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Some people might say – yoga as a commodity, and so what? The issue is, that as soon as an aspect of our lives (like caring, health, security, food, …
Modernity on the other hand meant a big change in the economical relations surrounding the transfer of yoga knowledge. In late colonial India yoga teaching became a commercial product …
As popular yoga became a cultural field let us have a look into the economical forces which, hidden behind their back (as Marx would have said) formed the emerging …
The emergence of popular yoga as a cultural field A crucial part of being marginalised is that you cannot or will not take a normal 9 to 5 job. …
It is my observation that in these post-war sub-cultures there was a psychological need to be different. So these groups’ understanding of yoga – strongly coloured by romanticism and …