. reveals how the yoga movement in Canada has been harmful to yoga’s grounding in Jain history, to South Asian social and cultural development, and to Jain diasporic women born and raised in Canada. She argues that marginalized ... Læs mere

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This book was written for diasporic South Asian women who have experienced microaggression or discrimination in modern yoga spaces in Canada or abroad. Punam Mehta, Ph.D. reveals how the yoga movement in Canada has been harmful to yoga’s grounding in Jain history, to South Asian social and cultural development, and to Jain diasporic women born and raised in Canada. She argues that marginalized
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Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change

An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

af Ariane M. Balizet, Jacoby Ballard, Diana York Blaine, Mary Bunn, Beth S. Catlett, Kimberly Dark, Lauren Eckstrom, Jillian Ford, Thalia González, Marcelle M. Haddix, Carol Horton, Kerrie Kauer, Roopa Kaushik-Brown, Karishma Kripalani, Punam Mehta, Steffany Moonaz, Whitney Myers, Enoch H. Page, Sarah L. Schrank, Maria Velazquez, Jennifer Musial ...

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of the body. From discussions of the stereotypical yoga body to analyses of pivotal court cases, Yoga, ... Læs mere

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Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World

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