Category: Yoga Guru
So the technologies embedded in the yoga discourse – like meditation’ – generate experiences and outcomes for the individual (like Altered States of Consciousness and improved health), which the …
Yoga as a cultural field Symbols and culture are inseparable – they flow into each other. By focussing on the symbolic aspect of yoga we move from the individual …
In short what we are saying is that in order to understand yoga’s use-value we need to understand its symbolic-value. In order to understand symbolic-value we need to understand …
The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1981,1983) (Wikipedia link) in his very influential writings claims that under capitalism consumer commodities are increasingly acquiring mainly symbolic-value. Their initial use-value is almost …
When one person falls, it doesn’t create a chain reaction of other people falling as well.Dhanurasana Pose Yoga So independence is equally important as being together, acting as inspiration …