21st Century Yoga

21st Century Yoga by Carol Horton

Yoga may be rooted in ancient India, but it's morphed into something new in North America today.
Precisely what that might be, however, is difficult to say. Yoga is taught everywhere from spas to prisons, and for everything from weight loss to spiritual transcendence. With its chameleon-like ability to adapt equally well to advertising, athletics, and ashrams, contemporary yoga is a fascinating phenomenon that invites investigation.
Written by experienced practitioners who are also teachers, therapists, activists, scholars, studio owners, and interfaith ministers, 21st Century Yoga is one of the first books to provide a multi-faceted examination of yoga as it actually exists in the U.S. and Canada today.

CONTENTS:
Introduction: Yoga and North American Culture - Carol Horton
Enlightenment 2.0: The American Yoga Experiment - Julian Walker
How Yoga Makes You Pretty: The Beauty Myth, Yoga and Me - Melanie Klein
Questioning the Body Beautiful Yoga, Commercialism, and Discernment - Poep Sa Frank Jude Boccio
Bifurcated Spiritualities: Examining Mind/Body Splits in the North American Yoga and Zen Communities - Nathan Thompson
Starved for Connection: Healing Anorexia Through Yoga - Chelsea Roff
Yoga and the 12 Steps: Holistic Recovery from Addiction - Tommy Rosen
Modern Yoga Will Not Form a Real Culture Until Every Studio Can Also Double as a Soup Kitchen and other observations from the threshold between yoga and activism - Matthew Remski
Yoga for War: The Politics of the Divine - Be Scofield
Our True Nature is Our Imagination: Yoga and Non-Violence at the Edge of the World - Michael Stone
How Yoga Messed With My Mind - Angela Jamison
Afterword: The Evolution of Yoga and the Practice of Writing - Roseanne Harvey

Carol Horton, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago, served on the faculty at Macalester College, and has extensive experience as a research consultant specializing in issues affecting low-income children and families. A Certified Forrest Yoga teacher, she teaches women incarcerated in the Cook County Jail with Yoga for Recovery, and at Chaturanga Holistic Fitness in Chicago. She is the author of Race and the Making of American Liberalism, and co-editor (with Roseanne Harvey) of 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics, and Practice.

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ISBN 13	9780615617602
ISBN 10	0615617603
Title	21st Century Yoga
Author	Carol Horton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kleio Books
Year published	2012-09-19
Number of pages	220
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