Liberating yoga from appropriation to healing

"In the West, the practice of yoga is weighed down by years of cultural appropriation. But yoga is more than a one-hour fitness class aimed at flexibility. In Liberating Yoga, yoga teacher Harpinder Kaur Mann shows yogis a path to reclaim yoga from appropriation and recenter the ancient spiritual pr...

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Main Author: Mann, Harpinder Kaur (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Broadleaf Books, [2025]
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505 0 |a My experience of westernized Yoga -- Discovering Yoga's roots -- Yoga beyond the body -- The trauma of colonialism -- Decolonizing Yoga -- Yoga mats, Yoga pants, and expensive classes -- Am I culturally appropriating? -- Erasure and sanitization -- 200 hours : on the problems of Yoga teacher training -- On spiritual bypassing -- Definitions of Yoga : so what is Yoga, really? -- The gift that Yoga gives us -- Yoga margas (paths) -- Liberating practices -- Reclaiming ancestral practices -- Finding the way forward. 
650 0 |a Yoga  |x Philosophy. 
650 0 |a Imperialism  |x Psychological aspects. 
650 0 |a Spirituality. 
650 0 |a Healing. 
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