Affiliation:
1. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University
Abstract
This article presents an initial analysis of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, a variety of ‘modern postural yoga’. The article theorizes the embodied experience of a¯sana (‘yoga postures’), drawing on ethnographic research with Western practitioners in India and Australia and on the author’s own practice. Building on phenomenological and cultural theories of embodiment, it is suggested that the experience of yoga practitioners has particular somatic foundations, and that this somatic basis helps explain the cross-cultural effectiveness of yoga.
Subject
Cultural Studies,Health (social science),Social Psychology
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URL (consulted December 2005): http://www.ayri.org/
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