The Yoga Manifesto

The Yoga Manifesto
Author: Brian Dana Akers
Publisher: YogaVidya.com
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2024-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0989996697

Yoga’s glorious past, astonishing present—and breathtaking future. The Yoga Manifesto answers two questions: Why Yoga? Why now? It summarizes the very long and remarkable history of Yoga from its Indian origins to its global present, its entanglement with money, where it fits in the constellation of religions, its dialectic with science, its place in today’s society, and the bright future of Yoga.

The Yoga Manifesto

The Yoga Manifesto
Author: Nadia Gilani
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1529065127

'Raw. Vulnerable. Open. Truthful . . . This is a book that will open up the floor for even more honest conversations about the side of yoga we don't often see.' - Angie Tiwari @tiwariyoga How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged? Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga for twenty-five years. She has also worked as a yoga teacher. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation. Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success.

The Yoga Manifesto

The Yoga Manifesto
Author: Nadia Gilani
Publisher: Bluebird
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-08
Genre: Yoga
ISBN: 1529065143

'Raw. Vulnerable. Open. Truthful . . . This is a book that will open up the floor for even more honest conversations about the side of yoga we don't often see.' - Angie Tiwari @tiwariyogaHow did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged?Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga for twenty-five years. She has also worked as a yoga teacher. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working class people, or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation.Combining her own memories of how the practice has helped her with an account of its history and transformation in the modern west, Nadia creates a love letter to yoga and a passionate critique of the billion-dollar industry whose cost and inaccessibility has shut out many of those it should be helping. By turns poignant, funny, and shocking, The Yoga Manifesto excavates where the industry has gone wrong, and what can be done to save the practice from its own success.

Punk Rock Yoga Manifesto

Punk Rock Yoga Manifesto
Author: Kimberlee Stedl
Publisher: 8th Element Yoga
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2010
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780615370002

Punk Rock Yoga Manifesto: Look, Work, Accept, Transcend. The Punk Rock Yoga style was born in 2003 and has flowed across North America and into Europe. This book articulates the style's philosophy, where you will explore the teachings of yoga through a modern lens and discover how to employ its wisdom in your daily life. You will learn about Yoga with a capital "Y"-moving beyond the poses, into the realm of personal transformation. The Punk Rock Yoga Manifesto takes a direct and pragmatic approach to yoga philosophy, discussing behavioral guidelines, personal temperaments, meditation practices, energy centers, and the role of poses and breath work. This book inspires self-reflection and challenges you to look at, work on, accept, and ultimately transcend everything that restrains you from personal evolution.

CHANGING SOCIETY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES

CHANGING SOCIETY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES
Author: Dr. B. Venkata Subba Reddy & A. Jyotsna
Publisher: Horizon Books ( A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd)
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9384044482

The most common view of the relationship between social work and society seems to be the perspective that social work is an intermediary profession, acting between the individual and society. In this intermediary capacity, social work is somehow able to act in ways that are in the best interests of both the individual and society, seeking to empower the individual and to improve society. Critics of social work reject the view of social workers as neutral and objective, and see them rather as agents of social control, largely acting in ways that perpetuate existing inequalities. Social workers are, or can be, agents and catalysts of social change, as intermediaries objectively balancing the pressures of social control and social change.

The Oxford Handbook of Meditation

The Oxford Handbook of Meditation
Author: Miguel Farias
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0192536370

Meditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices and the scientific study of their effects has recently turned 50 years old. But how much do we know about them: what were they developed for and by whom? How similar or different are they, how effective can they be in changing our minds and biology, what are their social and ethical implications? The Oxford Handbook of Meditation is the most comprehensive volume published on meditation, written in accessible language by world-leading experts on the science and history of these techniques. It covers the development of meditation across the world and the varieties of its practices and experiences. It includes approaches from various disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, history, anthropology, and sociology and it explores its potential for therapeutic and social change, as well as unusual or negative effects. Edited by practitioner-researchers, this book is the ultimate guide for all interested in meditation, including teachers, clinicians, therapists, researchers, or anyone who would like to learn more about this topic.

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change

Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change
Author: Beth Berila
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-09-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498528031

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, the Body, and Embodied Social Change examines the sociopolitical tensions of contemporary yoga. Because so many yogic spaces reflect the oppressive nature of many other public spheres, the essays in this collection also examine what needs to change in order for yoga to truly live up to its liberatory potential, from the blogosphere around Black women’s health to the creation of queer and trans yoga classes to the healing potential of yoga for people living with chronic illness or trauma. While many of these conversations are emerging in the broader public sphere, few have made their way into academic scholarship. This book changes all that. The essays in this anthology interrogate yoga as it is portrayed in the media, yoga spaces, and yoga as it is integrated in education, the law, and concepts of health to examine who is included and who is excluded from yoga in the West. The result is a thoughtful analysis of the possibilities and the limitations of yoga for feminist social transformation.

Selling Yoga

Selling Yoga
Author: Andrea R. Jain
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 019939024X

Selling Yoga looks at how modern yoga developed into the self-developmental products and services that are widely consumed across the world today.

Yoga in Practice

Yoga in Practice
Author: David Gordon White
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2012
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0691140863

An anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India, greater Asia, and the West. Focuses on the lived experiences in the many world of yoga.

Bhakti - the Yoga of Love

Bhakti - the Yoga of Love
Author: Samrat Schmiem Kumar
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2010
Genre: Peace (Philosophy)
ISBN: 3643501307

Transrational Peaces is a new approach in contemporary Peace Research. It considers the rational and the spiritual sphere of human perception to be essential for the understanding of peace. In this book the Austrian-Indian researcher Samrat Schmiem Kumar presents the Indian tradition of Bhakti Yoga, and demonstrates the value of Indian philosophy for contemporary discussions on peace. In the philosophy of Bhakti, life is a playful and aesthetic relationship between human and the cosmos. The book opens the field of Peace Studies beyond the well-known horizons of the discipline in Europe and the United States.